In the residence of the US President, another sexual scandal almost flared up. American journalists who tried on Thursday to reach the White House, was waiting for a surprise - instead of participating in a press -brewing, a pleasant female voice invited them to have sex on the phone, RIA Novosti reports. Surprisingly, the “new service” had nothing to do with the first -April jokes.

Scientists from the American University of Colorado simulated the process of falling into a giant black hole. As the New Scientist magazine writes with humor, the fall into the black hole will not benefit health, but the sight must be impressive. Physicists Andrew Hamilton and Gavin Polemus created a model of what you could see on the way to the center of the black hole.

The captain of the English football club "Liverpool" Stephen Jerrard agreed on the conditions for the extension of the contract with the Mersisides for another two years, as a result of which he will remain on Enfield Road to at least 2013. The 28-year-old player has not yet put his signature on a new agreement, but it is expected that he will sign it in the next few days, reports Sportinglife.com .

Until recently, the list of cars that the program of preferential lending from the Government of the Russian Federation is applied to 30 models. Today there are 29 left, Volkswagen Jetta came off the distance - he did not fall into the final "register" of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, published today in the "Russian newspaper" . As explained in the press service of the ministry, Volkswagen did not dare to reduce the cost of Jetta of the Russian assembly.

The Turkish leadership supported the implementation of the Blue Stream-2 project (Blue Stream-2) with a continuation of Israel, said the chairman of Gazprom, Alexei Miller at a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. In turn, the Prime Minister said that the Russian government is ready to find opportunities and support Gazprom if the situation requires this. But Miller said that the monopoly has not yet seen the need for this.

The cause of the death of the famous German composer Georg Friedrich Gendel, who became famous not only for his musical works, but also a crazy addiction to delicious food and guilt, is considered gluttony. Such conclusions were a musicologist from Houston David Hunter, writes The Times . In particular, Hunter, working on this problem, came across the story of the artist Joseph Gupy, whom Handel once invited to his dinner, warning that the food will be the simplest.

Until recently, the Russian oligarchs were the main buyers of villas on the Mediterranean coast, but now, in a crisis, they have formed problems with finances, writes on Friday Inopressa.ru with reference to Handelsblatt . But more recently, it seemed that their possibilities were unlimited, so in recent years, the prices of elite real estate on the azure shore were sharply shot.

At the Korkinskaya mine near Chelyabinsk at 20:55 minutes on local time Friday (18:55 in Moscow), an explosion of methane occurred. At this time, a shift of 38 people was in the face, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the operational duty officer in Korkino, four miners were injured as a result of the explosion, who were taken to the city hospital. Of these, two - with burns of varying severity (one in serious condition), two are left under the supervision of doctors.

At the initiative of the Swiss adherents of Calvinism on Easter days, celebrated according to the Western calendar on April 12, in Geneva, where Jean Calvin died on May 27, 1564, the exhibition "One day of Calvin's life" will open. About this and other events planned in Switzerland dedicated to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jean Kalvin (1509-1564), says the special website of the Organizing Committee for the "Calvina-2009 year", Sedemitsa.Ru reports.

The President of VTB, Chairman of the Board of VTB, Andrei Kostin, speaking at the congress of the Association of Russian Banks, announced the danger of forming a negative image of the banking sector in society. “If two years ago, anti -globalists bombed McDonald's eggs, now they carry glasses in Royal Bank of Scotland,” Kostin complained, emphasizing the danger that, as a result of the confrontation, the “extreme” can remain banks.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia will conduct a religious examination. The relevant powers were transferred to the Ministry to the law "On Amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in connection with the improvement of the exercise of the powers of the Government of the Russian Federation." This was reported to the Interfax agency today in the Ministry of Justice.

The investigation considers about ten versions of undermining the monument to Lenin in St. Petersburg: from hooliganism to extremism. Significant forces were involved in the disclosure of the crime, and the head of the St. Petersburg police, Vladislav Piotrovsky, is confident that the attack on the leader of the world proletariat will be disclosed, RIA Novosti reports.

The government proposes to reduce the receipts of dividends from companies with state participation by 25.9 billion rubles, the explanatory note to the draft amendments to the budget for 2009-2011 said. The bill was submitted by the government to the State Duma on Wednesday, the Vedomosti writes. What is the adjusted forecast for dividend income, the document is not said.

The woman-priest of the US Bishopal Church Ann Holmes Redding was deprived of San after she refused to renounce her appeal to Islam, the Blagovers-Info reports with reference to the AP agency. The fact that the Monk Redding was erupted from the dignity was announced last Wednesday by the bishop of Rhinod, Geralin Wolfe.

Three collectors were killed in Kharkov and a random passer -by was wounded. The criminals disappeared, taking 300 thousand hryvnias. As Interfax reports with reference to the Center for Public Relations of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kharkov region, the attack occurred on Thursday, April 2, at 18:50 local time near the Oschadbank department on ul. Klaptsova, 3, at the minute when the collectors left the bank's premises.