The head of the Papal Council for Culture Cardinal Dzhanfranko Ravazi believes that the sermons that Catholic priests appear before the flock are often painfully “gray”. In order to overcome their "dullness", the Vatican hierarch suggested "reviving" their "scandals" taken from biblical traditions.

The official representative of the Russian Orthodox Church was highly responding to the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev with the Orthodox community and said that the ROC to build a “symphony” in church and state relations will continue.

The art historian Paul Kudunaris asked for permission to photograph the skulls of the dead monks on the Holy Mount Athos in Greece. As it turned out, he was not the first to apply with such a request to the inhabitants of local monastery. The scientist spent three years traveling through ancient crypts, documenting rare exhibits made of human bones. The thirst for new discoveries brought him to Athos. According to Kudunaris, every Orthodox country has a monastery on the Holy Mountain.

The main prize of the traditional festival of the Cinema of Central and Eastern Europe - the Glass Figure "Lubin" - was awarded to the movie "Portrait at Twilly" Angelina Nikelova, ITAR -TASS reports.

On Monday evening, a fire occurred in an administrative building at the address: Ryazan Prospekt, d.99, in the southeast of Moscow, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement. The fire occurred in the mains on the second floor, after which the fire spread through the pipes of internal electric cables to the ninth floor. The building is located, in particular, the library of the State University of Management.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the police detained a cursory employee of the Russian Post, who is suspected of embezzlement of several million rubles. In search of a free life, the 26-year-old young mother threw her child and went with her lover to the capital. Later they moved south and bought a prestigious foreign car.

The Russian antivirus company Dr. Web warned of the emergence of a new fraudulent scheme used by attackers on the VKontakte social network. The scheme is based on the well -known fact that users treat the coming from relatives, friends and acquaintances with a greater degree of trust, which means that more often they peck at the bait of crooks.

The popular American actor Robert de Niro will play the creator of the largest financial pyramid in Bernard Madoff, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The Daily Telegraph . Madoff's fraud lasted about 20 years and was revealed in December 2008.

Venezuela rejoices: her next representative won at the Miss World International Beauty Competition, bypassing 112 beauties from other countries. 22-year-old Ivian Sarcos made another significant contribution to the piggy bank of the international achievements of Venezuecks at beauty contests. Thanks to her victory, Venezuela became the only country of the planet, whose representatives won the Miss Universe six times and the same amount of Miss World contest, ITAR -TASS reports.

Experts have calculated that in fact real estate in London does not cost as much money as is commonly believed. And in the residential areas of the British capital, a square meter costs an order of magnitude cheaper than in Moscow. “The high cost of real estate in London is a myth. In Russia they say that London is only for the rich.

The first place in the ranking of the regions of the capital of Russia with the most clean and comfortable green zones for walking was occupied by the Yasenevo area in the Southwestern Administrative District (Yuzao). There, green spaces occupy 48% of the entire territory of the district. In Yasenevo there is a Bittsevsky forest - the second largest park in Moscow, inferior in size to the Losin Island National Park, but ahead of it in environmental indicators.

The Korean Institute of Science and Technology (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ( Kaist ) has developed a technology that allows you to create complete -functional -dependent resistive memory with arbitrary access (RRAM), which have the ability to deform. Data on such flexible microcircuits can be read and recorded in an arbitrary order at an acceptable speed, reports the compartment with reference to Physorg .

In the Novosibirsk region, the police are investigating a triple murder, the victims of which was a small girl and her parents. The criminals cut out a family in her apartment. The corpses of three people were found last Sunday evening in one of the apartments of house No. 19 on the Gusinobrodsky Trut Street in the Oktyabrsky district of Novosibirsk, Interfax reports citing a source in law enforcement.

Muslims around the world celebrated on Sunday one of the main Islamic holidays of Id al-Adha, who in the post-Soviet countries is better known under the Turkic name Kurban-Bayram (sacrifice holiday). In Moscow, he gathered about 170 thousand people, almost three times less in St. Petersburg - 63.5 thousand. The day was a day off, so traffic jams were avoided , and in general there was more order, the media state.

The discount service Groupon conducted an IPO, despite the lack of profit and the debt exceeding the assets. The company was estimated at $ 12.8 billion, and already at the first auction its shares went up by more than 30%, Bfm.ru business portal reports. If the cost of the company were determined exclusively by the assets that are on her balance, then the cost of the Groupon discount operator would have only $ 795.5 million.