Daimler has announced a voluntary recall of three million diesel-powered Mercedes in Europe for technical upgrades. We are talking about updating the software that controls emissions, according to The New York Times. The company will spend about 220 million euros on the work.

American businessman Andrew Paulson, one of the founders of the Afisha publishing house and SUP, has died. Alexei Kazakov, former editor-in-chief of Bolshoy Gorod, wrote about this on Facebook. to him According , the cause of death was cancer. Andrew Paulson was born in 1958 in the USA. In the mid-1990s, he began working in the Russian media as a manager - in particular, he directed the issue of the Vechernyaya Moskva magazine about urban entertainment, which closed after the 1998 crisis.

The Tobolsk District Court of the Tyumen Region on July 17 sentenced the administrator of "suicidal publics" Philip Budeikin (Lis) to three years and four months in a colony-settlement for driving to suicide. This was reported on the evening of July 18 by the website 72.ru. “During the trial, it was possible to prove the guilt and involvement of the young man in two episodes in which he persuaded teenage girls to have suicidal thoughts,” the assistant judge told reporters.

A letter from 1,544 students, graduate students and teachers of Moscow State University in support of the mathematician Dmitry Bogatov, who was arrested for inciting terrorism, has been sent to the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Lobanov, a lecturer at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, reported this to Mediazone, who took the letter to the presidential administration.

European Medical Center / YouTube Urologist Alexey Zhivov Facebook has blocked the page of Alexey Zhivov, a well-known surgeon, urologist, and oncologist based outside Moscow, because he posted photographs in a closed group showing the results of an unsuccessful operation on a man’s urethra. Head physician of the Elias Hospital, Zhivov posted the content in a private Facebook group where doctors discuss professional issues.

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Saudi Arabian police have detained a woman who was caught on video walking down the street in a short skirt, top and bare head. During interrogation, she stated that the video was published without her knowledge, CNN reports a police report. She also said that, as required by the rules, she was accompanied on the street by a male relative. Update. On July 19, the Saudi police announced that the woman had been released without charge. The case against her was closed.

Photo in the announcement: Alexander Tarasenkov / Photobank Lori in Russia began to plant much more often for crimes against the state. The statistics of the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of Russia were drawn by the “team 29” , whose lawyers protect the accused under these articles of the Criminal Code. The crimes against the state include stateisms, espionage, public calls for extremism, the organization of the activities of an extremist organization and others.

James Franco took off the tragicomedy “Woe-Creta”, telling about the process of creating the film Tommy Waiso “Room” , which is called the standard of mediocre cinema. The main role in the “Woe-Creator” was played by Franco himself. The film trailer shows unsuccessful attempts to shoot one scene: the main character constantly forgets the simple line and is forced to enter the frame again and again.

Chris J Ratcliffe / Pool / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Bank of England on July 18 presented a new polymer banknote with a dignity of 10 pounds with the image of writer Jane Austin. On the previous, paper version of the bill there was a portrait of Charles Darwin. The presentation of the banknote was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Austin’s death and passed in the Cathedral of Wincheter, where it was buried. On September 14, it will go into the revolution of the bill.

European Medical Center / YouTube urologist Alexei Zhivov The page of the head physician of the Ilyinsky hospital in the suburbs, a well -known surgeon, urologist and oncologist Alexei Zhivov was blocked on Facebook - for a post in a closed group about the unsuccessful operation of the male urethra; The record was accompanied by a photograph from the operation.

The United Russia party began to promote its official Facebook page with the help of advertising with Varis from the Game of Thrones. The advertising post claims that it is better to read the official page with “insides” than anonymous telegram channels. Varis is an adviser to Daenerys Targaryen from the Game of Thrones. Under Robert Baratheon and King Joffrey, he was responsible for espionage and intelligence.

The arbitration court in The Hague ordered Russia to pay the Netherlands 5.39 million euros in compensation for the detention in 2013 of the Arctic Sunrise ship (it sails under the flag of the Netherlands) with Greenpeace activists on board. the decision made on The press service of the court announced July 10 on July 18.

In the cathedral choir in Regensburg, Bavaria, between 1945 and the early 1990s, at least 547 boys were victims of adult abuse. This was announced by the lawyer Ulrich Weber, hired by the local diocese to investigate. Weber was able to identify 47 episodes of sexual violence and 500 cases of other physical violence. Most of the victims were primary school students at the choir's boarding school. The lawyer identified 49 people who carried out the violence.