
Body image, not menopause, causes lack of desire
Women who lose their sexual desire as they age may not be the victims of hormonal changes but may be reacting to their own body image, U.S. researchers reported.

Women who lose their sexual desire as they age may not be the victims of hormonal changes but may be reacting to their own body image, U.S. researchers reported.

Many artists have muses, and for Serge Gainsbourg, the French musician-composer-writer-director of Russian-Jewish extraction, she was British actress and singer Jane Birkin.

Russian producer Alexey Balabanov finished shooting of a melodrama "It doesn`t hurt me".

LOS ANGELES - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the rumored Hollywood paramours who co-starred in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," led the field of People`s Choice Award contenders announced on Thursday with three nominations each.

The President’s direct communication with Ukrainian people has turned out a good tradition.

Moldavian Ministry of Education cancelled the subject "Sex upbringing" at schools.

Scientists have identified another hormone involved in regulating hunger. Obestatin joins a raft of other hormones which can boost or suppress a person`s appetite.

A group of German and Russian doctors performed a unique operation in the Russian Research Center of Surgery. Two artificial ventricles were implanted to the heart of a 54-year-old patient

Online video games are one of the biggest growth areas in interactive entertainment. Role playing game World of Warcraft sold almost 400,000 copies in two days when it went on sale in Europe.

MOSCOW, November 11 - Dilapidating standardized five-story apartment blocks that mushroomed in Moscow and other Soviet cities during the rule of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as instruments of solving the knotty housing problem will be totally replaced by new houses by the year 2010, Moscow’s Deputy Mayor Vladimir Ressin told reporters Thursday.

Avraam Russo and his surroundings have been involved in seven car accidents over several months.

VLADIVOSTOK, November 11 -- Dealers who sell used foreign-made cars have staged an action of protest in Vladivostok again.

Barcelona - The 13th international festival of erotic film FICEB-2005 came to the end.

November 11 - Two men suspected of being involved in a terrorist attack on the Russian North Caucasus city of Nalchik last month were detained early Friday by law enforcement agencies in the far-eastern city of Chita, a local Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Khanty-Mansysk, November 11 - the fifth festival of dramatic art, named "Sea-gull" starts on Friday.

The so-called Italian strike - when workers do not leave their working places even if bosses order them to do so - is scheduled for this week if last Wednesday`s action fails.

A Malaysian city is introducing a curfew for online gamers in a bid to stem a rise in the number of addicts.

KIEV, November 11 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has urged all the fellow-Ukrainians to celebrate the forthcoming anniversary of the ‘orange revolution,’ which falls on November 22 according to the new political calendar, as a "feast of freedom on Ukrainian land."

A maniac with a syringe continues to terrorize citizens of Ekaterinburg.

Immigrants inundate Russia. It would be a nightmare to see ethnic groups from the North Caucasus and Central Asia fight the Chinese over the domination areas in Central Siberia

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Mehriban Aliyeva has a new hat to wear this week, and it`s not from Paris.

Russia will have the most liberal law on immigration in the event the amendments are approved

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, November 11 -- Cyclones with heavy rain and strong wind closed elementary schools and airports on the Kamchatka Peninsula on Friday.

The bureaucracy has emerged as a new political class with its own values and ways of life, and bureaucrats themselves acknowledge that they put their own interests above the public good, according to a study presented by a group of sociologists.

A group of Russian artists shocked with the young girl`s brutality initiated the making of a monument to the killed dog