The average duration of pregnancy in the United States is 39 weeks, which is one week shorter than the traditional period. Such conclusions were come to the MARCH of DIMES, summary of the 10-year observation of American women, came to assistance to the Children of March of Dimes . According to the results of the study published in Eurekalert , from 1992 to 2002, the number of pregnancies lasting more than 40 weeks decreased by 21%.

The incidence of influenza and SARS in St. Petersburg "exceeded the established epidemic threshold." This was reported on Friday in the territorial department of Rospotrebnadzor in the city on the Neva. Epidemiologists have clarified, with a threshold value of 9 thousand by the influenza of Petersburgers, 12 thousand were registered for a day for medical assistance. "For example, the incidence exceeded threshold values ​​by almost 180%," the ITAR -TASSI National Center for IITASA quotes.

The Austrian Republic has established the production of T -shirts with the inscription "Austria is not a country of kangaroo!" These T -shirts are intended exclusively for foreign tourists.

A survey dedicated to the attitude of Israeli Jews to the Arab fellow citizens revealed the fact of the widespread spread of racist views: many of them advocate segregation and politics that encouraging the Arabs to leave the country. This survey was conducted by the authoritative Israeli organization Geocartographia for the Center for Combating Racism, founded by scientists - Israeli Arabs writes The Guardian on Friday.

The large -scale tour of the ballet troupe and the orchestra of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater will be held in four cities of Great Britain from March 28 to April 22. The Bolshoi Theater holds a tour in the UK for the 17th time. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the theater on Friday, performances will be held in Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham and Southampton.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a bill on Friday on Friday, which prohibits persons under 18 years of age to play gambling and conclude a bet. It is also proposed to eliminate the slot machines available for minors on the streets, in the subway and stores.

Swiss Stefan Lambiel for the second time became the world champion in figure skating. Lambiel won the lonelines competition at the world championship in the Canadian Kalgary . In total for a short and arbitrary program, the skater scored 274.22 points. The Swiss won his first golden award of the World Cup last year in Moscow, RIA Novosti recalls.

Russian Waluev will hold his first protection champion WBA in heavyweight. This date was officially confirmed by the boxer promoter, reports Sovetsky Sport with reference to Sport.ard.de. The name of the rival Valuev is not yet known. It is possible that Nikolai will meet with Owen Bek, who had previously read the Russian to rivals for the first protection of the title. “I am again in shape and am ready to reach the ring.

The film with the participation of Tom Hanks will be released in May, but now there are more and more messages (often scandalous) related to Dan Vinci's code. The last news came from England: the monk under the impression of this book committed suicide. On the eve of the Italian La Repubblica (full text - on the website inopressa.ru ). The report from the vague Albion said that in October last year, Abbot Alena Riz committed sunset in Svansi.

In one of the hospitals of Ulyanovsk, a 20-year-old resident of the Leninsky district of the city Viktor Kushlyantsev died, who received a traumatic brain injury during a mass fight between two youth groups on March 19. Thus, the number of victims of the fight increased to three people. Earlier it was reported that during the fight, the 18-year-old and 21-year-old residents of the Leninsky and Zavolzhsky districts of Ulyanovsk were killed.

After the Cold War, the USA and Russia became partners, and nevertheless, this does not prevent both countries from conducting active intelligence activities against each other. Russia is trying to steal military technologies and collect compromising evidence for politicians. According to American counterintelligence, today Russia is conducting the same active intelligence against the United States as during the USSR, the American newspaper The Baltimore Sun writes.

The intervention in the internal affairs of Afghanistan called the statements of Western politicians on the issue of Afghan, who adopted Christianity, a judge, a leading case, Abdula Rahman. Judge Ansaralla Moulavi-Zade was told to reporters in Kabul, today Iranian information agency Irna. "This is a clear intervention in the internal affairs of our country and Afghan proceedings," Moulavi -Zayde said.

With global warming, the sea level will increase faster than before, writes The Times . According to a study published in Science, dozens of cities in the world can be flooded by 2100. The first work, where computer models of temperature increase are combined with data on the climate of the distant past, demonstrated that sea level can rise six meters by 2100, pose a threat to millions of people.

The government of Indonesia revoked its ambassador in Australia in response to the decision of the Australian authorities the other day to provide temporary visas to 42 Papuasam, who fled from Indonesia. The Indonesia Government stated that it was deeply displeased with this decision. It published a sharp statement and withdrew the ambassador, Hamzu Tayaba, to Jakarta for consultations, ABC Online reports.

In the UK, a 15-year-old boy was found guilty of raping four primary school students in one of the Salford parks. At the time of the crime, he was 14. Having seen hard porn, he lured the girls from the swing and forced them to perform sexual intercourse with him. This happened last summer. According to the investigation, a boy whose name is not called in the months preceding the crime, behaved aggressively.