Iceland lost to France in the quarter-finals of the European Football Championship. The match ended with the score 5:2. Olivier Giroud opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Paul Pogba widened the gap in the 20th minute. At the end of the first half, the French scored two goals in a row. Dimitri Payet scored in the 43rd minute. And in the 45th minute, Antoine Griezmann scored the fourth goal for the French. He threw the Icelandic goalkeeper.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is 25 years old. The leading actor Arnold Schwarzenegger on his Facebook congratulated the filmmakers on their anniversary and posted a video clip from the filming. “I will always be proud of this film and the wonderful team that worked on it, especially my friend James Cameron [film director], the cast and other team members. Thanks for the incredible memories guys," the actor wrote.

Icelanders flew out with the euro, but did it very worthy Iceland! Iceland! Iceland! This is so that it is clear who we are for today in today's quarter-finals of Euro 2016. Iceland, which has already created several miracles, meets with France. We look at the most unpredictable quarter -final together! July 4, 2016 00:00:19 Bye! July 4, 2016 00:00:10 Hu will still fly over Europe! July 3, 2016 23:59:00 In general, thanks for watching with us! It was exciting and very spiritually lifting.

Eight players from the Cuban men's volleyball team have been arrested in Finland on suspicion of aggravated rape. The police reported that the incident took place at a hotel in the city of Tampere, where the Cuban team was staying. One person is injured in the case. Other details are not reported. Three players were detained on Saturday morning. According to the Associated Press, they were arrested. Another five volleyball players were detained on Sunday.

On July 2, Germany and Italy met in the quarter-finals of Euro 2016. None of them managed to win in regular and stoppage time - after 120 minutes of the game the score was 1:1. As a result of the penalty shootout , Germany won , with each team shooting nine times - after the first five attempts, each of the teams converted only two.

American tennis player Serena Williams won her 300th Grand Slam victory by beating Germany's Annika Beck in the third round of Wimbledon. Williams won in straight sets 6-3, 6-0. Williams overtook American tennis player Chris Evert, who won 299 Grand Slam matches in her career. The record belongs to Martina Navratilova, who won 306 matches. The Grand Slam tournaments in tennis are called the Australian Open, the French Open, the US Open and Wimbledon.

The Yabloko party has published a list of its candidates for the elections to the State Duma, which will be held on September 18. The federal part of the list is headed by the founder of the party, Grigory Yavlinsky. The second number is the chairman of the party Emilia Slabunova, the third is the politician Vladimir Ryzhkov. Next on the list are Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, and former party chairman Sergei Mitrokhin.

As a result of explosions in Baghdad that occurred on the night of July 3, at least 136 people were killed. This is reported by Al Jazeera, citing sources in the police and medical services. According to the agency, 131 people died as a result of the explosion in the Karada area, where at the time of the explosion it was crowded due to the fact that local residents fast and visit restaurants only after sunset. The BBC reports 125 victims of this explosion.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, a boat with six tourists capsized on the Chegem River. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, three people died, three managed to escape. According to preliminary data, one of the dead was a local resident, the other two came from the Krasnodar Territory. Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the descent along the river was unauthorized.

The militants who killed 20 people in a cafe in Dhaka are not affiliated with the Islamic State or al-Qaeda. This was stated by Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan. According to the minister, the militants belonged to the local Islamist organization Jamaat-ul-Mujahidin. Reuters notes that this organization calls itself the representatives of the Islamic State in Bangladesh. According to the police, five of the seven attackers were known to the authorities as members of illegal armed groups.

The second flight recorder of the Il-76 aircraft, which crashed on July 1, was found in the Irkutsk region. This was reported by the operational headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Earlier, an Interfax source in law enforcement agencies said that it would be possible to establish the causes of the disaster only after deciphering the "black boxes". He explained that the plane was refueled "to the eyeballs", which is why the plane burned down after the fall.

The FSB of Russia in the Vologda Oblast opened 10 criminal cases against members of the lumberjacks' artel, who were detained on suspicion of supporting the Islamic State (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization). Cases have been initiated, in particular, under articles on assistance to terrorist activities and illicit arms trafficking. The FSB clarified that there were four detainees - a Russian and three immigrants from Dagestan.

Photostory Anait Ayrapetyan about life in Nagorno -Karabakh Photo: Anait Ayrapetyan / 4plus In April 2016, in Nagorno-Karabakh, after a 22-year break, full-scale battles resumed. The advance of the Army of Azerbaijan (in Baku it was argued that it was started in response to shelling by the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; the Armenian side refuted this) for four days, tanks, artillery and helicopters were used in battles.

On the island of Viti Levu in Fiji, the bodies of Russians Yuri Shipulin and his wife Natalya, who disappeared in mid-June, were found. The fact that the found remains belong to them was confirmed by DNA analysis, Xinhua reports. The disappearance of the couple became known in mid-June, when their business partner contacted the police. He reported that the Shipulins had not returned to their farm.

Photo: Maxim Grigoryev / TASS on July 3 on the slope of the hill in the remote area of ​​the Irkutsk region, the fragments of the Il-76 aircraft, which disappeared on July 1 during extinguishing forest fires, were found. There were ten people on board, none of them survived. On July 4, it was announced in the region of the day of mourning.