The new Superman became a real headache for the bosses of the film industry - they did not like the outstanding sizes of its genital organs. In Hollywood, they are afraid that the Brandon Ruth dressed in a tight -fitting suit of the superhero can shock the audience with a monstrous convexity in an intimate place - the appearance of the figure of Superman in profile seemed to be terrifying.

Russian tourists will now be able to travel to Thailand without visas. The intergovernmental agreement on facilitating the visa regime of the two countries signed on Tuesday in the capital of Malaysia Kuala-Lumpur Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Thailand Sergey Lavrov and Kantati Sudhamonghon after negotiations by Vladimir Putin with Thailand Thailand Taxin Chinavat.

On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected the request for the mercy of the Tuki Stanley's death of Williams. After midnight, the legendary founder of one of the most bloody gangs of Los Angeles Crips will be made a deadly injection. The Supreme Court was the last hope of Tuki for salvation, but there was no miracle. As the authorities of the prison of San Kventin plan, on Tuesday at 00:01 local time he will be executed, CNN reports.

The fears that the cloud of toxic substances formed after the explosion in the oil storage in the Hurtfordshire County may erupt with sediment in the southeast of England, including over London and in rural areas, in the counties of Wiltshire and Kent, decreased. This happened due to the combination of increased atmospheric pressure and heroic efforts made by firefighters, the British newspaper The Guardian writes on Tuesday.

Immediately about the two undertakings of the Russian military became known to citizens of the Russian Federation in the last days of the outgoing year. By the New Year, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will undergo both structural and personnel changes. Today, the Kommersant newspaper writes about the new draft amendments to the Law "On Military Duties", which will reduce the grounds for the release and delay from the draft.

In the headquarters of the strategic missile forces (Strategic Missile Forces), which is located in Vlasikha near Moscow, city phones were partially disconnected. "Since yesterday evening, many phones with city numbers have not been working both in the headquarters and in the military town due to a technical failure," the representative of the Strategic Missile Forces told Interfax on Tuesday.

In the process of evolution, a person learned to postpone pounds on hungry times, but there is no biological mechanism of weight loss. On the eve of the New Year holidays, scientists pay attention to the fact that many decide to give themselves a concess of holidays, and from the New Year to lead a healthy lifestyle, and warn against this wrong approach. They give reason to think that if in the future you have a diet, before its beginning you are prone to excesses.

More than half of Russians consider their country the leader of democratic development in the post -Soviet space. According to the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ), 52% of citizens of the Russian Federation are considered to be a democratic country to one degree or another. At the same time, 33% of citizens consider Russia far from democracy.

Syentologists of Surgut decided to achieve registration of their religious association through the European Court of Human Rights, submitting an appropriate statement, the head of the department for working with national and religious associations of the Surgut administration Tamara Gurenkov told the Interfax agency today.

In Latvia, a former employee of the MGB (predecessor of the KGB) veteran of the Great Patriotic War Nikolai Larionov, who died a month ago at the age of 84, was convicted. The Supreme Court upheld on Tuesday, the verdict of a lower court of 2003. Then the veteran was sentenced to five years in prison "for genocide" of the Latvian population, as he took part in the deportations of 1949, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Board of Directors of Rosneft can be headed by a close friend of George Bush and former US Minister Donald Evans . This post was offered to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin. If the proposal is accepted by Donald Evans, one of the largest state -owned companies in Russia will be headed for the first time a foreigner.

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at 14:55 local time (5:55 in Moscow), an explosion occurred on one of the herald metals collection points, while one person died on the spot, the other died in the hospital after 20 minutes.

The board of seven judges of the Supreme Court of the Lithuania on Tuesday evening announced an acquittal of the ex-president of Lithuania, Rolandas Paxas , the press service of the Supreme Court told Interfax. Earlier it was reported that the Lithuanian Court of Appeal more than six months ago canceled the acquittal of Paxas, issued in October 2004 by the Vilnius District Court.

US President George Bush read the book of Edward Radzinsky, Alexander II. The Last Great Tsar, and sent him a pen as a gift. “He (Bush) wrote to me a very nice letter and sent a charming gift that the writers should be sent: a fountain pen with a golden pen and with his autograph on it. I think that he read seriously,” Radzinsky told reporters to the presentation of his book on Monday in the Russian ambassador’s residence to the USA.

The Pope Benedict XVI addressed today to the governments of all countries with a call to completely abandon military spending. He bitterly notes the constantly growing expenses for weapons, as well as an increase in the production and trade of weapons, which in 2004 were equivalent to the total GDP of sixty of the poorest country in the world.