In a state of pregnancy, women can walk normally and stand without lying down and not throwing themselves back, since their spine is arranged differently than male. Scientists from the USA are engaged in a serious study on this topic, writes New Scientist . As it turned out, these differences arose at the time when our ancestors switched from walking on all fours to upset.

The leadership of the Moscow Football Club of CSKA denied information about the transition to the Italian "Inter" of the Brazilian football player Daniel Carwalya. The day before, there were reports that Karvali agreed on the transition to Inter , conducted a medical examination, and officially the contract would sign the contract in early January, with the opening of the European transfer window.

The American specialized Dog Cars website has been a rating of the best "dog" cars in 2007. Among the criteria, according to which the jury evaluated cars, were such as, for example, easily cleaning covers of the salon floor, ease of loading animals and a spacious spacious trunk. According to Cardriver.ru , the most judicial vote was received by Honda Element . She turned out to be the best among all the evaluated cars.

The negotiations of Russian presidents Vladimir Putin and Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, ending today in Minsk lasted more than 4 hours. Opening the meeting, both leaders expressed confidence that they would be able to agree on all issues and were surprised that the visit of the President of the Russian Federation to Minsk "paid such increased attention" in Russia and in the West, ITAR-TASS reports ..

The announcement of Dmitry Medvedev by Putin’s successor as the President of the Russian Federation provoked a stream of applications to Rospatent to register trademarks of alcoholic and non -alcoholic products, the names of which beat his surname. The application for registration of the Volodya and Bears brand was received two days after Medvedev’s nomination.

The Italian Fabio Capello was officially appointed head coach of the England football team. He replaced Steve McLaren, who was not able to bring the team to the final part of Euro 2008, as this post. Capello’s contract is calculated until the end of the 2010 World Cup, with the possibility of extension depending on the results.

In the city of Udomlya of the Tver region, the British subject stabbed his own wife and her grandmother, after which he tried to commit suicide. The 32-year-old Russian woman died due to blood loss, which has become a consequence of more than 40 stab wounds. The forensic experts counted 4 stab wounds in the neck of her grandmother.

Owners of the newspaper "Moscow News" suspend its release. According to the Favorite website, this was stated by its editor -in -chief Vitaliy Tretyakov. According to him, the shareholders of the publishing house made such a decision allegedly due to the economic condition of the newspaper, which does not pay off. The Favorite website, whose leadership previously worked in the Moscow News, notes that this newspaper has never been a profitable project.

The world -famous actress Nicole Kidman won a lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity against one of the leading British newspapers The Daily Telegraph . The lawyers of the Hollywood film star said that she agreed to accept large monetary compensation from the defendants for the damage that was done to her by the spread of the information discrediting her, ITAR-TASS reports.

Five subsidiaries of Rusneft will soon hold extraordinary meetings of shareholders with the only issue - re -election of the board of directors. The first meeting was scheduled for January 27 at Variganneft OJSC, one of the largest mining enterprises of Russneft, and then in the rest of the company's daughters, Kommersant writes.

President Putin promised that the growth of trade between Russia and Belarus will reach $ 24 billion. Putin and Lukashenko met on December 14 in Minsk to discuss the budget of the Union State. "Relations between Russia and Belarus have a very large volume, are constantly growing. This year I am sure that we will go to a new, very high bar of trade and economic relations - more than $ 24 billion," Putin said in negotiations in a narrow composition with the president of Belarus.

The Norwegian company Opera Software, the developer of the popular Internet browser Opera sent a complaint to the American Corporation Microsoft, the world's largest software manufacturer. The company is dissatisfied with the Internet Explorer Internet browser built into the Windows operating system, which, in her opinion, violates the principles of free competition, RIA Novosti reports.

A senior member of the Fath movement, adviser to Prime Minister Salyam Fayad in the rank of Minister Omar al-Gul, was stolen in the gas sector on Friday. According to his family, unknown armed people in civilian clothes burst into their house and took al-Gul in an unknown direction. According to the sources in Gaza, the minister constantly lived in the sector, but went to work in Ramalls (the western bank of the Jordan River) daily, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Russian economy "is already part of the ten largest economies in the world, but this is only the beginning of the path," the First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on December 14 at the award of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology in 2006.

For the Japanese concern Honda, the American market is still the most important. In the United States, the company sells completely different cars than, for example, in Japan or Europe. So, for several years, the Pilot crossover was very popular among the Americans. The last time this car was updated in 2005, and now the concern decided to “refresh” the model. As a result, the new Pilot will be shown at the Detroit car dealership in January 2008. This is written by the magazine "At the wheel" .