What the Olympic facilities will meet the fans in 2012 in London. 1. Aerial view of the Olympic Stadium. 80 000 spectators can watch here for various sporting events during the Summer Olympic Games in 2012. (Tom Shaw / EPA) 2. Balloons in the morning sky over London July 25. Exactly one year before the Olympic Games seven balloons rose into the air above the city in a joint project between Greater London Authority, the London of Heavenly Orchestra and the organizing committee of the anniversary of the 30th London International Theatre Festival. (Andrew Winning / Reuters) 3. Olympic mascot Venlok (left) and the Paralympic mascot Mandeville at a school in London. Olympic mascots were created from the last drops were left over after construction of the last props Olympic Stadium.

40-year-old artist and owner of a small menagerie in the town Vasilevka (Zaporozhye region), Alexander Pylyshenko yesterday began an experiment to co-host in the same cage with nine lioness Katya. According to some sources the artist wants to get into the Guinness Book of Records, on the other - thus collects the money for real, "big" zoo. At noon, Alexander bade farewell to his mother and wife, and then entered the cage, which is sealed. Pylyshenko expects to spend together with a lioness for 35 days. The situation complicates the fact that the lioness Kate is pregnant and is going to give birth soon.