Four tourists on Mount Ak-Kem in Altai sent out a distress signal, the Siberian regional center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. The tourists, four residents of Kemerovo, reported via satellite phone that the weather had suddenly deteriorated at their campsite, and the wind had blown away their tent with their belongings and equipment. They reported that they were freezing and could not get down the mountain themselves.

Five journalists who worked on the moloko plus magazine reported attempts to hack their Facebook and email accounts. This was reported to Mediazone by the founder of the project, Pavel Nikulin. Two journalists received notifications about Facebook password resets, three more about attempts to enter their email; at the same time, IP addresses from the USA and Brazil were used , Mediazona specifies.

Update . The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that administrative protocols on petty hooliganism were drawn up against the detainees. The maximum fine under this article is one thousand rubles. The police of St. Petersburg detained two men who climbed onto the Bronze Horseman and, according to an eyewitness, tried to light a barbecue on the monument. On August 6, local resident Alexandra Bentzman wrote about the incident on VKontakte.

On August 10, Nicki Minaj released her new album Queen. One of his tracks - "Majesty" - the singer performed with the British singer Labrinth and Eminem. One Genius reader calculated that Eminem read 123 syllables in 12 seconds on "Majesty", thus breaking his own reading speed record set in 2013's "Rap God". Genius confirmed these calculations. The publication clarifies that in "Majesty" Eminem spoke 10.3 syllables per second, in "Rap God" - 9.6.

Steve Gribben / Johns Hopkins APL / NASA On August 12, the NASA space agency launched the Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle into space, which should deliver the Parker probe to the sun. The device the size of a small car was named after the astrophysicist Yujin Parker, who in the 1950s was one of the first in the world to describe a sunny wind-a stream of charged particles constantly emitted by the sun; On Earth, such natural phenomena as magnetic storms and polar radiance are associated with it.

What can you learn about Trump from the book of his former assistant Michael Reynolds / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Former US Assistant Donald Trump and ex-director of communications in public relations Omaros Manigolt Newman releases the book “Unhinded: An Insider Account of the Trump White House”. Trump "). In her, she accuses Trump of racism, sexism and mizoginia .

The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan signed a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Interfax reports. According to the document, each country will establish the boundaries of its territorial waters in the Caspian Sea with a width of no more than 15 nautical miles. The main area of ​​the water surface of the sea will remain in common use, the Caspian states will divide the bottom and subsoil among themselves.

Many people are afraid to write in English. Even those who speak quite well and read calmly sometimes fall into a stupor if they need to write a letter. In fact, everything is not so scary if you know some rules and practice. Let's first agree on what we consider bad writing. This is a text from which it is unclear what you wanted to say. If the letter is impolite, this, of course, is also not good.

A resident of Barnaul Maria Motuznaya, accused of extremism due to her pictures on VKontakte, posted on Twitter a photo of pages from her criminal case. They can see what VKontakte's motive data transmitted to the investigators. Representatives of VKontakte told TJournal that the social network by law is obliged to provide information on official requests of law enforcement agencies. Photo in the announcement: Petr Kovalev / Interpress / TASS / Scanpix / Leta

Vidiadhar Naipaul, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died in London at the age of 85, the BBC reports, citing the writer's relatives. Vidiadhar Naipol is the author of over 30 books. He received the Nobel Prize in 2001 for "bringing together insightful storytelling and uncompromising honesty in works that make us think about facts that are not usually discussed." One of Naipaul's most famous works was the novel In Limbo, for which the writer won the Booker Prize in 1971.

In October 2017, the publishing person of the video game Bethesda SoftWorks introduced Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus-a new part of a series of shooters about the fight against Nazis containing alternative history elements. In Wolfenstein II, events unfold in the alternative 1961. By that time, the Third Reich captured the whole world.

Congressman Tom Garrett told CNN that he was told in a meeting with the FBI director that last year's Charlottesville riots were linked to Russian interference. Garrett said he attended a closed-door meeting about the events in Charlottesville two months ago that included FBI Director Christopher Wray. "I asked if Russian interference was involved in sparking what led to Charlottesville. I was told yes," Garrett said, adding that the information was not classified. Update .

NASA announced the launch of the Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker solar probe. The rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Launch of Delta IV Heavy with the Parker probe The Parker probe is to explore the solar wind and the Sun's atmosphere. According to NASA's plan, during the eight-year mission, the probe will approach the Sun at a record distance of six million kilometers, the first of the devices created on Earth to enter the solar atmosphere.

In honor of Russian Air Force Day, the Ministry of Defense published copies of archival documents concerning Soviet military aviation during World War II. Among the published documents is a copy of a handwritten order for a bombing raid on Berlin . The order was written on the night of August 9, 1941, under the dictation of Joseph Stalin and contains his signature.

Ten people have been taken to hospital after a shooting in Manchester, local police said. Most of the victims received non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting took place on the night of August 12 in the Manchester area of ​​Moss Side, a few hours before the incident the Caribbean Carnival ended there. Police are searching for the shooter.