Today’s world is connected closely because of air travel. This makes everyone, no matter where they live, threatened as the disease easily travels from location to location virtually within hours. In nature, influenza viruses circulate continuously among animals, especially birds. Even though such viruses might theoretically develop into pandemic viruses, in Phase 1 no viruses circulating among animals have been reported to cause infections in humans. Now at Phase 4, it is not yet considered a pandemic but the potential does exist.
Up until now, WHO has advised no restriction of regular travel or closure of borders. It is strongly advisable for people who are ill to delay travel and for people developing symptoms following international travel to seek immediate medical attention. Just today, the European Union advised against travel to Mexico and the US, while US health officials remain on high alert. There is no risk of infection from the consumption of well-cooked pork and pork products.

The current situation regarding the outbreak of swine influenza A(H1N1) is evolving rapidly. As of 27 April 2009, the US has 45 reported, confirmed human cases of swine influenza A(H1N1), with no deaths. Mexico has reported 152 deaths confirmed/probable H1N1. Canada has reported six cases, with no deaths, while Spain, France, Israel, New Zealand and UK have each reported one case, with no deaths. Twenty of the US cases were all school children from the same school just returning from a trip to Mexico. The outbreak is thought to have originated in Vera Cruz, near a pig farm and then spread to Mexico City.

The world economy is likely to shrink this year for the first time in six decades.

The International Monetary Fund projected the 1.3 percent drop in a dour forecast released Wednesday. That could leave at least 10 million more people around the world jobless, some private economists said.

"By any measure, this downturn represents by far the deepest global recession since the Great Depression," the IMF said in its latest World Economic Outlook. "All corners of the globe are being affected."

The new forecast of a decline in global economic activity for 2009 is much weaker than the 0.5 percent growth the IMF had estimated in January.

Big factors in the gloomier outlook: It's expected to take longer than previously thought to stabilize world financial markets and get credit flowing freely again to consumers and businesses. Doing so will be necessary to lift the U.S., and the global economy, out of recession.

The report comes in advance of Friday's meetings between the United States and other major economic powers, and weekend sessions of the IMF and World Bank. The talks will seek to flesh out the commitments made at a G-20 leaders summit in London last month, when President Barack Obama and the others pledged to boost financial support for the IMF and other international lending institutions by $1.1 trillion.

An elderly couple was taken to a hospital as a result of their sexual experiments. The two spouses froze in the position of Indrani.

Valentina, 51 and her husband Ivan, 56 suffered from Kama Sutra, a book that they had recaived from their friends a year ago.
“We couldn’t help laughing looking at them. The two lovers, who were not young at all, were staying in such a position!” one of the rescuers said.

Valentina later told the medics that the story started with the book of Kama Sutra which she had received as a present.

Valentina and Ivan accepted the book as a joke.

Valentina’s friends presented the book to Valentina for her 50th birthday.

American power and influence in the world are as much a function of its financial health as its military prowess. But in just over a year, Wall Street’s venerable banking houses have been either gobbled up by rivals, succumbed to bankruptcy or refashioned as ‘holding companies.’
The ‘systemic shocks’ that continue to surprise us all on a daily basis are forcing the authorities to spend trillions of dollars in order to avert a complete meltdown. It seems every other week Treasury-man Geithner and Congress together invoke emergency powers that resemble wartime measures. With the Fed’s printing-press running day and night and knee-jerk legislation coming out of Congress, doubts about America‘s safe-haven status abound. Many commentators have compared America with Chavez’s Venezuela; talking-heads at CNBC call Obama and his ilk hedge fund operators - ‘The US hedge fund of America.’
Naturally the world is asking ‘why should we take seriously the American model of ‘free-enterprise’ as the debacle worsens?’ This crisis, it seems, is to America what ‘imperial overstretch’ was to Great Britain: a slow-motion unwind of international power and credibility - in short, the erosion of U.S. supremacy around the world and the ushering in of a ‘post-American system.’

Indigo children have become one of the most talked about subjects in the world recently. It is rumored that indigo children will take the human civilization to a higher level of development.
One may have a different approach to this idea, but it is hard to deny the inrush of talents in the young generation. The exhibition of innovations of schoolchildren, “A Step to the Future” became another evidence to prove it.

There was always a crowd of people near the stand of Anna Shvetsova, an 11th-grader from Noginsk. The silvery disk, reminiscent to either a UFO or two bowls glued together, crawls on the floor. Anna uses a remote control to make the bowls crawl near her feet.

The toy is actually a model of a spacecraft that could land on Venus. “There is an engine inside the rover . The engine is designed on the base of Tolchin’s inertioid,” the girl said.