In fact, the inhabitants of this small city do not need fame. Everyone knows about them. “As it usually happens: you say that from Uryupinsk-and everyone is smiling at once: what, really from Uryo-Yu-Yupinsk? What, really, is there such a city? Yes, you say, there is such a city, and I am from there, ”says Uryupinets Alexander Ryabich.“ We, Uryupins, love our city and are not embarrassed to admit it!

Skinned, charred, still smoking shahids are met by the prophet in heaven: spreading his arms wide, he blocks their entrance to the Pearly Gates of Paradise. “Stop, stop! We've already run out of virgins!” the gatekeeper shouts at the bewildered suicide bombers. So the author of one of the cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten made fun of the Muslim belief, according to which the shahid in paradise will be gratified by virgin houris.

Khlebnikov case | Get up, the court is gone Just a month after it began, the trial for the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, starts anew. The Moscow City Court sees nothing extraordinary in this. "The reasons are purely technical," spokesman Anna Usacheva told Newsweek. - At the last meeting on January 18, it was decided to postpone the hearing due to the illness of Judge Marina Komarova.

Service | Fly like a neighbor Passengers on US domestic flights will now be able to choose their own flight neighbors. Air Troductions offers its customers to fill out a special questionnaire: they must indicate their age, gender, interests and, most importantly, wishes regarding the qualities of the person who will be given a neighboring seat.

When in the XVV. The boyars were going to extract the relics of St. Nikita Stolpnik from the ground, a strong hurricane suddenly began. The Orthodox were frightened by heavenly signs and left the grave alone. Five hundred years later, she was disturbed by the archaeologist Andrei Stanyukovych. As soon as he stuck a shovel into the ground, a grind of thunder thundered among an absolutely clear sky. “Probably, a meteorite fell somewhere,” thought the scientist and continued to dig.

There was no trace of the previous self -confidence of the Americans. At first they wanted to defeat all Iraq, who were dissatisfied with the occupation of Iraq without exception, when they became a real threat of the Shiite uprising throughout the country, they had to agree with representatives of this denomination: the most of the Shiites in the country, no democracy will work without their loyalty.

The Taatroved student Ilya Straev is very fond of musicals. He does not miss a single Moscow premiere and often goes to each performance several times: not “for study” - he just really likes it. He says that the musical is "such a holiday that does not happen in ordinary life." The only thing that Ilya is upset is that in Russia the musicals “do not live” for a long time - most of them close two to three years after the premiere.

About a hundred bearded demonstrators armed with green flags with quotes from the Qur'an are chanted in Arabic in the center of Tel Aviv: “There is no God, except Allah, and Magomet-His Press!” Tel Aviv passers-by are frightened and accelerate the step. This is just a picket at the Denmark Embassy - Arabic deputies of the Knesset and Israeli Islamists are outraged by caricatures on Magomed, printed in the Danish press.

Dear reader! “The end of Soviet sport” is because the Russian team for the Olympics in Turin is going entirely in the Russian composition, with isolated Soviet exceptions. The old system came down “From the pedestal - with honor” , ​​the new one is difficult to develop, besides, it seems to everyone that the old one was much better: after all, we won only 1st or 2nd place in the team standings. “The Bronze Puck Tournament ” .

The phone rings - this is Lena, she is a news reporter, she left for a week in the Seychelles. Here, I tell her, this is happening here: the president answered questions, so he called the G8 "a bunch of fat cats", he said about Western public opinion that "the dog barks - the caravan goes", and there was also about diapers and about blondes. Lena is surprised - she watched the BBC, CNN, Sky News, ZDF and ARD and did not notice anything like that.

When Walt Disney died in 1966, the legend that he had been subjected to cryogenic freezing was very popular. Mickey Maus should revive Pope allegedly, when a great bright future promised in the “Carousel of Progress” show set by him.