20:43
PREHISTORIC PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OF STOMATOLOGISTS, TOO
US archaeologists have discovered the earliest yet evidence of stomatology advances in the dawn of human civilization. Man-made tiny holes have been found in molars of several humans who lived 8,000-9,000 years ago in the area currently incorporated in Pakistan. The holes are believed to have been bored to soothe tooth pain. More detail...

19:51
JAIL–BREAKERS STILL NOT FOUND
“This is an awful person who is not supposed to be free…There has not been a more heinous crime for all the years of my work”. These are the words about Vladimir Zhelezoglo - one the prisoners who has recently escaped from the Moscow jail More detail...

16:10
ANDREI CHERKASOV: NEW TURNS IN NOTORIOUS CASE OF NADEZHDA FRATTI
Nadezhda Fratti is the former citizen of the town of Volzhsky (close to the city of Volgograd) but currently she is an Italian citizen. Fratti’s business was connected with children-orphans. The orphans were sent to Italian families – the ones which agreed to adopt them More detail...

15:43
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14:55
VITAMIN C KILLS SMOKERS
Cigarettes and vitamin C are incompatible: big doses of this vitamin could be dangerous for smokers. More detail...

14:24
CRIMINALS WHO ESCAPED FROM “BUTYRKA” PRISON NOT DETAINED YET
In Moscow and in Moscow region three criminals still are being searched for who escaped yesterday from Butyrskaya prison in Moscow. It must be remembered, that the three prisoners sentenced to death made a hole in their cell’s bottom and escaped. More detail...

13:44
“MAD COW” DISEASE IN UKRAINE
The case of “mad cow” disease or spongiform encephalitis – a dangerous disease whose epidemic swept over Europe – has been registered in Ukraine. Vet doctors established the fact of disease in cow from Kosmachiv village in Rovno region. More detail...

13:00
VIKTOR TIKHONOV REFUSED TO TELL TO THE COURT ABOUT HIS ATTEMPT AT AMAN TULEEV
Today, at the Novosibirsk regional court’s sitting, Viktor Tikhonov accused of attempt at Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleev refused to give evidences. He alleged his bad health condition. By the court’s decision, ambulance was called to examine the defendant. More detail...

12:00
RAN HACOHEN: IARAEL'S IDEOLOGY OF OCCUPATION
In an excellent recent article, leading Palestinian intellectual Edward Said cites the "astounding result" of a poll conducted among US citizens by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, according to which less than three or four percent of the sample had any idea that there was an Israeli occupation. More detail...

11:30
ANDREI LUBENSKI: 100 DAYS OF ANATOLI KINAKH’S GOVERNMENT
Yesterday Ukraine celebrated 100 days of government of Anatoli Kinakh who took the place of Ukrainian prime-minister Victor Yuschenko on May 29. There were not any official actions on this occasion. The government seems not attach importance to these 100 days. More detail...

11:04
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION IN THE BALTIC?
As NATO sets its eyes on Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, Russia asks why. Pravda.Ru answers. More detail...

11:03
FRANCE: CHEVENEMENT BACK FROM THE DEAD TO HAUNT JOSPIN
Jean-Pierre Chevenement arises in France as the Third Way, the alternative to Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin for the forthcoming Presidential elections in France next year. More detail...

11:02
AIDS – A THIRD OF AFRICA’S CHILDREN TO BE ORPHANS
Shocking statistics reveal that by 2010, up to 35% of Africa’s children could be rendered orphans through the scourge of AIDS. More detail...

10:00
SASCHA MATUSZAK: CHINA'S INTERNET GENERATION
In today's China, there is a Internet-bar on every street corner. If the bar isn't full, then it must be lunchtime or the Chinese basketball team must be busy beating the Americans. Millions of Chinese pay 2 yuan an hour to chat over OICQ, listen to music, watch Hong Kong movies, search for English essays to cop off as their own or slaughter each other in some video game. More detail...

21:10
THREE MURDERERS SENTENCED TO DEATH ESCAPED FROM “BUTYRKA” PRISON
From the well known Butyrskaya prison in Moscow three dangerous criminals have escaped sentenced to the death penalty. This morning at 7:00 a.m. while checking prison cells the worker of Main Execution Office of Justice Ministry of Russia did not find the three of prisoners. Later it became clear the criminals made a hole in the cell’s bottom and escaped. More detail...

20:05
ROMAN FOMIN: DANISH JUSTICE FAILED TO REACH ISRAELI AMBASSADOR
The scandal around Israeli ambassador Carmi Gillon is not going to settle down soon in Denmark. The police of Copenhagen refused to arrest the former chief of the Israeli security service. This attempt to arrest the head of the foreign diplomatic mission is a unique incident in the history of the Danish kingdom More detail...

20:00
SRDJA TRIFKOVIC: NATO EXPANSION THREATENS EUROPEAN PEACE
When Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin finished their second meeting, at the end of the G8 summit in Genoa last month, American proponents of the missile defense plan and of NATO’s further expansion claimed a victory for their policies. More detail...

19:10
ROMAN FOMIN: ANCARA DISSATISFIED WITH SWITZERLAND. TURKISH AUTHORITIES NEVER ADMITTED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
The Swiss court continues hearing the case caused by old events. It is not excluded, that after pronouncing the verdict Swiss text books of history will be reedited. The question is about genocide against Armenian nation that was committing by Ottoman Empire’s authorities in 1915-1923, as a result from 1 to 1,5 million people died in Armenian lands included in the Turkish state. More detail...

19:01
ARTUR DAN: ONLY SPECIALLY SELECTED PEOPLE MAY SHOW UP AT IRKUTSK GOVERNOR’S INAUGURATION
Irkutsk governor’s inauguration is to take place on September 7. Two previous ceremonies took place in the hall of the Regional House of Councils which could take 300 people in. However the governor elect Boris Govorin did not like the hall – he believed it was not good for the ceremony of his own inauguration More detail...

18:30
CHRIS DELISO: NATO'S MACEDONIAN PHRASE-BOOK
Since its beginnings in February, the crisis in Macedonia has presented the pro-interventionist Western media with a significant challenge: that is, how to justify acting against a democratic and peaceful country, one that had neither a malevolent dictator nor any serious oppression to recommend it for opprobrium. More detail...

17:33
ANTON PONOMAREV: MOSCOW PREFERS BEEF TO BULLFIGHT
There will be no Portuguese corrida extravaganza in Moscow. The organizers of the arrangement did not take this issue into account – there is a lot to see in Moscow besides. However there is a lack of meat in the capital, beef that is More detail...

17:31
ONE MORE HUMAN BEING KILLED BY NIKOLAI SOLTYS
This fact became known yesterday. Now Prosecutor General’s Office of Sacramento accuses the 27-year-old Ukrainian emigrant of committing not six but seven murders. More detail...

16:47
U.S. AND GREAT BRITAIN START NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST IRAQ
Last night Air Forces of the USA and of Great Britain started to bomb Iraq’s territory again. According to Pentagon’s report, military objects were attacked in zone forbidden for Iraqi aviation. The action was an answer to threatening activities of Iraqi air-raid defence. More detail...

16:00
SHARKS CELEBRATE LABOUR DAY WITH EATING TWO RUSSIANS
This Monday, two Russians were attacked by sharks in Outer Banks health resort area in North Carolina, the American press reports. 28-year-old Sergei Zalukaev and 23-year-old Natalya Slobonskaya came there from Virginia State together with their friends from to spend holidays (Labour Day). More detail...

14:08
LUKASHENKO: “YUGOSLAV SCENARIO WON’T MATERIALIZE”
A pre-term voting started yesterday in Belarus to elect the republic of Belarus's president (the voting is due to last for 5 days, September 4th-8th). Voting stations have opened all over Belarus and also in foreign countries. More detail...

13:07
COLOMBIA’S REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES DISPLEASED WITH OUR CORRESPONDENT’S ARTICLE
“We have read your article “Colombian military fight with armed forces” very attentively. Maybe, due to our poor knowledge of the condition of the leftwing press in Russia, we thought your newspaper was the successor of that Soviet Pravda (are we mistaken?). But if it is so, we were surprised to see that your report of the latest developments in Colombia was based exclusively on official sources More detail...

12:04
NATO IN COURT AS DEL PONTE IS HUMILIATED IN BELGRADE
The representatives of Yugoslavs killed by the illegal NATO bombing of the Serbian Television station have been given legal aid to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights, while the chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal receives a diplomatic slap in the face in Belgrade. More detail...

11:03
US TERRORISM IN BELARUS
Amazing revelations have been made by the British daily “The Times”, which claims in an article on 2001.09.03 that the USA is following a policy in Belarus along the same lines as the support given to the “Contras” in Nicaragua in the 1980s. More detail...

10:13
SKIRMISH IN PRISTINA: RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS WOUNDED
News agencies report of an incident in Pristina, the capital city of the Kosovo province. As a result, Russian peacekeepers from the KFOR forces have been wounded. KFOR spokesman Tim Zillessen is quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying that one serviceman was injured, and that he has been hospitalized. More detail...

09:02
...AND CLOSE THE DOOR BEHIND YOU!!
The United States of America, its lap-dog Israel obediently following at its heels, walked out of the World Conference on Racism, in a tamper tantrum more befitting of a three-year-old child than the self-proclaimed world power that this country purports to be More detail...