People who prefer to trust the words of strangers are better than distrustful to identify lies in these words, while incredulous people are often bought for other people's words. This is stated in an article by researchers published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science . “People who are inclined to trust strangers are not naive dreamers at all ...

The rating of the best actors of the genre of films-boa of world cinema was headed by Sylvester Stallone. This was announced today by the British Air Force radio company with reference to a sociological study conducted in the European Union. Stallone received worldwide fame in 1976, when he played the role of a boxer in the film "Rocky". And with the release of the Rambo militant: the first blood, he turned into a cult actor of this action -packed genre.

About 3600 athletes will perform at the first summer youth Olympic Games in Singapore, starting on Saturday. They will compete in 30 sports, including 201 discipline. The age of young athletes is from 15 to 18 years. The Russian team is represented by 96 athletes. Russians are counting on success in rhythmic and sports, athletics, struggle, boxing, bullet shooting, kayaking and canoeing, modern pentathlon, fencing, thakwondo, judo, handball and swimming.

The fate of the crew commander T-22M3 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Koventsov is not yet known, Colonel General Alexander Zelin told the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force on Saturday. "We (in the losses in August 2008 in South Ossetia) only one problem - this is a lieutenant colonel of Kovents, who, unfortunately, has not yet been found," Zelin said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Police officers in a shootout killed two bandits, who attacked their colleagues in the village of Suvorovskaya on Saturday, Interfax was informed in the district department of the foothill of the foothill district. "At about 14:00 Moscow time, two bandits who tried to hide from the police after they attacked the police patrol were discovered in the area of ​​the Suvorovskaya river in the vicinity of the village of Suvorovskaya. The bandits responded to the proposal of surrender.

The website of the Russian Federal State Educational Institution "Rosles Provestas" was closed to "technical work" after the head of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies Sergei Shoigu called to deal with the information about the radiation threat posted on it.

He was able to over the territory of the Kharkov region, which appeared on Saturday, caused by peat fires in the Russian Federation, but does not pose threats to people's health. "The haze and a small fog is the result of peat fires over the territory of the Voronezh and Ryazan regions of the Russian Federation," the statement posted on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kharkov Region.

The WikiLeaks Internet resource will continue to publish confidential documents on the military operation of the Western coalition in Afghanistan. “We are in the middle of the journey, so after a few weeks we will publish a new batch of documents,” the founder of the portal Australian Julian Essange told reporters today in Stockholm.

On Saturday, the city election commission decided to register as a candidate for the post of head of the city of the current mayor Viktor Tarkhov, despite the inaccuracies in the registration documents, the Interfax agency was told in Gorizbarkom. "Six out of 11 members of the commission voted for registering Tarkhov. Five voted against his registration. Thus, the current mayor will participate in the election race," the agency’s interlocutor said.

US President Barack Obama supported the plans of the New York Muslim community to build a cultural center and mosque on the site of the World Commercial Center (WTC) destroyed in 2001. Obama stated this at dinner in the White House for the adherents of Islam. At the same time, he said that Muslims have the same right to confess their faith as representatives of other religions, and that this implies the right to build a prayer house.

State Duma deputies from United Russia will support changes to the legislation in order to unify the names of the heads of regions. This was announced today by the Secretary of the Presidium of the Secretary General of the Party, the Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, ITAR-TASS reports.

The mourning of almost 2 thousand dead and missing as a result of the gathering of landslides in the northwestern province of Hansa was declared on Sunday in China, local media reported on Saturday. The strongest rains on August 7 caused landslides in the Mountain County Zhouce in the province of Gansu. According to the latest data, 1.156 thousand people were killed as a result of the impact of the elements, another 588 inhabitants are missing.

In the suburbs there was a fight between OMON employees and a group of drunk youth, a law enforcement source told Interfax today. Referring to preliminary data, the interlocutor of the agency said that on Saturday on the central square of the city of Shchelkovo near the fountain between two riot police officers and a group of drunken young people, a fight occurred. As a result, three people received bodily harm.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev drew attention to low competition in the Moscow market. “In Moscow, a highly uncired market,” Medvedev said on Saturday during a meeting with the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov. The Moscow authorities should pay attention to the problem of lack of competition, said the President of the Russian Federation. “There is something to think about the Moscow government,” he said.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin believes that there are many obscure points in the bill "On the Police", and he needs additional discussion. “The bill is represented by the public, and this is very correct,” Lukin told Interfax on Saturday. "The bill is of course still quite raw, there are many obscure points that require discussion. It is good that this discussion will take place," the Ombudsman said.