The ancestors of the first aborigines may have come from Southeast Asia to what is now Australia some 50,000 years ago. For thousands of years, the aborigines lived a primitive, peaceful, and nomadic life, undisturbed by outsiders.

An Australian town has changed its name to Speedkills to promote safer driving.

The White Sea-Baltic channel is not a simple ship canal connecting the White Sea with Onega Lake. And it is also not an important transport object which is giving exit from the White Sea to The Baltic and The Caspian and the southern seas.

Following the tsunami which devastated the island of Samoa in the South Pacific earlier this week, we explore the phenomenon that can leave lives and entire countries destroyed.

Sometimes we can hear that Japanese are so clever because their children study very much at school. In reality they study no more than any European child. The matter is that besides school they attend “juka” – the additional classes for entering the University or Higher School, but these courses are also widespread everywhere now.

We can read and hear very often that the huge territory of Russia with comparatively small population says about its imperial ambitions.