Tiny apartments have hit the Hong Kong market, priced well above average, but so small in size that they are no larger than a standard parking space. According to the South China Morning Post , the area of ​​such “nano-apartments” in the new TPlus residential complex in the Tung Mun area is only about 11.9 square meters, and the parking space in this complex is 12.5 square meters. m. However, you can rent such a tiny apartment for at least $510 a month - $40 per square meter. meter.

The International Tribunal in the Hague ordered Russia to pay the Netherlands 5.4 million euros and legal costs for the incident with the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise, whose crew arrested in 2013, Reuters reports. The corresponding decision is published on the court website .

A red 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona, which singer Elton John drove for two years, is up for auction in Britain, according to the auction house's website . The auction will take place on July 29th and 30th at the Silverstone race track. Elton John owned this Ferrari from 1973 to 1975, the total mileage of the car is low and is about 130 thousand kilometers. The starting price for the sports car is £525,000 - £575,000. In recent years, the car was owned by a collector.

The leadership of the Spanish football club Barcelona denied information about the imminent transition of the Brazilian striker Neymar to the French PSG. “We are absolutely calm. We want Neymar to stay and be happy in Barcelona. He is a fantastic player, one of the best in the world. We are not even considering proposals for his transfer, no matter what amounts they appear there,” the statement of the press secretary of the Catalan club Josep Vivez quotes.

The United States conducted a new type of weapon in the Persian Gulf - a laser system called Laws (Laser Weapons System). It was installed on the landing ship of USS Ponse. During the tests, the military shot down a drone, reports CNN , whose journalists witnessed the event. The channel claims that we are talking about the "first active laser weapon in the world." The material notes that this is not about an experimental sample, but about a full -fledged weapon, ready for use at any time.

Depeche Mode vocalist Dave Gaan, who has already been discharged on July 17, has already been discharged, BelTA reports with reference to the staff of the 9th city clinical hospital of Minsk. The condition of the singer, according to doctors, is satisfactory. The doctors made the decision on the discharge on the morning of July 18 after the examination of Dave Gaan - he was in good condition, talked with the doctors.

John Hiro Velazquez, nicknamed Priestai, who worked as a personal bodyguard and killer of the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, called on the Prime Minister of Great Britain Teresa May to legalize cocaine to prevent thousands of deaths from drugs, reports The Independent . According to Velazquez, Kosos needs to be sold in pharmacies, and pharmacists must ensure that it is clean. In small doses, pure cocaine is not more dangerous than fatty foods or soda.

The Court of Philadelphia of the state of Pennsylvania sentenced to two accomplices of armed robberies, one of whom turned out to be an employee of the court and a relative of a major politician. The defendants received various terms of conclusion with a difference of four centuries. The 31-year-old Amin Ecridge, the American Femis imposed a punishment in the form of 416 years in prison.

The second criminal case was instituted on July 18 against the former Gogol Center general director and the ex-General producer of the Seventh Studio, Alexei Malobrodsky, the former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio, Nina Maslyaeva and the former general director of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itina. This became known during the meeting of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, where the issue of further suppression of the above persons arrested in another case was resolved.

“Putin protects Ivan the Terrible and Stalin “from excessive demonization” because he subconsciously feels in them “brothers in mind,” or rather, in clinical paranoia,” the sociologist writes on his Facebook page, commenting on Vladimir Putin’s words in defense of Ivan the Terrible, voiced during the President’s visit to the Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant. “In addition, the new “loser” perceives his predecessors as the same as himself, victims of the slander of hated foreigners.

Residents of Russia, despite the increase in the number of poor people , evaluate their personal life and the situation in the country in 2017 better than in 2015-2016, are evidenced by the results of a survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ). The index of assessing the personal life of citizens in June this year exceeds the significance of past years - is 59 points. A year ago, this index was equal to 38 points, and in June 2015 - 46 points.

A few days before the premiere of the Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII sedan, official photos of the eighth-generation premium British car circulated on the Internet. A photo of the brochure with secret images was published by Chinese media. LiveCars describes the declassified Phantom, noting "evolutionary design at its best" with the new Rolls-Royce receiving only mild cosmetic touches.

On Tuesday, in the building of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), a search was held, the arrested leaders of the Federation were charged with corruption, Interfax reports. According to El Pais , the security forces held about 10 arrests, among the accused Angel Maria Williar, who headed the federation, his son Gorka Villar, as well as the vice-president of the Federation, Juan Padron, for 29 years old.

In the Tver District Court of the capital, on July 18, the debt of the parties in the criminal case against a war veteran in Chechnya Stanislav Zimovts , who is accused, is accused of applying violence for the life of a security forces against an unauthorized anti -corruption action "He on Dimon on March 26 in Moscow. The prosecutor asked the court to sentenced the winterbeat to three years in a general regime colony, Mediazona reports.

The head of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, announced the unification with the Lugansk People’s Republic and the formation of a new state - Little Russia. Donetsk became the capital of the new country, they prepared a special role in Kyiv, and all Ukrainians were offered to join the new self -proclaimed state to end the war.