Russian Newsweek Anthropologists' favorite region of South Africa called the "Cradle of Humankind" once again lived up to its name. Last week, a group of South African paleontologists published a description of the find, which they kept secret for two years. During excavations in one of the caves 40 kilometers from Johannesburg, scientists discovered two well-preserved skeletons. They belonged to an adult female and a calf of a previously unknown species of higher primates.

The ousted president of Kyrgyzstan fled from Bishkek to Jalalabad in the south of the country. In a telephone conversation with Leonid Ragozin, he said that he was ready for negotiations. Are you currently negotiating with the government of Roza Otunbayeva? They haven't made contact yet. Have you ever tried to reach them? Me not. I didn't come out because the initiative was theirs - the capture of the White House with weapons in hand. I think that they should take the initiative further.

The United States on Friday announced the resumption of flights from the airbase at Bishkek International Airport. On Thursday morning, American aviation flights from the air base were suspended after the Kyrgyz authorities closed the airport due to riots in the capital. On the evening of April 8, the US military announced that a limited number of flights were still operating.

The iPad is on sale in the US. From a technical point of view, there is nothing special about him, but he drives people crazy I really didn’t want to lag behind progress, but it was somehow undignified to run after it with my pants up.

Two sons and brother of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev have been put on the wanted list and criminal cases have been opened against them, Acting Interior Minister Bolot Sherniyazov said at a press conference of the provisional government.

Russian Newsweek There is a very simple explanation for the bright lights and luminous tunnels that people who have experienced clinical death remember about. Slovenian doctors from the University of Maribor are sure of this. They claim that spectacular hallucinations result from carbon dioxide poisoning of the brain. The researchers prove their theory with numbers in hand. They studied the results of blood tests taken from people who experienced cardiac arrest.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan on Friday officially announced the temporary closure of the border with Kyrgyzstan, where mass protests continue for several days. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Uzbek side, in order to prevent the destabilizing impact of events in Kyrgyzstan on neighboring regions of Uzbekistan, is forced to take temporary measures to tighten the border regime at the border.

Pope Benedict XVI is ready to hold new meetings with victims of Catholic pedophile priests, Holy See spokesman Father Federico Lombardy told Vatican Radio on Friday.

12:15. Newsweek correspondents broadcast from Bishkek On the morning of April 9, the first uniformed policemen appeared in Bishkek. These are the traffic police. 20 kilometers from Bishkek, on the territory of Ata-Beyit, a memorial complex where the victims of Stalinist repressions are buried, a tractor is digging fresh graves for those who died on April 7. How many graves are still unknown, but Health Ministry official Dinara Sagynbayeva gave Newsweek the official figure of 76 deaths.

The head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of Moscow, police major-general Pyotr Pavlyuk, has filed a resignation report and has already been fired from the internal affairs bodies, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti on Friday.

Russian Newsweek In the near future, cancerous tumors will be destroyed using ultrasound. At least this is what physicists from the California Institute of Technology are sure of. This will make it possible to make a device that scientists call a "sonic lens". The prototype of such a device consists of a large number of steel spheres enclosed in a solid frame. A special mechanism allows you to adjust the rigidity of their fastening.

There is no talk of recognition by the European Union of the new authorities of Kyrgyzstan yet, said on Friday the representative of the European Commission Maya Kosyanchich. Mass opposition protests escalated into riots in Kyrgyzstan on 7 April. President of Kyrgyzstan Bakiyev left the capital and are now in the south of the country. The opposition created a provisional government.