The Taliban government has banned mixed martial arts, saying they are incompatible with Islamic law, the head of Afghanistan's General Directorate of Physical Culture and Sports, Ahmadullah Wasig, told local television station TOLOnews. The decision was made after an inspection of MMA for compliance with Sharia law, the official explained.

In Florida, 30-year-old Wade Wilson was sentenced to death for the murder of two women, Fox4 reports . The killer was nicknamed "Deadpool" because he is the exact same as the Marvel superhero played by Ryan Reynolds. A jury found Wilson guilty of murdering Christine Melton and Diane Ruhe, after which Judge Nicholas Thompson sent him to death row.

Electronic cigarettes can cause lung disease, EVALI, the Russian Ministry of Health warned . The symptoms of the disease resemble COVID-19 - patients suffer from fever, cough, shortness of breath, and also feel weak and unwell, the department's specialists clarified. The first cases of the mass disease EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury) were first noted back in 2019.

The Russian Ministry of Health intends to include vaccination against the human papillomavirus in the national calendar of preventive vaccinations from 2026. This was stated by the chief freelance gynecologist of children and adolescents of the Ministry of Health Elena Uvarova, Interfax reports . The doctor specified that the date could change, and the year in the plan is indicated "carefully". Until now, HPV vaccination in Russia has not been carried out centrally with a domestic drug.

Singer Yulia Chicherina was presented with a Chanel bag. The corresponding video appeared on the Telegram channel "Cross of a Russian soldier (Peter)", after which Chicherina reposted it to her Telegram channel. The Insider drew attention to this. "A trophy bag from the French! For Yulia Chicherina!" the caption to the video reads.

The fortune of the main shareholder of Uralsib Bank, Lyudmila Kogan, has reached a billion dollars, Forbes calculated . She has become a new female billionaire and has taken sixth place in the ranking of the richest women in the country according to the publication. The basis of Lyudmila Kogan's fortune is a controlling stake in one of the largest Russian banks, Uralsib, which she inherited after the death of her husband, the famous businessman Vladimir Kogan, in 2019.

According to the National Police Agency, 37,227 people died in the country in the first half of 2024 while left alone at home, the BBC reports . According to the publication, almost four thousand people of the total number were found more than a month after their death, and the death of another 130 people became known only a year later. At the same time, 40% of people were found within one day. More than 70% of the deceased were people aged 65 and over.

The bodies of a 27-year-old woman and her seven-year-old daughter were found in the city of Chusovoy in Perm Krai. A man previously convicted of murder, 27-year-old Artem Buchin, has been declared wanted. The publication 59.ru writes that he is a former Wagner PMC fighter. The Investigative Committee for Perm Krai did not specify why Buchin was specifically put on the wanted list. The report stated that he was suspected of committing a particularly serious crime.

Festive assemblies to mark the start of the new school year in Moscow will take place not on the street, as is usually the case, but in school buildings. This is reported by RBC, citing Moscow teachers. "This year the format will be somewhat unconventional: all assemblies, including the main assembly for grades 1 through 11, will be held indoors.

The Russian Academy of Sciences has found a positive effect in the consequences of global warming. An average annual increase in air temperature by one degree will increase the volume of gross domestic product by 1.2 trillion rubles, according to a report by the Institute of Economic Forecasting, which RBC writes about.

Vladimir Putin is due to visit Mongolia on September 3. He has been assured that the authorities will not arrest him on a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Bloomberg reports , citing two anonymous sources close to the Kremlin. As the publication notes, this is Vladimir Putin's first visit to an ICC member country after the court issued arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova in March 2023.

Indignation and dissatisfaction with the actions of the Russian authorities at the end of August reached the levels seen during the start of the 2022 mobilization, according to research by state sociologists. The Public Opinion Foundation published the results of its own weekly survey on August 30. Now, in the midst of military actions in the Kursk region, 28% of Russians express dissatisfaction with the actions of the executive authorities, according to published figures.

Passengers on a liner due to set off on a three-year round-the-world cruise in May this year have been waiting three months in Belfast for the journey to begin, The Guardian and the BBC report. The Odyssey, operated by US cruise company Villa Vie Residences, was due to set sail from the Northern Irish capital on May 30. However, technical problems have delayed the start of the voyage. Tourists are allowed to spend the day on the liner, but at night they are asked to leave the ship.

He was an alcoholic, and I tried to protect myself and my family, but now I live with a feeling of guilt People whose loved ones suffer from alcohol dependence are often difficult to break off relations with them, even if they are in danger in these relations. 39-year-old Marina from Nizhny Novgorod all her childhood and youth lived with her father who drank and beat her mother-and nevertheless remained for her a loved one.

Following a denunciation by activists of the nationalist movement "Russian Community", the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the owners of the Samara restaurant chain "Sushkin sЫn" for insulting religious feelings. This was reported on the agency's Telegram channel.