In 2017, the intelligence services of the United Arab Emirates and France hacked the phone of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and a year later, French President Emmanuel Macron met him for lunch and offered to move the messenger's headquarters to France. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing its sources. According to the publication, Durov refused.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region has issued an official apology to Dmitry Bakhtin, the father of a child with SMA, for whom the parents sought treatment, including through street protests. This was reported by the publication "7x7". Misha Bakhtin's parents had been trying for a long time to get the state to provide him with the expensive treatment for spinal muscular atrophy that he was entitled to under the law.

Students in Moscow and the Moscow region spend an average of 51.6 thousand rubles on renting an apartment, RBC reported , citing data from the Yandex Rent service. NDV Real Estate Supermarket has similar data: the average rental price for students varies from 50 to 55 thousand rubles. It is reported that Yandex Rent data was collected based on anonymous questionnaires of students who rented apartments through Yandex Real Estate.

He won a large grant for his research, and Time recognized him as a "child of the year" A few years ago, the American teenager Heman Bekele came up with a soap that could help people in the early stages of skin cancer. Now he is 15 years old: he won a grant of 25 thousand dollars, found a curator, conducts research on mice and wants to make his invention accessible to everyone. Time magazine called him a "child of the year." "Cold" retells its story.

Astrakhan Region Governor Igor Babushkin called the party at the Bunker nightclub, where four visitors stripped naked in one of the contests, "immoral" and threatened to prosecute them. The SHOT Telegram channel reported the details of the party. According to the Telegram channel, the host of the party held a contest in which he was giving away an iPhone. The contest participants had to take off all their clothes and dance on stage with a pole.

The Taliban have banned women from speaking in public, showing their faces, and wearing thin clothing, the BBC reports, citing the law "On the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," which was approved by Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada on August 21. The law sets out a number of requirements for women's appearance and behavior, including provisions on what they can listen to, photograph, and look at.

An auction in Los Angeles to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the TV series Friends has been announced, which will include a replica of the famous orange sofa from the Central Perk coffee shop and Chandler's grey sweater, The Telegraph reports . It is noted that the sofa is one of the main lots with an estimated value of 3 thousand dollars. The gray sweater worn by the character of the late actor Matthew Perry Chandler is estimated at 1.5 thousand dollars.

The management of the Telegram messenger refuses to join international programs aimed at detecting and removing materials containing violence against children from the Internet. This was reported by the BBC without citing a source. The publication claims that Telegram does not cooperate with either the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or its British counterpart, the Internet Watch Foundation.

Singer Nastya Ermak, who was attacked in the metro by former police officer Vladimir Safonov in early July, was fined 15 thousand rubles, and the attacker only a thousand. This was reported by Moskovsky Komsomolets and confirmed by Ermak herself.

The FSB border service database, which recently leaked online, also contained flight data for Vladimir Putin's relatives - daughters, sons-in-law and ex-wife. They were soon deleted, but the Agency publication managed to save them. The leak shows that Putin's daughters Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova, as well as his ex-wife Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, made dozens of flights abroad and back every year before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The list of risk indicators that may become a reason for an on-site inspection of an employer for violation of mandatory requirements in the sphere of labor law needs to be expanded.

A child accidentally broke an ancient Bronze Age amphora in an Israeli museum that is at least 3,500 years old, the BBC Russian Service reports . An incident with an extremely rare artifact occurred in the Hecht Museum in Haifa. They said the amphora was a valuable exhibit. The jug was made no earlier than 2200 and no later than 1500 BC. At the same time, the vessel has survived to this day almost in its original form.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been released and placed under judicial supervision; he is prohibited from leaving France, BFMTV reports , citing the Paris prosecutor's office. Durov will have to post bail of 5 million euros and will also be required to visit the police twice a week. The prosecutor's statement also said that Durov faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 500,000 euros.

Five major players came to the place of Hydra, one of them dear to the world leader. There are more prohibited substances The closure of the world's largest HYDRA drug maiden and the war in Ukraine launched an aggressive redistribution of the drug market in Russia.

The refusal of the Russian authorities to admit to deliberate actions to slow down YouTube has led to telecom operators independently implementing solutions designed to speed up the video hosting service, the Kommersant newspaper writes , citing its own sources among market participants. According to them, the number of cases when telecom operators independently "bypass" YouTube slowdowns is in the tens.