Seven corporations of the Russian military -industrial complex were included in the rating of the largest defense companies in the world of the American publication Defense News, compiled on the basis of data on the volume of income from the sale of military products and relevant services. The rating of 100 leading defense enterprises has been compiled by Defense News since 2000 and is one of the most authoritative in the world.

In Nepal, a man admitted to the ritual murder of a 10-year-old child at the instigation of a local sorcerer who advised such a radical way to recover his own child of the killer, writes CNN . The body of 10-year-old Jivan Kohara was discovered on July 24 on the outskirts of the village of Kudia in southwestern Nepal. The boy disappeared three days earlier. Kodai Harizhan admitted to the murder of the child, who was helped by relatives.

At the International Automobile Industry Exhibition in Hainan, a 27-year-old Chinese presented a futuristic supercar of his own development, reports Jcnews.ru . Chen Jinksi always dreamed of working on car design, he even studied this subject in college, but life made its own adjustments. Parents insisted that he work in a family factory, which he would ever inherit. Chen was forced to abandon the college, but retained his hobby as a hobby.

More than a thousand representatives of the scientific and technical industry, including the cosmologist Steven Hawking, the head of Tesla Elon Musk and one of the founders of Apple, Steve Wozniak, signed an open letter with an appeal to prevent the arms race based on artificial intelligence. According to the press, the collective letter will be submitted on Tuesday at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires.

The series nominated for the 67th Emmy Award will be shown in the gallery located in the Moscow-City Business Center of the Empire complex from July 28 to August 28, TASS reports with reference to the organizers of the series of a serial program.

The Investigative Committee for the Kostroma Region has already opened a criminal case on the grounds of crimes under Part 3 of Art. 272 of the Criminal Code (illegal access to computer information) and part 1 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of authority), after the head of the Party of Folk Freedom (Parnassus) Andrei Pivovarov was detained on the eve, while trying to buy personal data of the city’s inhabitants from a police officer.

The Nizhny Tagil court for the second time in six months sentenced the creator of the Children-404 community Elena Klimova for a fine of 50 thousand rubles. The reason remained the same - supposedly the project spreads the "propaganda of non -traditional sexual relations among minors." As Klimova said on her blog , the court decision will be appealed.

The owners of the revived German brand Borgward, which produced the car from 1929 to 1961, revealed details about their first modern car, reports Livecars.ru . The developers published the first teaser of the novelty and said that it would be driven by a hybrid power plant developed in cooperation with the Chinese company Foton. The hybrid batteries can be recharged from the household power supply.

In San Francisco, a special hydrophobic coating was applied for a dozen walls to fight the "pissing boys." Any liquid falling on the Ultra-Ever Dry wall with paint is bounced back to its source. Local authorities in this way want to wean the tipsy and simply non -helping citizens to urinate on the walls, Onliner reports. Public urination is a long problem in San Francisco.

The competition of young performers of popular music "New Wave" will not be held in the Olympic Park, but in the northern mall of the seaport of Sochi, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the city administration. "This became known on the eve during the first meeting of the organizing committee of the international competition of young performers of popular music.

A quarter of the inhabitants of Russia (26%) believe that Russian troops are operating in Ukraine, and the Levada Center survey, conducted by order of Gazeta.ru , indicate in Ukraine. At the same time, approximately half (52%) of respondents believes in the official version of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation that there are no Russian soldiers in the Donbass.

In November last year, a world record was broken for the speed speed from 0 to 100 km/h for electric vehicles set on the racing "student". Then the machine, built by students of the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich and the University of Arts and Applied Sciences of Lucerne, accelerated to "hundreds" in 1.785 seconds. A little more than six months passed, and another student team from Germany managed to surpass this achievement.

Ukraine is forced to resume the purchase of electricity in the Russian Federation, writes the newspaper Kommersant . The reason is that, due to the shelling of the carrier TPP in the Donbass and summer repairs from the energy system, 2.5 GW of power fell from the energy system. Kyiv, however, did not take energy under the contract with Inter RAO and receives about 800 MW in the framework of emergency assistance on daily applications.

In Russia, the next site was made from the register forbidden, this time for propaganda of corruption. The reason for blocking was a text called "The course of a young bribe taker", which tells how to "correctly" give bribes to officials. The block was authorized by the court, the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office says.

“I would like to note that in Novosibirsk the attempt to remove the Democratic Coalition has so far been a success for the authorities literally in a photo finish, with three hundred signatures and absolutely hellish violations, repeatedly recorded live. All this, of course, indicates that the authorities do not have 80% support, they know this and are terribly nervous. This means we need to be bolder. We will continue to put pressure on them with all available opportunities.