Stanford University employees have developed a simple and extremely cheap microscope specifically for developing countries, user ilya42 reports in his blog on the Habrahabr website. The main reason for the creation of the microscope was the fight against malaria - in developing countries, diagnosing malaria requires about a billion microscopic examinations of blood samples per year.

The three-door Mini Paceman crossover, as well as the two-door Mini Roadster and Coupe, most likely will not be continued due to their unpopularity. About this in an interview with Automotive News at the Geneva Motor Show, the head of Mini on the management of products of Oliver Friedman, who was passing these days.

“You can understand in great detail what is said in the text of the proposed amendment and the accompanying note to it (according to the author of both documents, the ban is aimed against the so-called “rubber apartments” and short-term accommodation, and not against the practice of renting out housing itself, as many commentators understood this legal novel).

By 2016, Russia can become a leader in Europe in terms of the supply of high -quality shopping centers: such data are given in the study by Jones Lang Lasalle. According to experts, in 2014-2015, 14.1 million square meters of the shopping center were stated for commissioning in Europe.

The Pope Francis retired to the Great Premier Recollections - the time of special spiritual exercises. The pontiff announced this last Sunday, at the end of the traditional meeting with believers, whom he asked prayerfully to support him during this period. At the request of the pope, recollections are carried out outside Rome this time. They were led by the rector of the arrival of St.

The famous Ukrainian businessman, oligarch Rinat Akhmetov made an appeal to the new Ukrainian authorities in connection with the detention of ex-governor of the Kharkov region Mikhail Dobkin. In particular, he urged not to incite the situation in the southeast of Ukraine and release a former official from custody, reports Newsru.ua .

In early March, Russian television, and then on the Internet, was widespread by the FSB operational shooting, on which the young man, detained in Bryansk, told how drunk he left for Euromaidan, and then marked along with the militants of the Right Sector and foreign mercenaries. Journalists managed to find out the details of this "activist".

An angry American homeowner from New Jersey sued a couple of realtors, who, instead of quickly fulfilling his order for the sale of a house, had sex there. The surveillance cameras found them at least ten times behind this occupation. Richard Weiner and his wife Sandra are now demanding from realtors compensation for losses for a simple house, which they promised to promptly sell for 650 thousand dollars.

President Vladimir Putin dismissed a number of high -ranking employees of the internal affairs bodies, among which were also involved in ugly or criminal stories. The corresponding decree is published on the Kremlin website .

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Sakhalin Region Vladislav Belotserkovsky was detained and sent to Khabarovsk, reports SakhalinMedia with reference to a source in the regional government. There are no official comments on the fact of detention yet. The deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Combating Corruption, Alexander Khinshtein, specified that the head of the Sakhalin police was detained on suspicion of abuse of authority.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the day when the sanctions introduced by the EU against Russian officials in connection with the crisis in Ukraine will come into force. This will happen on March 17, Monday, reports Reuters. "As for the sanctions against Russia, the decision on them, in fact, has already been made, especially on the procedure for imposing sanctions. The consequence of this was the beginning of sanctions on Monday," Donald Tusk said at a press conference.

The mayor of the city of Kharkov, Gennady Kernes, a close friend of the detained ex-governor of the Kharkov region of Ukraine Mikhail Dobkin (known as Dopa), is summoned for interrogation to the Prosecutor General of the country. He himself reported this on his Instagram page.

Technical Director of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Andrei Lexakov said that the St. Petersburg Zenit, who appointed acting Head coach Sergei Semak, urgently needs to find a coach with a category of "Pro". According to the regulations, Semak can lead the club for no more than a month On Monday, it became known about the dismissal of Luciano Spalletti , who led the team since 2009. The acting head coach was Sergey Semak, who on Tuesday held the first training in a new position.

The founder of VKontakte Pavel Durov acted as a defender of the existing procedure and living conditions in Russia. On his personal page in a popular social network, he published a post in which he noted that in recent months extremely updated the topic of emigration from the country and, in his own expression, went “against the trend”, listing seven main reasons that, in his opinion, should keep citizens from such a step.

On Tuesday, within the framework of the Winter Paralympics in Sochi, six sets of awards from 12 planned awards were played. The Russians added 10 medals to the piggy bank-four gold, four silver and two bronze, strengthening the leadership in the team event with the 11th gold, 14th silver and 9th bronze awards. The second in the team event are the Germans (4-0-0), the third-Ukrainians (3-3-5).