A strange store operates on the fourth floor of a shopping complex in the center of Frankfurt am Main - there are many shelves, a very poor assortment and a bunch of cameras under the ceiling. The person who enters here is taken aback. It is understandable: in this store, it is not the buyer who examines the goods - it is he who is closely monitored.

The film "Atonement" directed by Joe Wright, who has already made one very beautiful film "Pride and Prejudice", starts on January 17th. But I am sure that the fate of the film in Russia will largely be determined on the day the Russian Newsweek is released - on Monday, the 14th. After all, it is on this day that the verdict of the Golden Globe, the second most important American film award after the Oscar, will become known to the general film masses.

Return of originalness It could be a frame from the film: in the middle of the central street of the African city, rising a couple of heads above the crowd of its black inhabitants, stood an Indian leader. Newsweek correspondents could probably not know that he was the leader, but the royal indifference with which the Indian looked at the road chaos typical for Africa gave him the overlord of the people. We were not mistaken.

Northfleet is a very small town an hour's drive from London, surrounded by fields with grazing sheep. The local football club Ebbsfleet is by far the main attraction, although they only play in the English third division, the Conference. In the local newspaper, you can often find ads where it is proposed to sponsor the player you like with boots or uniforms.

Having become the owner of a car, a man rises several steps up the social ladder and can easily find a beautiful bride - this thesis, sociologists say, is more relevant than anywhere else in India. And if you believe him, then the country with a population of 1.1 billion people is waiting for a baby boom, probably for the first time in history caused by the appearance of a new car model.