The more the partners' DNA differs, the better for the unborn child. It turns out that people know how to evaluate this genetic difference by smell. A man in a white coat picks up a scalpel and cuts off a small piece of tissue from a T-shirt lying on the table. His assistant carefully places the piece of cloth into a numbered plastic container and takes it to the woman in the next room.

Report from the besieged city: during the Champions League final, fans almost smashed Rome brick by brick Spaniard Mikel Castro arrived in Rome for only 16 hours. The owner of the hotel where Mikel was supposed to stay, left in the morning for his main job - he is a taxi driver - and forgot to leave the key to the new guest. I had to leave my suitcase right at the entrance - otherwise Mikel would not have made it to the stadium.

Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR Vyacheslav Nevinny died on Sunday in Moscow at the age of 75, a representative of the press service of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, whose leading actor he was for many years, told RIA Novosti. According to the interlocutor of the agency, Innocent died at home after a severe and prolonged illness.

On June 12, elections will be held in Iran, in which the former reformist president Mohammad Khatami had a real chance of defeating the current president, the radical Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The whole world is watching these elections. Khatami unexpectedly dropped out of the race, supporting another candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Newsweek correspondent Mazyar Bahari spoke with former President Khatami about the fate of Iranian reforms and Iran's conflict with the West.

In the fourth "Terminator" people are trying to finally defeat the robots. Unsuccessfully About the fourth "Terminator" some movie fans will say that the movie is a failure - and the plot is bad, and the characters are not bright enough, and there is no way to get rid of the feeling of deja vu. Others will argue that it is darker and smarter than the previous Terminator, and Christian Bale and Anton Yelchin are excellent artists.

Physicist Dmitry Malyshev has been living and working in the United States for the past six years. In mid-May, he went on vacation to his homeland, immediately felt ill and ended up in the 1st Infectious Diseases Hospital in Moscow. There Malyshev was informed that he had swine flu. This is the first recorded case in Russia. The 28-year-old physicist told Ilya Arkhipov about his misadventures. How did you get infected? I have no idea.

The campaign against direct pressure on the court is gaining momentum. It's a drop in the ocean: there are many other ways to manipulate justice All officials and deputies answer differently, but most of the answers sound unconvincing for some reason. “I was set up,” says one. “I don’t know anything about the connection of my request with the interests of businessmen,” replies another.

Another scandal with a Russian child erupted last week: a biological mother from Russia was given 6-year-old Alexandra Zarubina, who lived for several years in a Portuguese family. Natalya Zarubina worked for many years in Portugal, gave birth to a daughter there and gave her up herself to João Piñera and Florinda Vieira in 2004. In 2007, it turned out that Zarubina was outlawed in the country, and they decided to deport her to Russia.

The Kremlin brings mayors closer to the people: now it’s easier to remove them from work Residents of Orel have not seen their mayor Alexander Kasyanov for a very long time. A year ago, he was accused of failing to pay taxes - long before he was elected mayor of the city. Last summer, Kasyanov took a vacation at his own expense and left. In October, he was put on the wanted list.

Pharmaceutical companies are preparing to capitalize on the epidemic Three years ago, advertisements for various drugs for bird flu appeared in Russian pharmacies. This did not please the chief orderly of the country, Gennady Onishchenko. He claimed a violation of the Criminal Code and warned: "There is no specific universal drug that provides a complete cure for bird flu." Then Onishchenko noted that domestic arbidol helps against this strain of influenza.

In Russia, they are used to the fact that the fight against epidemics is the business of the state. Therefore, they react to a new virus, as always: they are afraid and do nothing. Science fiction writer Leonid Kaganov recently did a little research: he searched blogs for references to all the epidemics he knew of in recent years. “SARS, bird flu, and now swine flu; I call it all “totem flu,” says Kaganov. He counted the number of responses for each disease and drew up a graph.

In 60 years, China has gone from communist utopia to pragmatic nationalism. Democracy was discarded along the road as unnecessary Every day, wild cries are heard in Beijing's Temple of the Sun Park. This usually happens before eight in the morning. Sometimes the op is replaced by frantic laughter. “Ha-ha-ha,” minted a serious elderly man in white slippers. "Ho ho ho," he continues, thumping his chest at every sound.

North Koreans are dangerous, but not crazy. The attack of aggression fits into the logic of their foreign policy and internal struggle for power After North Korea's nuclear test last week, the generals will finally convince North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that a new long-range missile must be prepared for launch. In response, South Korea will send its fleet to the shores of the DPRK. Since the launched rocket will fly over Japan again, the Japanese will shoot it down.

How President Dmitry Medvedev scolded various pessimists Some kind of intense internal struggle has been going on in President Dmitry Medvedev for a long time, and recently his desire to look like a serious leader has clearly intensified. The signals emanating from it are getting louder, orders and calls like “to turn around the rusty machine of our economy” are heard more and more often. Such that it is better not to fall under the arm.

The fragile 20-year-old boy Anton Yelchin looks like a pure American: an eternal smile, a ridiculous hat pulled down on his forehead. However, he lived almost all his life in the States. And he made a fantastic career in Hollywood for his age. He managed to work with Sharon Stone and Bruce Willis, Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Sarandon. And this season, he turned out to be the hero of two summer blockbusters at once.