Housing prices in Silicon Valley continue to grow rapidly and there are no signs of land return in the near future, experts say. Over the past four months, the average price of a house for one family in the district of Santa Clara - the heart of the Silicon Valley - has transmitted a mark of $ 1 million, reports Prian.ru . “A similar situation was observed in 2000, during the bubble of dotcomes,” said CNBC Rieltor Mary Pop-Hendi.

Police near Moscow revealed the robbery of the famous scientist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Kadyshevsky, committed three days ago . The detainee will be judged by robbery, he faces up to 12 years in prison. According to the victim’s statement, last Friday, August 16, an unknown one penetrated his house, located in Dubna near Moscow, and, threatening with a knife, stole 40 thousand rubles, 3 thousand euros and other currency, recalls Interfax .

“Rostov” in the final match of the fifth round of the Russian football championship on his field defeated the Nizhny Novgorod Volga with a score of 4: 0 and went out in the first place in the Premier League standings . The main character of the meeting at the Olympus-2 stadium in Rostov-on-Don was the Havbek, Jeano Ananidze, who scored the victorious ball and gave two assists, rented from Spartak. All four goals into the gates of Arthur Nigmatullin flew after the break.

If Russia already has a monument to Apple founder Steve Jobs, then America has yet to erect it. A group of enthusiasts wants to raise $50,000 for a statue of the entrepreneur that is planned to be erected in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The police launched a criminal case upon the injury of Jabrail Makhmudov, one of the accused of complicity of the murder of the Novaya Gazeta observer Anna Politkovskaya, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. The case was opened under Article 112 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Intentional causing harm to health health." Makhmudov himself is still in the hospital and is restored after surgery.

On the Sinai Peninsula, the militants killed 24 policemen, three more were injured, reports Newsru Israel with reference to the Palestinian Agency "Maan" . According to sources in Egyptian law enforcement agencies, the militants organized an ambush in which the army unit got during the anti -terrorist operation "Storm in the desert". The terrorists fired at two buses from grenade launchers, which transported Egyptian soldiers in the area of ​​the city of Rafakh.

In the Chinese city of Tincuchen near Hangzhou, the Parisian atmosphere is recreated - buildings in the Romanesque style, fountains, statues and even a copy of the Eiffel Tower were built. Nevertheless, this city is amazingly empty. {pic_1 c} The construction of the city began in 2007. Then a copy of the Eiffel Tower was built 108 meters high. The settlement is able to accommodate 10 thousand inhabitants.

The famous Russian conductor and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev wants to create a national center of art by uniting the Mariinsky Theater, the Academy of Russian Ballet, the St. Petersburg State Conservatory and the Russian Institute of the History of Arts , the Russian Forbes website with reference to the draft letter of Gergiev Putin, who was at the disposal of the magazine.

“Recently I was looking at Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and the guide asked the children present there what the name of the first person on Earth was. And none of the children answered her, not even the schoolchildren. No one answered the next question, what was the name the first woman, created from the rib of the first man. Let me make a reservation right away: the guide spoke quite friendly and in Russian. And what happened is very significant.

Two citizens of Ukraine, including the multiple world and European champion in the swimming of the BRASS, the ex-record holder of the world at a distance of 50 meters Oleg Lisogor, were detained by the Liberia police on charges of kidnapping and long-term retention of the third Ukrainian citizen.

In the new campus of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), built for the APEC-2012 summit in Vladivostok, serious problems have been identified. In anticipation of the beginning of the new academic year, it turned out that in the educational buildings there are not enough energy capacities, and students complain about poor living conditions, Interfax reports with reference to the materials of the working group to eliminate problems at the university.

The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates today, August 19, the great twelve (one of the twelve) holiday of the Transfiguration of the Lord . On this day, after the solemn service in the temples, the rank of consecration of apples and other fruits is performed, so in Rus' this holiday is called the second, or apple saving (the first, honey saved, was celebrated on August 14). The holiday is dedicated to the memory of the gospel narrative about the transformation of Jesus Christ.

San Francisco more and more split into two irreconcilable camps: young and wealthy employees of Silicon Valley enterprises and those who cannot find a place in the high-high industry, feeling superfluous in the city, which, as it seemed, belongs to everything, tells The Los Angeles Times . Every weekday, from dawn until late in the evening, through the streets of San Francisco, luxurious branded buses, picking up thousands of young people.

Near the building of the Kyiv city council, which held a ridiculously short extraordinary meeting on Monday, rallies and clashes occurred. Representatives of the Opposition Parties "Freedom", "Fatherland" and the blow tried to disrupt the meeting, because they believe that Kyiv is the VI convocation has already worked out the five -year term due to law and is illegitimate from June 2.

Previously, unknown frescoes of the pre -Raphaelites were discovered during restoration work in the famous Red House mansion, built by the artist William Morris in 1860 in the suburbs of London, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the National Fund (National Trust), which owns this building. Morris lived in this mansion between 1860 and 1865, and he was regularly visited by the friends of the pre -Raphaelites, with whom he from time to time painted walls, ceilings and furniture.