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Latvian President Valdis Zatlers announced on Saturday a dissolution of the country’s parliament (Saeima), to dissolve parliament after it blocked a corruption probe of a top lawmaker and businessman, attacking “political scheming and lies” and saying he wanted to rein in local oligarchs. Zalters accused the parliament of lying and maintaining interests of oligarchs. Earlier [...]

There are many myths about men’s sexual preferences. A well-known psychologist helped us understand which of them are pure fiction, and which are true. Myth 1. A man must hunt for sex; otherwise he would quickly cool off towards his woman. True. Men are hunters (real men), so the process of conquest is very important [...]

They may have had a bad romance, but now there’s a cordial professional split between Lady Gaga and a music producer who said she ditched him as both a collaborator and a boyfriend after he helped launch her career. Court papers filed this week show the Grammy Award-winning “Bad Romance” singer and songwriter-producer Rob Fusari [...]

Astronomers discovered the system of so-called canals on the surface of the red planet. Percival Lowell, a well-known astronomer, set out a version of their artificial origin in his book. The mystery of life on Mars has become one of the most talked-about subjects in the field of space exploration since then. “The War of [...]

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia says it is moving into the personal computing market with the launch of a . The Nokia Booklet 3G is to be formally launched at the Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Germany, on September 2. “A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with full benefits [...]

Since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2008, developing and developed countries lost 20 million jobs. By the end of next year additional 20 million jobs could be lost. According to some experts, the number of unemployed worldwide has reached 200 million. The current pace of employment growth in the leading countries is [...]