Champions League winners Real Madrid beat Manchester United in the European Super Cup, which won the Europa League this year. The match ended with the score 2:1. The goals for Real Madrid were scored by Casemiro and Isco. Romelu Lukaku scored the only goal for Manchester United. Real Madrid won the European Super Cup for the second time in a row and the fourth time in their history.

Will Oliver / EPA / Scanpix / Leta on August 8 at the World Athletics Championships in London held a awarding ceremony of winners in running with barriers of 110 meters. Russian athlete Sergey Shubenkov (in the photo on the left), the world and European champion, came to the finish line the second - after the Jamaician Omar Maclaud. The third came Hungarian Balazh Baya.

Pavel Slobodkin, the founder of the Soviet pop ensemble Cheerful Guys, died on August 8. This was reported in the Department of Culture of Moscow. Slobodkin was 72 years old. Pavel Slobodkin in 1966 created the ensemble "Merry Fellows", which became one of the most famous Soviet VIA. In 1974-1976, Alla Pugacheva sang in the group; as part of "Jolly Fellows" she sang the song "Arlekino", which Slobodkin arranged.

US intelligence agencies have found that the DPRK has learned to produce nuclear warheads suitable for equipping intercontinental ballistic missiles, The Washington Post reports, citing intelligence sources. North Korea has between 30 and 60 nuclear warheads, including those suitable for ICBMs, according to a July report by the US Defense Intelligence Agency quoted by the newspaper. The Washington Post notes that the US does not know if these warheads have actually been tested.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, asked Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky to ban the distribution of Alexei Uchitel's film Matilda in Chechnya. This was reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda, which obtained a letter from Kadyrov to Medinsky. The representative of Medinsky, Irina Kaznacheeva, confirmed to RBC that the letter had been received. The letter is dated June 16th.

Anastasia Nemchenkova used to be a reasonably popular YouTube star, but she hasn’t posted anything to her account, TheNemnastia , in more than a year. Earlier this week, however, a new video briefly appeared on her channel promoting Moscow city’s “My Street” beautification project, featuring busty, glistening women doing remodeling work in a montage that recycles visuals from Benny Benassi’s infamous “Satisfaction” music video .

The press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Tver region / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On the evening of August 7, the building of the river station collapsed in Tver - this is the main symbol of the city. The station was built in the mid-1930s. It was actively exploited until the early 1990s: from Kalinin (the Soviet name of Tver) it was possible to get along the Volga to Rzhev and Uglich, large boat traveling along the Volga stopped here.

8 August. The Ukrainian was carried away by sea to the Crimea. And other beach news Good evening! Tuesday turned out to be rich in news about the sea and beaches, but let's start not with them. Main The trial in the case of Alexei Ulyukaev has begun. The former Minister of Economic Development is accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. This is how he looks after nine months of arrest.

The streaming service Netflix will release a new show in 2018 by David Letterman, who retired in 2015 after 33 years of running his own show. The program will include six one-hour episodes, consisting of Letterman's conversation with a guest and short reports. Who will be the guest of the program and whether the releases will be united by some common theme has not yet been reported.

Drivers working through the Uber taxi service have figured out how to deceive the order pricing algorithm. This was told by researchers from the University of Warwick. To cheat the algorithm, drivers simultaneously log out of the application through which they receive orders. The system does what it always does when it notices a shortage of cars when demand is high—raises prices. After waiting for the multiplier, drivers re-enter the application and take orders.

In Simferopol, near the building of the Supreme Court of Crimea, on August 8, 76-year-old activist Server Karametov was detained, who was holding a banner with the words “Putin and Aksyonov, our children are not terrorists! Stop blaming the Crimean Tatars!” According to his lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, a report was drawn up against Karametov for violating the procedure for holding a picket (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and disobeying the police (Article 19.3).

Darren Filkins / Camera Press / Vida Press Psychologist Gene Tuengs for 25 years studied the difference between generations and noticed that modern teenagers are very different from adolescents who grew in the previous decades. Tuengs even came up with the name for him: iPokoil, igen. The Atlantic magazine has published an excerpt from her book, which is coming to the United States soon.

As part of a criminal investigation into the embezzlement of funds for the construction of a wall on the eastern border of Ukraine, six people were detained. This was reported on the website of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). The detainees are officials of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and employees of contractors. As part of the investigation of the case, searches are also being carried out in Kyiv, the Kyiv region, Chernigov and Kharkov.

Murad Sezer / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Quote “Turkey hides an epidemic of a dangerous Koksaki virus at its resorts” - the news with such a headline was published on August 7 REN. Other media picked up this message, and users of social networks began to report on diseases of the Koksaki virus already in Russia. Fact The source of the REN report is two Russian families with sick children, in one of which “personally saw a 30 person”, infected with the virus.

On August 5, the World Dog Surfing Championship was held on Pacifica State Beach in California. Yes, dogs can catch waves too! The first dog surfing competition was held in 2006 in California. Then several dozen surfers and their pets stood on the boards. By 2017, the number of participants has increased markedly. Dogs of various breeds and sizes took part in the championship. All competitors enter the water in life jackets. This is a mandatory condition for the competition.