Antarctica turned into a desert covered with a multi-kilometer layer of ice, due to the circulation of ocean waters off its shores. This was written by Science magazine, the publication of which is referred by RIA Novosti . Antarctica in the past was rich in Flora and Fauna - on its territory, in the forests of a moderate climatic belt, marsupial animals lived. However, 33 million years ago, the continent quickly covered with a thick layer of ice.

On Friday in the French Doville, the Great Eight summit ends. Apparently, for Russia it goes very successfully: according to unofficial data, she received a valuable trump card in her hands in a dialogue with the West.

The Moscow police warned the metropolitan gays and lesbians going to hold the action on Saturday that their event was not coordinated by the mayor and will be suppressed. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

As you know, many Russian consumers cannot get a mortgage loan. Banks refuse them for various reasons: one does not have enough “white” income, the other made delays on previously taken loans and, for this reason, got into the black lists of the credit bureau. The attention of such borrowers is attracted by numerous announcements offering a “loan secured by real estate”, writes the Internet magazine Metrinfo.ru . You can get a loan secured by real estate from various sources.

Qatar temporarily closes its embassy in Yemen. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Al-Jazeera TV channel. "Qatar suspenses the work of his embassy in the capital of Yemen and withdraws diplomats from the country," the report said.

In the LUKOIL report, for the 1st quarter for US Gaap, Vedomosti found a mention that the company made an advance payment of $ 1.778 billion as part of the “potential acquisition of certain extracts”. 1.76 billion dollars falls on a possible purchase in the field of intelligence and mining abroad, follows the report, and the remaining 18 million in Russia. LUKOIL Vice President Leonid Fedun spoke indefinitely.

The weighted medium of the US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, fell by 11.14 kopecks and amounted to 28,1166 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" grew by 5.80 kopecks - to 40.0823 rubles.

The company Sibir Energy plans to sell plots in Krasnodar and Krasnaya Polyana in June - companies that own this land will be put up for sale, and assets of the former shareholder of the company and active period of the developer Shalva Chigirinsky will go from the hammer, the newspaper RBC Daily . A plot of 0.75 hectares in Krasnodar and 3.37 hectares in Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi will be put up for auction, but the starting price has not yet been determined.

In New York, a sentence was sentenced to Russian athlete Andrei Nevsky, who became the USA gangster in the USA. In conclusion, the boxer will spend three years, and then will be deported to his homeland. The verdict against the 26-year-old athlete was announced by the Federal Court of New York, writes The New York Post with reference to the lawyer of the defendant Brian Bayrett. Nevsky lived in Boston (Massachusetts) since 2005 on a student visa.

The new incident of the infamous military unit in the village of Kamenka in the Leningrad Region: the battalion commander torn his head with an explosion during the disposal of ammunition in front of the eyes of subordinates. The emergency occurred at about 16:15 on Friday. The commander of the recycling battalion, Captain Yuri Gurov, born, born in 1975, who received ammunition in the warehouse to destroy them, reports the Fontanka.ru website.

Collector agencies in Russia are increasingly resorting to illegal methods of work - various forms of humiliation, threats and intimidation, states the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights and Rospotrebnadzor (Rospotrebnadzor) in its website . "At the same time, the nature of the materials received in Rospotrebnadzor obviously indicates that the arsenal of collector techniques for processing" problem debtors "is constantly expanding," the report says.

In Russia, a single state exam (exam) has launched. The test results will be taken into account as an entrance exam when admitted to most universities. Although the USE has been going on for several years, the scandals around him do not subside, but on the contrary, gain momentum. The last of them did not go unnoticed by Dmitry Medvedev.

The authorities of the Balakhninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, where investigators are checking on the destruction of houses built in the fall of 2010 for the firecrackers, promise to eliminate deficiencies. Investigative bodies of the Nizhny Novgorod region conduct a check on messages The media about the destruction of houses built on the site of the Balakhninsky district burned in the village of Vatagino after the 2010 forest fires.

In 2011, the share of economy class villages increased in the Moscow Region, which caused a negative adjustment of prices in the suburban market. However, some market participants expect prices in summer. This was reported by the Bfm.ru business portal.

The number of registered participants in the world's largest social network Facebook exceeded the mark of 700 million. Such data was published by Socialbakers.com statistics service, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, more than 100 million new users have joined the social network in less than five months. A mark of 600 million participants was overcome by Facebook in January 2011.