The Chinese currency regulator announced a decrease in the yuan course by a maximum value in two decades, Bloomberg said. Daily the installed reference rate has been reduced by a record 1.9%, causing the most sharp collapse of the yuan since January 1994 The People’s Bank of China promised that the devaluation would be one -time and emphasized that it would help Yuan’s movement in the direction of greater market freedom.

In the city of Latakia, the nephew of President of Syria Bashar Assad Suleiman Hilyal Assad, who is accused of murder, was arrested, Sana reports. According to investigators, a relative of the head of state shot the military officer Hassan al-Sheikh during a road conflict. The crime was committed on August 6 in the center of Latakia at the peak hour. Presumably, the president’s nephew was indignant at the fact that the soldier refused to miss his car ahead.

“The fact is that the economy has its own laws of development: if there is demand, then sooner or later supply appears. If something ceases to be in demand, then the one who produced it goes bankrupt. But there was no demand in Russia for a national rating agency, and therefore none of the market participants had the idea of ​​​​creating one and making money from it.

Leonardo DiCaprio will again work with director Martin Scorsese and play the main role in the film "The Devil in the White City", Deadline Hollywood reports with reference to his own sources. The actor and director will join their efforts two years after the completion of the previous project - the black comedy "Wolf with Wall Street".

The Federation of the Jewish communities of Russia (Feor) intends to develop a project related to annual Jewish ethnographic expeditions. “This year we tried to bring the Torah scrolls to those cities and communities for the first time, where we had not had the opportunity to listen to their reading before. I think that next year we will try to convey to people other important commandments and good deeds.

The captain of the Catalan “Barcelona” Andres Iniesta, on the eve of the match for the UEFA Super Cup against Seville, admitted that his team would not be easy to win with the opponent, separately noting the strength of the mentor of the Andalusians, the former “trainer of the Moscow“ Spartak ”Unai Emery. “When you win the three main trophies, you begin to think what else to win,” Sport -Express quotes the Iniesta. “We understand that it will not be easy.

On Tuesday, activists of the Parnas party held a series of single pickets near the building of the Kostroma Regional Court, where a meeting was held to appeal the arrest of the head of the local election headquarters of the party Andrei Pivovarov. The defense of the opposition asked to change the preventive measure for her client. Participants in the action demanded the immediate release of the detainee. This was announced by the leader of the youth department of the organization Mikhail Konev.

The Saratov Express Volga Bank, which is part of the Life group, limited the issuance of cash and set the limit of 15 thousand rubles to receive cash at the bank's box office and at ATMs, Interfax reports. The agency’s correspondent reports from Saratov that it is impossible to withdraw more than 15 thousand rubles at ATMs, the bank's cash desks also do not give out more this amount in one hand. In the office of Express Volga, a queue was formed in the city center.

Last month it became known that another reform is coming to the Russian housing market: developers will be prohibited from selling unfinished apartments to people. In this way, the authorities hope to solve the problem of defrauded shareholders. It is planned to abandon shared construction almost completely from 2020.

In the Church of the Holy Trinity in Khokhlovsky Lane, the first children's liturgy for the families of wards of the children's hospice was committed the day before. The Liturgy was shorter than usual, and the parents of the children got the opportunity to confess and take communion, the Blagovers-Info reports with reference to the information of the Mercy.Ru portal.

Japanese scientists from the National Institute of Informatics (NII) managed to develop special glasses, due to which the camera lens cannot automatically focus on a person’s face. A decision has already been made on mass production of glasses, according to the institute’s website.

Director Sergei Ursulyak completed the shooting of a new series based on the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov "Quiet Don". Two episodes were presented at the window "Window to Europe" in Vyborg, and the premiere on the Rossiya TV channel will be held in the fall of this year. “The film has already been shot and mounted, but not yet voiced. The picture consists of 14 episodes and will be released on the Russia channel in the fall. In any case, I pass the series in the fall.

Moscow authorities completely switched to import substitution during the construction of social houses. About this M24.ru was told by the deputy head of the construction department, Viktor Astrov. He noted that in 2015, 64 such houses will be built in 2015. "The elevators are made in Shcherbinka and Karacharovo, and when Russian factories are loaded, we buy in Belarus.

As you know, shortly after the release of the iPhone 6 Plus, it turned out that its case can be bent with his bare hands. The source of information was a scandalous video , the author of which was Lewis Hilsentheger from Unbox Therapy. This time, Hilsenteger studied the rear panel of the alleged iPhone 6s and made some interesting conclusions, writes Yablyk.com .

The Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Manturov in the near future may be headed by the board of directors of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK), replacing Sergey Frank in this position of the Commerce Comflot, the newspaper Kommersant .