My New Favorite Newspaper

There is competition for my favorite newspaper. The top position had been held by the Star Gazette but now I have come across this gem, the Mosnews.com.

A few samplings from a recent version of My New Favorite Newspaper:

Pack of Cigarettes Explode Tearing Man's Hand Apart
A pack of cigarettes exploded in a man's hands in the Russian city of Cheboksary.

The man seized the pack at a bar, went out in the street and opened it. After that, a major explosion tore his hand and another person's finger apart, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.

Russian Thieves Break Into Soviet-Era Missile Silo to Find it Filled With Money Bills
A team of thieves that broke into an abandoned missile silo not far from the Russian city of Kostroma in search of nonferrous metals was shocked to find the shaft packed with Soviet money bills, Regnum news agency reported on Tuesday.

The incident would have remained secret, had the wind not blown hundreds of banknotes all over the countryside.

Four men from Nizhny Novgorod found the silo that had had missiles dismantled and put on maintenance decades ago in accordance with the Soviet disarmament program. They targeted the metals inside and said they had had no idea about the money hidden in the shaft.

The men opened up the silo, neglecting the possible danger of ripping open a high radiation and toxins level enclosure.

Ukrainian Killed in Moscow Garbage Truck
A Ukrainian worker was killed in Moscow after accidentally getting into a garbage truck that crushed the hapless fellow to death, Russia's RIA-Novosti news agency reported Monday.

The accident took place at one of the city's garbage dumps. The worker fell into the collector of the Kamaz garbage truck when the press was working. He died instantly.

Mechanics Remove Grenade From Gas Tank After Russian Driver Complains of Car Malfunctions
A man from Moscow was driving his Audi for the whole day on Tuesday before mechanics removed a grenade installed in his car near the gasoline tank, Interfax news agency reported.

In the evening he drove to a service center and complained that his car was rattling. Workers began examining the vehicle and to their surprise found a grenade on a tripwire, which was broken and twisted around a wheel. Fortunately, this "failure" prevented the blast.

Russian Customer Finds Corpse in Secondhand Car From Japan
A customer from Moscow had his secondhand SUV from Japan delivered to his doors with a rather unpleasant surprise — a partially decomposed dead body of a man inside, the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reported on Sunday.

Russian Inventor Patents Invisibility Cloak

A professor from the department of quantum and optical electronics of the Ulyanovsk State University in western Russia has patented a method of making things invisible, Interfax news agency reported.

The so-called invisibility cloak, created by Oleg Gadomsky, is called "The method of conversion of optical radiation" in the patent.

Gadomsky had been long experimenting on nanoparticles of gold. He now claims to have invented a sub-micron stratum of microscopical colloid golden particles that makes an object placed behind it invisible to an observer.

"Only static objects can be made invisible for the time being, as during motion the radiation frequency changes. But soon it will be possible to create a cap of darkness and a magic cloak like Harry Potter's" the scientist believes.