A bill has been submitted to the State Duma proposing to amend Article 458 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Russia on "sending criminal case materials for criminal prosecution," Kommersant reports . At the moment, the article only concerns foreign citizens. It states that if a foreigner commits a crime on Russian territory, after which he manages to leave the country, the materials of the criminal case brought against him are transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office.

Seriously ill American Caroline Markle persuaded her husband Mil Markle to register on a dating site so that he would not be lonely after her death. The Guardian told the unusual story of how Mil met his future wife. The publication writes that Carolyn and Mil got married two years after they met, in 1989. However, four years later, Mil noticed that his wife was "walking strangely." She also didn't notice when the traffic light turned green. Carolyn was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

The US-Russia prisoner swap talks lasted more than a year, and initially the parties planned to carry out a smaller deal. Alexei Navalny was indeed included in it. The New York Times (NYT) shares details about the "historic spy swap". For more than a year, the United States and Russia conducted a dialogue in various ways. For example, the parties exchanged secret messages that were obtained by special couriers. Some proposals were transmitted directly through intelligence officers.

The mother of eight children and Mrs. America gave an interview. Now her husband is suspected of psychological violence American Hannah Nilman leads the Ballerina Farm blog about her family, household and the farm on which she lives. Immediately after the birth of an eighth child, she took part in the Mrs. World contest. In social networks, her Heili for the popularization of the traditional way and large families, recalling that her husband’s father is a billionaire.

GLAAD, a leading non-profit organization for LGBTQ rights in the United States, spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on the personal expenses of its president, Sarah Kate Ellis. She stays in luxury hotels and flies business class on donor money, The New York Times reports . Journalists learned that Ellis spends money on her trips from the GLAAD budget, which is about $30 million per year. Thus, the organization paid for a trip to the Swiss Alps in January 2023 with this money.

Taiwanese athlete Lin Yuting, who was stripped of her bronze medal at the World Championships last year due to gender inconsistency, has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics. The results of the fight have been published on the official website of the 2024 Olympics. On August 2, Lin Yuting met her opponent from Uzbekistan Sitora Turdibekova in the 1/8 finals of the Olympic boxing tournament in the weight category up to 57 kilograms. The fight ended with a score of 5:0.

In the village of Pojate, near the Serbian town of Cicevac, police arrested a woman who had concealed her mother's death for two years and continued to receive her pension, the Serbian newspaper Blic.rs reported . According to the publication, the woman, born in 1958, whose name is not specified, wrapped her mother's body in a blanket and left it on her bed at home. The mother herself died on June 28, 2022.

The American company Google stated that the failures in the work of its video hosting service YouTube "are not the result of any technical problems" on its part. Representatives of the company told about this in a conversation with Kommersant journalists. Russian users began complaining en masse about YouTube outages on August 1: videos began loading slowly or not playing at all.

Federation Council member Dmitry Savelyev was detained on suspicion of involvement in organizing a murder, RIA Novosti reported , citing law enforcement agencies. According to the agency, before the arrest, the Federation Council lifted Savelyev's immunity. This decision was made at the request of Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov. Senator Andrei Klishas said that the prosecutor's office presented the Federation Council with copies of the materials of the criminal case against Savelyev.

Vladimir Putin knew about the preparations for the exchange of Alexei Navalny for Russian prisoners in European jails on the eve of the opposition politician's transfer to a remote Siberian penal colony. Businessman Roman Abramovich spoke with the Russian president about the exchange no later than early December 2023, sources close to the negotiations told The Wall Street Journal.

Vladimir Putin considers killer Vadim Krasikov, who was sentenced to life in prison in Germany, his friend and a special symbol for Russia. This is reported by The New York Times (NYT) with reference to an anonymous source close to the Kremlin. The source who gave the information to the journalists also took part in some of the prisoner exchange negotiations.

Doctors at Royston Veterinary Centre in the UK have started using artificial intelligence to diagnose diseases in pets. They have observed that they are getting results faster and their diagnoses are more accurate, especially in pets with cancer, the BBC reports . To diagnose a pet, a tissue sample is taken. The sample is then examined under a microscope — only this is not done by veterinarians, but by artificial intelligence.

Oxford University professor Mark Merroney has made an archaeological discovery that challenges historians' understanding of the peace that existed between the Roman Empire and the Celts of Wales. The Guardian reported on excavations that Oxford's leading expert on the history of ancient Britain began at the site of a Roman fort found in the region. The excavations are underway in Pembrokeshire, on the western tip of the Welsh peninsula.

The released Russian political prisoners who arrived in Germany after a large-scale exchange between Russia, Europe and the United States have been taken to a hospital and will be held there for some time, the Dozhd TV channel and the Meduza publication reported, citing sources familiar with the situation. The Russians and German citizens who were brought to Cologne from Turkey on the evening of August 1 never came out to the people waiting outside the airport.

The astronauts had to return a week after the start, but the engines refused the ship, and the mission went not according to plan American astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been forced to live at the International Space Station (ISS) for more than 50 days. They became the first astronauts aboard the Starliner spacecraft, which was created by Boeing, which is now criticized due to a scandal with aircraft safety.