There are new flash mob in social networks: you need to tie your fingers with a knot (and it is advisable not to break anything). Like this: "Today I found what I can do like this with my left hand" The picture with the call to readers at the end of July was published by the Nigerian blog about Kraks viral materials. A few days later, I tried to make a Chinese TV star Lee Sisi. She laid out her fingers in the Weibo social network. And now hundreds of users from China are repeated behind it.

The Unicode consortium has published a list of 67 emojes, which are recommended to include in the 11th version of the standard. Among them there is a poop with a sad face! In addition to her, in the list of superhero and supervision, lama, raccoon, kangaroo, hippo, parrot, mango, solo, compass, Petri cup, plush bear and other animals, plants and objects. Also among sentences are modifiers that allow others to add emoji red and curly hair, gray hair or bald head.

Tony Cornell, the daughter of Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, who committed suicide on May 18, performed at the Good Morning America festival along with the ONEREPULIC group. Tony Cornell and the frontman of the group Ryan Tedder sang a duet - in memory of two friends - Cornell and committed suicide vocalist Linkin Park Chester Bennington.

The Russian bank Otkritie is negotiating to attract a new investor to the capital. Bloomberg reported this, as Interfax writes, citing its own sources. Information about the negotiations was confirmed to RBC by a source close to the bank. According to The Bell, before the deal, the founder of the bank, Vadim Belyaev, will return to operational management, replacing Alexey Karakhan as chairman of the board of Otkrytie Holding.

Stefan Lindblom / Scanpix / Leta Queen Margreta II and her husband Prince Henrik Henrik, Prince Danish decided that after death he did not want to be buried next to his wife - Queen Denmark Margreta II. While both of them are hello: Henrik - 83 years old, his wife is 77 years old. Henri Marie Jean Andre and Princess Margreta met in London in the 1960s. The Frenchman worked at the embassy, ​​and the Danes studied at the London School of Economics. They got married in 1967.

A resident of Ingushetia, Mukharbek Evloev, who was sentenced to six years in a strict regime colony in February 2017 for kidnapping his wife's sister, Elizaveta Aliyeva, has been released. This was reported by Mediazona with reference to the human rights organization "Legal Initiative in Russia". Sources in law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia told human rights activists about the release of Yevloev. Whether something is known about his whereabouts is not specified.

Skas / Wikimedia Commons (CC by-SA 4.0) On August 1, it became known that a journalist and decorator Daria Filippova was appointed to the post of director of the Sochi National Park reserve. Her experience in the environmental sphere was exhausted exactly one month - before the appointment, she was the deputy Minister of Nature of Crimea. Several ecologists told Kommersant that Filippova is supposedly the niece of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Dmitry Rogozin.

Christophe Saidi / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta Neymar officially officially became a PSG player and the most expensive football player in history. August 4, Paris, August 4, 2017. On the evening of August 3, the French football club PSG officially announced the transition of the Brazilian striker Neymar. The transfer of the now former player Barcelona cost 222 million euros and exceeded the previous record.

A police officer from the British county of South Yorkshire pleaded guilty to violating labor discipline. He was accused of spying on naked people from a service helicopter. According to BBC News, 50-year-old Adrien Pogmore used a police helicopter to film sunbathing women. In addition, he filmed a naked couple relaxing in nature, and people having sex on the open veranda of their house. All of these incidents date back to 2007 and 2008.

Frank Augstein / AP / Scanpix / Leta In May 2017, 22-year-old Briton Markus Hatchins became famous, stopping the spread of the Wannacry virus . This virus infected computers around the world, encrypted data on a hard drive and demanded a ransom. Tens of thousands of computers were infected. If not for Hatchins, there would be much more of them. The security specialist found a request to an unregistered domain in the virus code.

A court in London refused to extradite Georgy Shuppe, the son-in-law of the late businessman Boris Berezovsky, to Russia. In Russia, Shuppe has been put on the wanted list in connection with the murder of Alexander Mineev, the founder of the Party and Domino chain of stores. The decision can be appealed until 18 August. The judge of the magistrates' court, after briefly announcing his decision, handed out the text with the reason to the representatives of both parties.

Christophe Petit Tesson / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Brazilian striker Neymar bought himself from Barcelona for 222 million euros and moved to the French PSG. The deal was paid by the owner of the PSG - the Qatari State Investment Fund. On August 4, Neymar held the first press conference as a PSG player.

Marie C Fields / Shutterstock.com Journalist of the FiveThirtyeight publication Walt Hike spent a month on material cookies with predictions. He was interested to know how unique the inscriptions on pieces of paper invested in cookies are, what they most often write on them and how good the “happy numbers” written on the same pieces of paper are. "Medusa" says that Hike managed to find out. The company that sells in bulk cookies with predictions supplies them in boxes of 350 pieces.

On August 4, the European Union imposed sanctions in connection with the supply of Siemens turbines to Crimea against the Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Andrey Cherezov, the head of the department of the Ministry of Energy Yevgeny Grabchak and the general director of Technopromexport Sergey Topor-Gilka. The sanctions list also included the subsidiary of Rostec, Technopromexport, and the company Interavtomatika, in which participated Siemens .

Conor McGregor's sparring partner Paul Malignaggi stopped working with the wrestler after he posted photos from training on Twitter. Two photos show Malignaggi first standing in front of McGregor and then falling into the ring. The tweet was published three weeks before McGregor's fight with boxer Floyd Mayweather, which will be held under the rules of boxing. According to the sparring partner, in fact, everything was not like that, and he asks McGregor to post a video of the training.