Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company sold its 1 billionth iPhone last week. The fact that sales of Apple smartphones are about to reach a billion copies was reported by the Financial Times on July 24. The publication reported that 40 million iPhones will be announced in the third quarter of the fiscal year (a report published later says 40.399 million), and the number of iPhones sold will reach 987 million by the end of June.

Latvia's State Language Center has fined Nils Ušakovs, the mayor of Riga, for using the Russian language in social media accounts belonging to the Riga city council. Ušakovs, who says he learned about the fine from reporters, says the language center acted illegally and he plans to appeal the fine. “The law on the state language doesn't say a word about regulations on the language of the government's communications with its citizens over foreign social networks,” the mayor argued.

The authors of the Loot Crate Productions channel released a parody of the trailer for the film “Suicide Squad” with characters from Tarantino films. Instead of the usual Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Joker and other villains, the bride and Gogo Yubari from “Kill Bill”, Django, Juls Vinfield from Crime Fix and Aldo Rhine from “inglorious bastards” entered the fan trailer. In the video was Tarantino himself.

On July 27, Turkish authorities closed 16 TV channels, 23 radio stations, 45 newspapers, 15 magazines, 29 publishing houses and three news agencies. It is reported by Cumhuriyet. The government's right to ban the distribution of media is provided for by the state of emergency that was declared in Turkey after the military coup attempt. Among the closed publications were the agency and radio Cihan, the newspapers Zaman and Todayʼs Zaman, which are part of the Feza holding.

Islamist news agency Amaq released a video in which two people who attacked a church in Normandy on July 26 swear allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (an organization banned in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization). According to AFP, in the video, one of them takes an oath in Arabic with a strong foreign accent. There is no official confirmation that the attackers are depicted on the recording.

Two years ago, on November 12, 2014, the descent of the Phil module disconnected from the Rosetta probe and landed on the comet Churumov-Gerasimenko-for the first time in the history of mankind. True, then everything went wrong as planned. “Phil” could not land at the planned point and eventually found himself in the shade. Due to the lack of energy, he went into sleep regime a few days later, and from July 9, 2015, the module generally stopped communicating.

In Yerevan, one of the ambulance workers was released, who was taken hostage by members of the Sasna Tsrer group, which seized the police department on July 17. “The nurse David Tonoyan, taken hostage, has been released,” Interfax quoted the Armenian Ministry of Health as saying. Two doctors and a nurse remain hostage. Armed members of the Sasna Tsrer group have been holding the police station in Yerevan since July 17.

On the afternoon of July 27, Afisha published the text “How to return peace to the Patriarch’s Ponds: Gafin, Livesey, Ass and other neighbors are arguing.” In it, residents of a Moscow microdistrict, located next to the pond of the same name, discuss the current problems - and several times this problem turns out to be “outsiders”, residents of other areas who come to the Patriarch’s. The material became one of the most discussed on social networks of the day, and it is easy to understand why.

International sports federations have approved the participation of 250 Russian athletes in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. About this, according to Interfax, the head of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov said on the air of Rossiya-24. Whether this number can be considered final is not reported. It is not known, in particular, whether these athletes have passed additional doping tests, as required by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

If you thought that experts in the intellectual game “What? Where? When?" They differ from ordinary people, we have evidence of the opposite: Pokemonia has affected even them. It all started with the post of master of the game Maxim Potashev, who wrote poems about Pikachu and Charmanter: “Picking up in the hands of a brick, Karaul Pikachu. Without reliable bastards and faith You will not catch Charmanter.

Latvia's State Language Center has fined Nils Ušakovs, the mayor of Riga, for using the Russian language in social media accounts belonging to the Riga city council. Ušakovs, who says he learned about the fine from reporters, says the language center acted illegally and he plans to appeal the fine. “The law on the state language doesn't say a word about regulations on the language of the government's communications with its citizens over foreign social networks,” the mayor argued.

Petersburzhenka Inna Lvovna complained about the statue of naked David near the church of St. Anna on Kirochny Street. The 200-kilogram copy of the statue of David was installed in the courtyard of the Lutheran Church of St. Anna in May 2016 as part of the exhibition Michelangelo. Creation of the world. " A sculpture five meters high is made of plastic. The woman was told about the discontent on the website of the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child in St. Petersburg.

Why did the nationalists try to disrupt the action of the Orthodox: the report "Medusa" Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On Wednesday, July 27, in Kyiv the procession ended, organized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate - the most numerous church in the country, which is considered to be pro -Russian. Three weeks ago, two columns of believers moved to the capital from the west and east of the country to meet with the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

In Armenia, armed opposition 11th day hold the police station Photo: Photo: Vaan Stepanyan / Pan Photo members of the Sasna Tsare group on the territory of the seized police station in Yerevan In Yerevan, the 11th day is continuing the confrontation between the authorities and the armed opposition, who captured the police station. On the night of July 27, a new shootout occurred between the parties. Near the captured site, people arrange protests every day.

In Baltimore, prosecutors dropped charges against three police officers in the case of the death of 25-year-old African American Freddie Gray, who died in April 2015 after being detained. Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said the decision to drop the charges was "wrenching" but said that after the other three defendants were acquitted, the chances of winning the remaining trials were too slim.