Baba Vanga, a famous Bulgarian prophetess, died 13 years back, on August 11, 1996.

The people, who were close to Vanga, can still tell a lot of interesting stories about the legendary mystic.
Vanga’s niece, Krasimira Stoyanova said that Vanga could contact the dead. The prophetess herself said once that she could sense their presence by the burning of the tip of her tongue. Then a kind of a cloud would envelop her brain. While Vanga was contacting the dead she seemed to be absent from this world.

Vanga would mentally ask questions to the souls of the dead, and they would answer. If the spirits had no answers, she heard some remote voice that came to the aid. The voice sounded as if she was speaking to someone on the phone. The stranger spoke either very loudly or so softly, that she had to repeat her questions.
As for contacting extraterrestrial civilizations, Krasimira said that she had preserved a list of questions, which Vanga answered concerning the aliens. Bellow are a few excerpts from it:

“Will humans contact with brothers in mind from other civilizations?”

“Yes. In 200 years.”

The number of Internet users in China has exceeded the number of the population of the United States of America. The majority of China’s cities and towns are connected to the World Wide Web. Even 92.5 percent of Chinese villagers can enjoy the Internet at their homes via telephone lines.
About 338 million Internet users have been registered in China as of the end of June 2009. Their number grows every hour: 40 million Chinese connected to the Internet during the recent six months.

The majority of Chinese nationals use the Internet to monitor news and take part in online discussions and social networks. Many prefer to use online stores to buy there something that they need.

However, China still lags behind the so-called developed states: only every fourth Chinese can boast of having the Internet access.

Every year hundreds of brave people who enjoy extreme tourism visit unusual locations on Earth only to experience unforgettable sensations. And they are ready to pay a lot of money for it.
Russian millionaires are often offered to visit the North Pole. Such a trip on an ice breaker usually costs about $12,000. Of course, they are not allowed to bathe in the Arctic Ocean.

However, a large swimming pool filled with the water from the ocean overboard is arranged on the deck for them. The most exciting moment of the whole journey is collective photo session on ice near the ice breaker.

For those who do not have millions, special survival tours to the Siberian taiga are offered. For $150 a day tourists are provided with the unique opportunity to walk the whole day long in taiga together with a guide and eat roots, berries and nuts.

A new term - 'dark tourism' - has appeared in the tourist industry recently. More and more tourists are eager to visit places of catastrophes and disasters which killed plenty of people.

The world has enough oil reserves for 42 years at current production rates.

This was announced Thursday in a report of British Petroleum Ltd, Bloomberg wrote.
"Fossil fuels will remain the dominant source of energy well into the future", British Petroleum Ltd Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Tony Hayward, said at a presentation in London.

Global proved oil reserves fell last year, the first drop since 1998, led by declines in Russia, Norway and China, according to BP Plc.

Oil reserves totaled 1,258 trillion barrels at the end of 2008, compared with a revised 1,261 trillion barrels in 2007, BP said in its annual Statistical Review of World Energy.
"Declines in Russia, Norway, China and other countries offset increases in Vietnam, India and Egypt," BP said on its Web site.

BP Ltd and other oil companies are struggling to replace reserves as access to deposits becomes harder, and older fields in places like the UK and Mexico are depleted.

A Russian teenager named as Artyom, 15, was taken to hospital after spending more than 40 hours playing computer games.

Artyom’s parents went to their relatives for a wedding party during a recent weekend. Artyom was left home alone. He immediately found the computer wires, which his father had hidden from him: the man was aware of his son’s gaming addiction. Artyom was so engaged in gaming that he did not even notice that he had been playing for 40 hours.
When the parents came back they found their pale-faced son sitting in front of the monitor.

“Artyom did not react to anything. He was just staring at the screen. At first we thought that he was just pretending, however when our son’s face started to turn blue we called an ambulance,” Artyom’s mother said.

When the doctors came they noticed immediately that the child was completely inadequate.

“Artyom was answering our questions inappropriately and his body temperature and blood pressure were at a very low level. He was actually about to faint,” a doctor said.

Nearly all of Artyom’s friends were avid gamers, so the teen boy, who did not have his own computer, was very envious. However, when the parents bought him a computer for his 15th birthday they did not even think that it could do so much harm to their child.