Sales of cars and light commercial vehicles in July 2015 fell by 27.5 percent to 131.087 thousand cars, TASS reports with reference to the message of the European Business Association (AEB). According to analysts, in January-July the fall amounted to 35.3 percent to the mark of 913.181 thousand cars. "After the total loss of 36% of the volume in the first half of the year, the result of July with minus 27.5% looks almost like good news.

On the coast of San Diego, a funny case took place the other day, captured on the video and caused controversy on the Internet. In it, the fisherman caught or, more precisely, almost caught a drone flying nearby. The drone belonged to a certain tais Ledbetter, who was shooting a pier on the California coast of the Pacific Ocean. At some point, the drone flew too close to the group of fishermen who enthusiastically engaged in their favorite business.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) develop a robot copying the movement and reflexes of a person. A robot named Hermes, in particular, is taught to carefully pour the fluid from a bottle into a glass, without spilling by, maintain an balance when exposed to external forces, use tools, punch walls, as if a person did, reports CNews .

The four Jesuits, who were in August 1945 in the immediate vicinity of the epicenter of the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima, not only did not suffer from the shock wave, but were not exposed to radiation. This case, inexplicable from the point of view of science, again attracted the attention of the media these days, when the 70 years have turned 70 since the first atomic bombing in the history of the atomic bombing.

LLC Kremlin Media offers Yutww Holding to sell the Muzv cable music television channel along with all its debts. The amount of the transaction may amount to about $ 20 million (1.3 billion rubles), Vedomosti write with reference to their own sources.

The actor Bil Murray, who played Dr. Peter Vankman in the first two parts of the fantastic comedy "Ghostbells", agreed to participate in the third part of the film, which director Paul Feig would take off with the female quartet in the main roles.

OPEC countries are negotiating about the possibility of an emergency meeting in the context of a sharp drop in prices, due to excess supplies of raw materials to the market. This was stated by the Minister of Energy of Algeria Salah Habri Agency Bloomberg . The next meeting of the OPEC in Vienna is scheduled for December 4 of this year, however, according to Habri, an extraordinary meeting can be convened until this time.

“The Supreme Court is beginning to consider a seemingly boring case - a complaint by human rights activists against the order of the Ministry of Education and Science, according to which, since 2014, Russian schools have stopped accepting children who do not have registration at their place of residence. It's a complicated story, I'll tell you. As you know, a migrant has two documents. One is a residence permit, it can be called by different names, and the other is registration.

Extended sanctions against citizens and companies in Russia and Ukraine, about which the United States announced on July 30, enter into force on Monday, August 10.

Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation refuted the information that appeared in the media about the undermining of two teenagers on a mine of the Great Patriotic War. The incident in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region took place, but not a mine, but a home -made explosive device, emphasized in the department. "Teenagers with various injuries were hospitalized in the hospital.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) informed about the inclusion of Sergei Balakhnin in the coaching staff of the Russian national football team as a liberated coach. This was reported on the official website of the organization . “I received the proposal to enter the coaching staff of the Russian national team from Leonid Viktorovich Slutsky,” said 55 -year -old Balakhnin to the official website of the RFU. “I didn’t think for a long time, because it was a very honorable and responsible work.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Poland reacted to the statement of the Minister of Agriculture of the country Marek Savitsky, who last Friday noted that the inhabitants of the Russian Federation need the sanctions products that are liquidated throughout the country and compared what was happening to the Hunger of the 1930s in Ukraine. "It can be assumed that such a public action of Mr.

26-year-old Japanese engineer Kuniako Saito from Cocoa Motors I developed a portable conveyor the size of a tablet computer and a weight with a laptop. Saito says this is the first “car in a bag” in the world. Although, in appearance, a device called Walkcar, of course, is more like a skateboard. The elegant invention is made of aluminum and weighs from two to three kilograms - depending on whether the street or indoor is a version, writes Reuters .

The primary hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, the Metropolitan of the East-American and New York Illarion, called on the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin to exclude the name of Peter Voikov, one of the organizers of the murder of the family of Nicholas II, from the toponymy of the city. “We know about your balanced and constructive position on this serious and long -long praying issue.

The dying Spanish village, located in the province of Castelon, turned into an open -air gallery dedicated to the street art of graffiti, reports The Local . In the village of Fanzar there are only 300 inhabitants. In July, a street art festival was held here, during which the walls of dozens of houses were decorated with multi -colored drawings. Famous street artists spent four days in the village in order to create magnificent samples of modern painting.