For the first time in history, the Kenya team took first place in the medal standings of the World Athletics Championship, which ended on Sunday in Beijing. On the account of Kenyan athletes, seven gold, six silver and three bronze awards. The second place was taken by the Jamaica team (7-2-3), the third-the USA (6-6-6). The Russian team with four medals is located in the ninth position (2-1-1).

The Tyumen Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) increased control over the prices of products and gasoline, prohibiting representatives of suppliers and retail chains publicly talk about raising prices for these products.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Tuesday will publish the results of the study of biological passports of athletes who were suspected of violating anti -doping rules. About this at a press conference on the end of the World Athletics Championship in Beijing, said IAAF President Lamin Diak. Earlier, IAAF started 63 cases of abnormal data in the biological passports of athletes since 2011, 31 of which are against Russians.

The Ministry of Emergencies on Sunday reported on some successes in the fight against fires in Buryatia. In the republic, "it was possible to suspend the growth rate of fire area": ​​their area increased by 819 hectares per day, while it used to increase by 3000 hectares every day, Interfax reports.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange assures that he was the person who recommended that the former agent of the US National Security Agency Edward Snowden ask for asylum in the Russian Federation, and not in Latin America. He stated this Times Magazine . “Snowden gave preference to Latin America, but my advice was that he should ask for asylum in Russia, despite the negative PR consequences (such a step).

Participants in the final series of the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) - Moscow CSKA and St. Petersburg SKA - do not very confidently begin the new regular championship. Muscovites in the last round were bits in Helsinki by local Jokerite 0: 3, and the Petersburgers lost 1: 3 on their ice on their ice. For the army from the coast of the Neva, this defeat was already the second at the start of the season.

British politicians were outraged by the decision of Spain to allow the Russian submarine "Novorossiysk" to enter for refueling to the seuta port located in the enclave on the northern coast of Morocco, writes The Independent . British parliamentarians and military experts accused the Spanish government of a "obvious provocation" directed against Gibraltar - the overseas territory of Great Britain on the Pyrenee Peninsula, which is disputed by Spain, RIA Novosti points out.

The famous Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo spent about 30 thousand dollars in order to make his own wax figure, an exact copy of the one since 2013 is installed in the Madrid Museum of Wax figures. According to the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday , the statue should take its honorable place in the Spanish villa of the striker of the Madrid Real Madrid in the west of the Spanish capital.

In Malaysia, the situation is rapidly hesitating in connection with unprecedented mass protests that flashed after the accusations of the country's prime minister Najib Razaka in corruption. In the capital of the country, Kuala-Lumpura Hundred-thousandth demonstration gathers the second day. The party in power promises to organize a millionth anti-Maidan from its red-browned supporters, threatens protesting arrests, Reuters reports.

In Thailand, the alleged executor of the explosion in the center of Bangkok was arrested, as a result of which 20 people died and more than 120 were injured. The detention of a 28-year-old foreigner became known on August 29. In his house, bags with materials used to create bombs were found. According to the police, a man is unlikely to be related to an international terrorist, and his actions, presumably, are revenge, reports Bangkok Post .

A large-scale power outage occurred due to a hurricane and rains in the south of Canada and the north-west of the United States-almost a million consumers remained without light. About 500 thousand consumers of electricity were left without light in the Western province of British Colombia due to a thunderstorm, BC HYDRO's energy-grower company said. Reuters reports on large -scale shutdowns in Washington, where about 450 thousand consumers were left without light.

Rescue and endolasis services are searching for three divers who have not surfaced from the bottom in the water area of ​​the Novorossiysk port, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the regional services of the region. The press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia confirmed the fact of the incident.

The Italian gas company ENI announced the discovery of the largest gas deposit in the Mediterranean Sea, calling it "supergiant." The deposit was discovered at sea near the coast of Egypt. The Italian company received the right to develop it in January 2014, having won the tender announced by Cairo, TASS recalls.

In the north of Yemen, as a result of the next airstrike for the coalition forces, led by Saudi Arabia, about 30 civilians were killed: a factory for the production of bottled drinks fell under the blow, Reuters reports with reference to local residents. The enterprise in the northern province of Haja was subjected to bombing. The local resident of Isa Ahmed from the scene of the tragedy on the phone that rescuers had completed the process of extracting bodies from under the fragments.

Actor Mikhail Svetin died on Sunday morning in the intensive care unit of the Gatchina Central District Hospital in the Leningrad Region, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the region’s administration. “Svetin died today at 06:45 in the morning,” said the representative of the administration. People's Artist of the Russian Federation Svetina was hospitalized on August 23, after an emergency operation he was transferred to intensive care .