Bassist Peter Hook will tour in support of his book, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division. A message about this appeared on the musician’s official website. The tour will begin on October 1, 2012, and the publication will go on sale on the same day. Hook will be signing copies of the book in stores in various British cities (including Manchester, London, Liverpool, Glasgow), as well as in Dublin.

Mosgosstroynadzor, which monitors traffic management projects (TMO) on the reconstructed outbound highways in Moscow, discovered violations amounting to 14.6 million rubles, RIA Novosti reports . We are talking about fines imposed on road companies since the beginning of 2012. According to the authorities, often when reconstructing highways, road workers do not update the markings or install new road signs.

US authorities announced the seizure of $150 million allegedly involved in a money laundering scheme for the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah . This is reported on the websites of the US Federal Prosecutor's Office and the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration Michelle Leonhart said that the Lebanese-Canadian Bank played a key role in the financial fraud.

Chemists have proposed using food-grade amphiphilic polysaccharides, which are used to make ice cream, as a means of combating oil spills. Scientists read a report on the results of their work at a conference of the American Chemical Society; ScienceNow writes briefly about its contents. Chemists face similar challenges when making ice cream and cleaning up an oil spill. It is necessary to stabilize substances that do not mix with it in water - milk fat (in the case of ice cream) or oil.

Farhad Akhmedov's REDI Holding company sent an official notice to Gazprom and its specialized subsidiaries demanding that they exercise the put option and buy out 49 percent of Northgas shares owned by REDI. The Vedomosti newspaper writes about this in its issue dated August 21 with reference to the letter. Akhmedov's concern company. The entrepreneur himself confirmed to the publication the information about the sale of Northgas.

The average Muscovite will be able to save up for an apartment located within the city in 11 and a half years. As stated in the message of the company "NDV-Real Estate", at the same time, a resident of the capital will have to live within the framework of strict cost savings. According to realtors, even in austerity mode, a city dweller will only be able to buy a budget one-room apartment in economy or comfort class.

A glossy magazine for Muslims, Muslim Magazine, began publishing in Moscow. The magazine was launched last week, towards the end of the month of Ramadan, reports IslamRF. The magazine presents lifestyle materials for modern Muslims: about fashion, entertainment, culture and lifestyle of believers. The pilot issue consists of 96 pages. It contains, in particular, interviews with American comedian Baba Ali and Dagestan designer Shamkhal Alikhanov .

A monument to right-hand drive has appeared in Vladivostok, NewsVL.ru reports. A bas-relief depicting a sailor raising the steering wheel in his right hand appeared on the wall of one of the houses on Sportivnaya Street and became part of the “Sportivka Inhabitant” project of the “33+1” art community. Under the bas-relief is the inscription “Right forever!” According to the author of the project, artist Pavel Shugurov, it is planned to make eight bas-reliefs in total.

Nikon will release a compact camera running the Android operating system, Nikon Rumors writes, citing anonymous sources. Judging by the image published by the publication, from the rear the device will look like a smartphone. It will receive a touch screen, under which there will be three hardware buttons: “Menu”, “Home” and “Back”. The device in the image uses Android 2.3 OS. You can see shortcuts to the Camera, Contacts, Mail, and Calendar programs.

Hackers attacked British government websites in retaliation for the fact that London is preventing Julian Assange from traveling to Ecuador and is planning to extradite him to Sweden, where he awaits trial. This was reported by Sky News. The websites of the Ministry of Justice, the Prime Minister, and the Ministry of Work and Pensions were targeted by the cyber attack. The Justice Ministry said its website was operating intermittently. Other sites survived the attack.

Universal Studios has offered Jim Carrey one of the roles in the sequel to the film “Kick-Ass,” according to Deadline. The film "Kick-Ass" was based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and was released in 2010. The film was about a teenager who decided to become a superhero and go fight evil. However, he did not possess any superpowers. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn (Stardust, X-Men: First Class).

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) began collecting data on television audiences in Moscow through mobile phones equipped with a special program. reported this Vedomosti . Currently, VTsIOM measures its audience using thousands of mobile devices located in 300 Moscow households. The center uses mobile phones running the Android operating system with a special application that recognizes TV noise (similar to the Shazam application for recognizing music).

The Dutch Cultural Memory Foundation in Frisia (a province in the north of the country) discovered a painting that may be by Rembrandt. This was reported on the website of the publication De Telegraaf. The painting depicts the wife of the Dutch painter Saskia van Uylenburg, who often posed for her husband. The existence of this portrait was previously unknown. The foundation learned about the painting from a collector whose name has not been disclosed.

President of the Minchenko Consulting holding Evgeny Minchenko and his colleague Kirill Petrov prepared a report on the current political situation in Russia. According to the authors of the report, the country is now ruled by the Politburo. Russian President Vladimir Putin Experts assigned the role of arbiter and moderator to , who resolves disputes between clans. The report was published in its entirety on the Kommersant website.

Internet users from St. Petersburg Evgeny Mironenko and Artemy Bukhankov presented a personal emoticon for the city governor Georgy Poltavchenko , the online newspaper The Village reports. The emoji includes a parenthesis, a colon, and a curly brace - (:{. The latter symbolizes the mustache that the governor wears. The authors of the emoticon use it in comments on news posted on social networks.