It's now official: there is no truth to the rumor that space travelers engage in sex. "We do not have such experiments in our country," said Valery Bogomolov, deputy head of the Institute of Bio-Medial Problems, commenting on a widely circulated document on the internet about an alleged 1996 sex experiment made by NASA on 10 sexual positions. "There is no proof. . . that on any mission cosmonauts had sex," he told a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday, Interfax reported. "Cosmonauts, too, are regular people, but. . . I have not heard about any sex in orbit. "

Running on a Russian tank engine, a giant motorcycle dubbed as Led Zeppelin by its creator has been duly acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest motorbike. The bike weighs four-and-a-half ton and measures 17 feet four inches long by seven feet six inches tall prompting creator Tilo Nieber, to remark, "You don't get much more heavy metal than this. "

The first South Korean who will fly to space next year will take and eat kimchi. Goh San, 31, made the spicy revelation during an interview in Moscow with local newspaper Dong-A Ilbo on Monday. Goh said he and two Russian cosmonauts will have sterilized and irradiated version of the traditional Korean fermented vegetable dish aboard their spaceship.

Just days before their match against Romania, the Russian national rugby team are scrambling to for spare shoes after thieves reportedly stole have stolen several of their players' boots and other sporting gears. According to the payers of the Russian team, nine pairs of boots and other gear disappeared from the team's hotel in Bucharest during a power cut.

Russian authorities have annulled the nuptial of a couple who were recently married in a town in Moscow after authorities discovered the groom was actually the grandson of the bride. Failing to check on their background, registry office officials allowed Boris Golovska, 30, to marry his 79-year-old grandmother Katarina in the town of Vladimir, east of Moscow.