From Moscow to St. Petersburg via rail transportation there are 649.7 kilometers. Russia will receive high-speed railway line Moscow – St. Petersburg in 2018. According to experts, the price of a one-way ticket for a high-speed train could reach $100. The expected passenger traffic is forecast at 12.8 million passengers a year, and the construction cost of the line... 

Nokia is to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2012. Mobile phone maker Nokia to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide from its 65,000-strong workforce – including 700 in the UK Nokia, once indisputably the world’s largest mobile phone company, will lay off 4,000 people worldwide by the end of next year as it attempts to cut costs after falling behind rivals in the smartphone... 

A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm from selling its contraband to willing customers in the Washington area. The product in question: unpasteurized milk. It’s... 

Sarkozy and Berlusconi are demanding European deportation pacts with the countries of revolutionary north Africa to send migrants home. Sarkozy and Berlusconi want passport-free travel within the EU suspended as north African migrants flee north. France and Italy have thrown down the gauntlet over Europe’s system of passport-free travel, saying a crisis of immigration... 

People in Saudi Arabia have taken to the streets to protest against the violent Saudi-backed crackdown on Bahraini anti-government protesters. Demonstrators in the eastern city of Qatif denounced Riyadh for backing Bahraini forces in destruction of mosques and holy sites, Press TV reported on Friday. On March 13, Saudi Arabia deployed military forces in Bahrain upon... 

Severe tornadoes in the US have left at least 313 people dead across several central and southern states. A massive spring storm system tearing through central and southern United States, has left over 300 people dead across nine states, emergency officials say. At least 204 people died in the State of Alabama alone, many in Tuscaloosa, a city of over 83,000 where a massive... 

Click on the image to enlarge it Wow this is some find! It was sent to us from Matteo Ianneo in Italy. Bravo. Sure looks like a face to me. The coordinates, Latitude 33°12’29.82″N, Longitude 12°55’51.21″W, are confirmed and are found in the Google map of Mars. Forty-six year old Ianneo says he is passionate about the riddles of Mars. He is... 

The debate regarding officially allowing polygamy in Russia has been going on for years. The main arguments in favor of polygamy are the existing families with multiple wives, whose position is now not protected by law, as well as shortage of men. Perhaps the fate of the third or fourth wife is better than being alone? Peculiarities of life in a polygamous family have... 

There are so many things wrong with the alleged “long form” of Barak Obama’s birth certificate, that Alex Jones has temporarily concluded that this whole “birther” thing has all been contrived to serve as a distraction or side show from real issues. “They couldn’t possibly think we’re this stupid.” My response to... 

RIRA terrorists. The internal battle between dissident terror gangs intensified yesterday as the Real IRA threatened to kill young nationalists who join the PSNI, and declared Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to the Republic an “insult”. The renegades are now fighting a ‘media war’ in a bid to establish their group as the leading terror faction. The... 

On April 26 the world remembered the Chernobyl disaster. The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident came amid another nuclear tragedy, this time in Japan. What is the situation in Fukushima now, after over a month after the accident? Can we draw parallels with the Chernobyl disaster? Is there a future for nuclear energy after the accident? Vladimir Khrustalev, an... 

While the EU forces France to accept more and more immigrants, the country has already had enough, with anti-ethnic sentiments growing every year, believes Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right party National Front. Marine follows the political line of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, who is famous in France and all over the world for his... 

Avi Yanai (right) got only 18 years for ruining the lives of "hundreds of women". That means a few months for each life ruined. A few hours or days for every rape these women experienced. A military court in Russia has sentenced an Israeli citizen to only 18 years in prison for running a vast network of female trafficking in the Middle East and Europe. Aside... 

THE women rapists alleged to be behind a spat of sexual attacks on men around the country struck again last Wednesday when they picked up a man in Harare and took turns to rape him near Chegutu, police have said. Mashonaland West provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Clemence Mabgweazara, told the state-run Herald newspaper that a report regarding the alleged attack,... 

The US is at the risk of a war with Russia and China as its main objective behind engineering the Libyan war and Syrian unrest is to remove the two world powers out of the Mediterranean, a former US official warns. “Washington is all for invading against Libya and is putting more and more pressure to intervene in Syria because we want to … clear China and Russia...