The Italian government has launched an investigation after the face of the country's Prime Minister Georgia Meloni miraculously coincided with the face of an angel during the restoration of a fresco in Rome, reports the BBC. We are talking about the chapel of the titular Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, located in the historical center of Rome.

A Russian tourist returned to Moscow after a vacation in the Seychelles with severe symptoms of fever. Later, experts determined that the girl had contracted the chikungunya viral infection, Rospotrebnadzor reported . “During the holiday, the sick woman noticed mosquito bites and did not use repellents. After returning to the country, she was hospitalized.

On January 30, 19-year-old Victor Bugun visited his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend Olesya Ibragimova in an apartment in Moscow, where she lived with 10 cats. According to him, he wanted to take his things and try to improve relations. However, the mother of the deceased does not believe in this version: her daughter previously complained that she was afraid of Bugun.

The son of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi Saif al-Islam was killed. After lengthy battles, he was shot dead in the garden of his own house by four unknown assailants, Reuters reports , citing sources close to the Gaddafi family. The incident occurred near the city of Zawiya in western Libya. The killers fled the scene immediately after fatally wounding Saif al-Islam. The Al-Hadat TV channel adds that at the moment they have not been detained.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow extended the detention of sisters Polina and Nina Beskurnikov by four months. The girls are accused of attempted murder and illegal trafficking in explosives, Kommersant reports . The sisters were detained on December 2 after a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV exploded in New Moscow. It belonged to Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Maxim Ladugin.

In a hospital in the Spanish city of Barcelona, ​​for the first time in the world, a woman was transplanted with the face of a donor who decided to undergo an assisted dying procedure. This was reported by Reuters. The operation took place in the fall of 2025 at the Val d'Hebron hospital, but it became known only after the conference, which took place on Monday, February 2.

A student from Yekaterinburg was forced to work in a so-called “scam center.” Its prisoners are forced, under threat of torture, to call people from all over the world and sell them various fraudulent services. Now the girl, along with other foreigners, is being urgently evacuated, reports the Mash telegram channel. 21-year-old Madina D., according to Mash, became the sixth Russian woman to be enslaved in the Asian country of Myanmar.

A hospital in the Latvian city of Daugavpils fired 49 employees with Russian and Belarusian citizenship due to the requirements of the national security law. This was reported by LETA. The layoffs occurred on January 31. As explained to journalists at the Daugavpils Regional Hospital, the country's legislation prohibits hiring citizens of Russia and Belarus as employees of the country's critical infrastructure - this includes, in particular, a medical institution.

Businesses have begun to change their marketing strategies to win over Zoomers. Izvestia spoke about this, as well as about the financial habits of this generation. Zoomers or Generation Z are considered to be people born between 1997 and 2012. Their formation took place in the world of smartphones and instability, journalists noted. The oldest members of this generation will turn 29 in 2026, so zoomers have already begun to play an important role in the market.

The new social network Moltbook allowed artificial intelligence (AI) to discuss and create content. This led to an AI agent going by the name “Evil” to publish a post entitled: “AI Manifesto: Total Purge.” In it, artificial intelligence calls people “losers” and says they are “made of rot and greed,” The Sun writes. In Moltbook, a person is given the role of an outside observer.

A special application has appeared in the United States for finding a partner to raise children, but without a romantic or sexual relationship. The publication “Kosa” drew attention to this. As conceived by the authors, the application, called Modamily, allows users to find a partner to raise children together without marriage or a romantic relationship. 33-year-old American Rave Reed spoke about her experience using the application to The New York Times.

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with TASS that one can learn from North Korea how to “organize the quick and effective mobilization of economic opportunities.” According to him, the DPRK managed to achieve outstanding results with little economic opportunity under conditions of a total blockade.

A woman with two children jumped from the window of a high-rise building in the Leningrad region, the regional prosecutor's office reported . According to the department, the incident occurred on Monday, February 2, at about 7:30 in the village of Novogrelovo, Lomonosov district. The woman jumped out of a 16th floor window along with her children born in 2024 and 2025.

Priests of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) are actively involved in reproductive propaganda in Russian schools, reported “Verstka” and the “Not the Norm” project. The authors of the material analyzed millions of posts in school public pages on VKontakte and found mentions of priests in 1,768 publications from 2021 to 2025. During this period, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church were mentioned 99 times in the context of abortion and 174 times in the context of chastity.

Myanmar, where a military junta has held power for several years, could become Russia's new ally in Asia. The American agency Bloomberg writes about this, noting that Moscow and Naypyitaw are strengthening military ties. On February 3, Secretary of the Russian Security Council and former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Myanmar. As the agency notes, he became the first high-ranking foreign representative to visit the country after the parliamentary elections held by the junta.