The American sued 500 thousand dollars for the ridicule of doctors who did him a colonoscopy (a diagnostic procedure for examining the intestines) under anesthesia. Before the procedure, the patient turned on the voice recorder on his phone to record all the recommendations of the doctors when he recovered from anesthesia. On the way home from the hospital, he turned on the tape and found that the anesthesiologist and gastroenterologist mocked him during the procedure.

The Tumblr blog platform has launched a search and viewing service for Tumblr TV . Animated images are shown in full screen and automatically replace each other after a few seconds (but you can switch and manually). By default, the Tumblr.com/TV page shows the most popular GIFs at the moment. In the upper part of the page there is a search line into which you can drive a request and get your “channel”: for example, about cats or jellyfish .

The program "Vesti Nedeli" by Dmitry Kiselev received the Russian national television award TEFI as the best information program. The action "Immortal Regiment" was recognized as the event of the television season. In this nomination, the film “Crimea. Way home" about the accession of the peninsula to Russia. In the Documentary Project category, the award went to the film Brodsky Is Not a Poet.

Photo: Griner / Twitter AdWeek editor David Greener witnessed how the couple had sex on the Red Carpet of Cannes. After the picture he had scattered over the media and blogs, the journalist told in more detail what happened that evening. The photograph was taken at the end of a fairly long night, says Greener.

Raw footage of Sochi flooded Photo: Oleg Snigirev / TASS Heavy rains are drenching Sochi today, flooding the city and causing mayhem for locals and travelers alike. Rainfall normal for six weeks at this time of year has fallen in Sochi in the past day. Local officials have already declared an emergency situation in two regions hit particularly bad by flooding.

The mother of Sergeant Oleksandr Oleksandrov, who was detained in the Donbass in a battle with the Ukrainian military, told Reuters that her son never told her about his dismissal from the army. Zinaida Alexandrova spoke to reporters for the first time about the detention of her son. She noted that even if he left the service without telling her about it, the Russian authorities should not leave him. “I don't know what they (the authorities) are doing.

The Russian government has published a list of agricultural products whose imports are banned in response to Western sanctions against Russia. Compared to the previous list, the new list has changed slightly. The embargo continues to apply to products from the US, EU, Canada, Australia and Norway. Meat, fish, milk, vegetables and fruits remain under the ban.

Interview Governor of the Kaluga Region Anatoly Artamonov - Ilya Zheguleva Photo: Sergey Bobylev / Kommersant This year, the Kaluga region took second place in the ranking of the most attractive regions for investment. Meanwhile, investors who made the greatest contribution to the regional gross product - car manufacturers - were one of the main victims of the crisis.

Officials in Sochi have begun evacuating residents from flooded areas, where heavy rains have pummeled the city. Earlier today, the mayor and region’s acting governor met to discuss the crisis, announcing several emergency measures. Local officials are advising people in Sochi to remain in their homes, if possible, and to avoid in any event going near the coast, where tornadoes could form at sea and make their way to land, according to meteorologists.

Streets, station and airport are flooded. Photos and video Photo: Oleg Snigirev / TASS In Sochi on June 25, a flood caused by heavy rains began. A one and a half -month rainfall fell in the city, the water in the rivers exceeded the critical level by more than a meter. Local authorities announced an emergency regime in the Adler district and in the village of Kudepst of the Khostinsky district. In the affected areas, the evacuation of residents began.

Hollywood actress Rose McGowan has lost her agent after she tweeted an excerpt from a casting announcement. According to McGowan, her agent stopped working with her because she "talked about the shit that's going on in Hollywood." A week earlier, McGowan had tweeted about a casting call for a film featuring an actor whose name rhymes with "Madame Panhandler." The ad said that the contender for the role should be in clothes with a neckline showing the breasts, and preferably in a push-up bra.

Nearly 3,000 taxi drivers took part in a protest against the UberPOP app in France and blocked the entrances to many airports in the country. Including difficult entrances to the airports Charles de Gaulle and Orly in Paris. As follows from the video published by RT, several cars were smashed and set on fire during the protests. Ruptly TVFrance: Uber angry!

Photo: HBO Petersburger Alexander Kuzmin appealed to the Center for Expertise of St. Petersburg State University with a request to analyze a series of fantasy-facilities “The Song of Ice and Fire” and find out which of the heroes of the fictitious universe can claim the iron throne. Participants in the “War of the Five Kingdoms,” wrote Kuzmin, “have certain rights to the iron throne or at least justified claims to sovereignty”, but it is still unclear who is the legitimate king.

Ivan Stepanov, an employee at a children’s dental clinic in Moscow, says his coworkers attacked him after he wrote a complaint to the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin. In the letter, the 23-year old reported that there were only two dentists working in the clinic when it was supposed to be staffed by seven. As a result, each child receives just 15 minutes of attention during an appointment.

Separatists in Donetsk have blown up a large art installation by Cameroonian-born artist Pascale Marthine Tayou, who in 2012 transformed the top of a local smokestack into a lipstick tube. Tayou called the work of art “Transform!” and dedicated it to the women of Donetsk and their role in rebuilding the city after World War II. Pascale Martine Tayou "Make Up!" piece being destroyed by DPR paramilitaries in Donetsk from Izolyatsia on Vimeo .