The number of young men using Viagra has been increasing three times since it appeared on the market in 1998, the article published on Thursday in the journal International Journal of Impotence Research said. The study conducted by Express Scripts, which studies the pharmaceutical market, is first devoted to trends associated with the use of Viagra.

In the XVII century, educated people in Central Europe could still communicate with each other in Latin. But by the middle of the 19th century, the most convenient for travelers became German, which was spoke of the Habsburgs, who ruled the Hungarians, Czechs and other peoples. A little over a century passed, and Russian became the dominant language. In the XXI century, the new language of the region comes from the educational system up, and from the business and political elite down.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry today sent a note of protest to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in connection with violation of the country's airspace, according to the official Tbilisi, by the Russian military aircraft in the Tskhinvalsky region. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Foreign Ministry of Georgia.

Modern women have sex much less than 50 years ago. This conclusion was reached by British researchers. The grandmothers of the current young young ladies devoted much more time to sex than their busy granddaughters do. In the modern world, according to scientists, more lonely women who put work and career in the first place. For them, most often, a love of love is at one of the last places in terms of significance.

The US $ 140 million earned 50 of the highest paid Russian athletes for the 2003/04 season, Sovetsky Sport reports with reference to the Rating of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine . The vast majority in the ranking are hockey players - there are 39 of them. Also in the list of 6 tennis players and tennis players, 4 football players and 1 basketball player.

Madonna, as it became known, spent $ 30 million in order to open the Kabbalah school in New York. The school, which will be called Kabbalist Grammar School for Children (Kabbalistic secondary school for children), abbreviated K School, children, starting from 5 years old, will be taught an ancient Hebrew mystical teaching. According to the source close to the star, this school was a long -standing dream of Madonna.

Near Khabarovsk near the gas station, Nefteproduct CJSC, a combat 120-mm mine and 14 fuses were found. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District "Interfax" on Friday reported that the arsenal was discovered by police officers in a bag of sugar in a roadside cuet. The origin of ammunition is currently being clarified.

More than 20 million pounds ($ 37 million) were won by a 58-year-old resident of Northern Ireland Iris Jeffrey in the lottery. As announced today, this is a record gain in the ten -year history of the British National Lottery, which fell on one ticket. The message about such a big luck was a real shock for Jeffrey, in which in April this year, doctors found a cancer tumor. It is currently undergoing an intensive chemotherapy.

In Krasnoyarsk, a verdict was sentenced to a man who tried to kill his son. On August 4, the Achinsky Interdistrict Court sentenced Dmitry Pugin to 13 years in prison in a maximum security penal colony for attempting to kill a two -year -old son. The crime occurred on November 29, 2003. As it turned out during the investigation, before that Dmitry Pugin systematically tortured his wife and son. The wife, unable to withstand the beatings of her husband, moved to live with her parents.

In Moscow, the provision of political asylum in the United States to the representative of Chechen separatists Ilyas Akhmadov as a manifestation of "double standards". "We cannot but consider the decision to provide Ilyas Akhmadov in the United States, differently as an obvious manifestation of double standards in the fight against terrorism," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Japan strengthened world leadership in terms of gold and foreign exchange reserves, the value of which reached $ 819.2 billion. In July, the Ministry of Finance reported today, stocks were replenished by 1.25 billion. Thus, according to this indicator, Tokyo has been holding the palm of the championship for 56 months in a row, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Turkish police seized the unique copy of the Holy Book of the Jews from historical values. As it became known on Friday, the 17-meter Torah, made on the skin of the Gazelle, was confiscated as a result of a special operation of employees of the department for combating organized crime and smuggling. The police who worked under the guise of potential buyers contacted the smugglers and at the meeting held in the center of Ankara, detained three people on the eve of the red -handed.

Museums of Greek cities where the Olympics will be held, from August 9 to a special "Olympic" schedule. According to the Greek media reported on Friday, the corresponding agreement was reached between the Ministry of Culture of Greece and the trade union of museum workers. In August, in Athens, Patra, Thessaloniki, Iraklion and Hair, where games will be held, museums will work until 20:30, and in September - until 20:00, RIA Novosti reports.

A strong forest fire in the Udorsky district of the Komi Republic, which threatened the village of Pys , is localized. There are no dangers for residents who were previously evacuated to the banks of the Mezen River. "At present, people are returning to their homes, but the male population, together with firefighters, continues to participate in extinguishing fire," the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies told Interfax.

Residents of Rome celebrated on the eve of the traditional holiday in honor of the founding of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Majore - one of the largest Catholic churches of the Italian capital, NTV reports. A beautiful legend is associated with the history of its construction, which tells that in August 352, the Deva Mary, who ordered him to build a temple in the place in Rome, where the next day, was snowing, in honor of her.