Russian universities extended the summer holidays for students from West Africa, in which cases of Ebola fever were recorded, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the deputy head of the Ministry of Education and Science of Veniamin Kaganov. "For students from these countries who should study with us, the holidays are extended, so they will come later. I hope that by that time the main problems will come to naught. So far, the holidays are extended for two months," Kaganov said.

The Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hoshu set the next world record at the stage of the World Cup on a short water in Dubai. She won qualifications in a swim of 100 meters with a complex. This is the fifth world record of the athlete in a week. Hoshu overcame the distance in 56.86 seconds and became the first woman in the world to emerge at this distance of 57 seconds.

Manchester United reached an agreement with Monaco on the transition of the striker of Colombia in the football team of Radamel Falcao. It is expected that the forward will be rented for one season. According to The Telegraph , the clubs agreed on the deal early on Monday morning and the Colombian flew to Manchester for a medical examination. Meanwhile, according to the Spanish publication, AS , the 28-year-old Falkao will go to the Mankunians camp on an ongoing basis for 65 million euros.

The two-story childhood house of Adolf Hitler in the city of Brownow-on-Inna, whose fate was the subject of great disputes for several years, seems to have finally received a certain view of the future. The plan to turn the "Bad House" into a historical museum called "House of responsibility" approved by the authorities of Braunau, reports The Local .

The consequences of the possible disconnection of Russia from the SWIFT system, which is lobbying for the UK , may be the most serious: if this threat is realized, then all foreign currency payments between banks in Russia and abroad will be frozen. The SWIFT system, explains RBC , unites more than 10 thousand banking and financial organizations in 210 countries of the world and provides the transfer of 1.8 billion messages per year.

In Russia, criteria have been developed for classifying lands as particularly valuable agricultural lands. The draft corresponding resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation is posted on the unified information disclosure portal. It is assumed that the most valuable agricultural lands will be subject to special protection. Their seizure for other purposes is unacceptable, Interfax reports.

The State Administration of Industry and Commerce of China (SAIC) said that Microsoft must provide regulators with answers to questions related to the investigation of its activities within 20 days, starting September 1, reports Reuters . The statement does not say what will happen otherwise. The questions relate to software compatibility and configuration of Microsoft Windows and Office, SAIC said in a statement posted on the regulator’s official website.

Arkady Babchenko “I think we are now witnessing the emergence of the most terrible war for Russia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Not in terms of the number of deaths, but in the sense of what is happening now with society. Not a single nation in any war has ever thought of the idea that you can renounce the names of your fallen husbands for money. That you can, in exchange for compensation or a card, remove your husband’s name from his grave.

About 500 out of 1,200 Christian families who lived here had returned to the village of Alcosh in the north of Iraq. In connection with the approaching the village of Islamic State, Christians were forced to flee their native places some time ago. The return home became possible after the Kurdish armed groups of Peshmerga with the help of the Christian militia stopped the advance of the Islamists on the Alcosh, the Blagovet-Info agency, citing Kipa-Apic .

Military operations in Iraq, including air raids and observation flights, since mid -June cost the United States about $ 560 million, reports The Christian Science Monitor . Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said that the average daily cost of military operations in Iraq is $ 7.5 million. According to Kirby, back in early June, the costs were much less, but they grew sharply after American troops began to apply air strikes in the north of the country last month.

“Among all the ambitious projects of Mikheil Saakashvili, Anaklia probably ranks first. After all, we are no longer talking about a couple of elaborate buildings or renovation of historical heritage, but about a new city, from scratch. Over the course of several years, on the completely empty coast of Georgia, the outlines of a resort town appeared, which died without really being born. Perhaps it would have turned out to be a garden city, and there would have been a flood of tourists.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad took the oath of a new composition of the government of the republic, led by Vail Rador al-Khalki. The head of state set the ministers the task of "winning the trust of citizens", ITAR-TASS reports citing Syrian television.

“And again, sanctions against Russia are on the agenda. In any case, they are already being threatened, they are going to be discussed, etc. This is not just any package (first, second, third...). This is a further deepening and expansion of sanctions from the third, so-called sectoral package of sanctions. It would seem that the motives for the new possible sanctions are quite clear. Only the situation is somewhat different.

This week, the Ministry of Economy will make an integrated plan for the development of environmentally friendly transport in Russia to the government, Vedomosti reports with reference to representatives of the ministry. It is expected that the document will be adopted in late September - early October, the proposed measures should stimulate the markets of electric vehicles and hybrids. How exactly - has not yet been decided.

From the draft government decree “On the implementation of budget investments in the design and construction of a bridge transition through the Kerch Strait”, posted on the government’s website, the Kerch bridge will cost 228.3 billion rubles. This is almost 19 billion rubles less than the amount named earlier. The main source of funds in the project named the federal target program (FCP) for the development of Crimea, and Gennady Timchenko, the general contractor, can be the general contractor.