German startup Volocopter announced that it has received 25 million euros in investment to develop an electric flying taxi. Among the companies that provided the necessary financial support for the project was the automobile concern Daimler. According to Reuters , Daimler has joined a consortium of investors, which included, among others, technology investor Lukasz Gaudski from the supervisory board of the German food delivery service Delivery Hero.

The new Moscow handball club, which was accepted into the Russian men's Super League on June 28, will play under the Spartak (Moscow) brand, a source familiar with the situation told the R-Sport agency. Spartak took the place of Dynamo Chelyabinsk, which left the elite division.

In Germany, medical experts ruled that the 96-year-old Oscar Grening, who served as an accountant in Auschwitz during the Second World War and found guilty of murdering 300 thousand people, despite health problems, is ready to serve in prison, Reuters reports. Grening was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015. However, he still has not begun to serve his sentence due to numerous appeals, which were sent to the Supreme Court to defend Grening.

Berlin does not accept the "exorimate sanctions contrary to international law." “Therefore, we urge to closely coordinate the sanctions policy with the EU, as provided for by law,” TASS said to the German Foreign Ministry. Washington should coordinate the application of sanctions against Russia with the European Union. "It is important that in the future the United States and the European Union coordinate the sanctions policy against Russia," the FERG Foreign Ministry said.

The head of the US State Department Rex Tillerson said that American President Donald Trump was dissatisfied with the new anti -Russian sanctions , but despite this, he will most likely sign a document on the entry of sanctions. "The president and I made it clear that we do not believe that new sanctions against Russia will help our efforts. However, the decision on sanctions was made by a majority vote, and I think the president will support him," Tillerson said, Reuters said.

In the village of Roshchino, the Sosnovsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, local residents discovered an impromptu dump of a large number of official papers, including the award documents of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, Znak.com reports. Also, among partially torn and damaged papers, documents on the inheritance of property, free allocation of land, including the construction of the temple, and financial estimates for millions of rubles were found.

The Spartak hockey club proposed to the famous TV presenter Andrei Malakhov, who, according to the media, leaves the first channel, become the host of the home matches of the Moscow team. Earlier, information appeared in the media and social networks that the host of the program "Let them speak" Andrei Malakhov parted with the first channel and moves to the VGTRK.

In the Trinity and Novomoskovsky Administrative District of Moscow (Tinao), the police finds out the circumstances of a mass fight, in which migrant workers from Transcaucasia and Central Asia took part. During the conflict, a tool was used to carry out engineering work.

The Government of South Korea intends to offer an increase in the nominal rate of income tax of companies whose annual taxable income exceeds 200 billion South Korean won ($ 178 million), to 25% from 22%. The income tax for citizens with an income of more than 300 million per year is supposed to increase to 40% from 38%, with an income of more than 500 million won - to 42% from 40%, Interfax reports with reference to the message of the Ministry of Finance of the country.

On August 2, a “diesel summit” opened in Berlin, where representatives of the German government and leading automobile companies are trying to find ways out of a series of scandals related to the manipulation of emissions of harmful substances in diesel cars, in which a number of manufacturers were convicted.

In Irkutsk, an ambulance, in a hurry to hospitalize a child who suffered in a car accident, shot down a woman at a pedestrian crossing. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Irkutsk region, on the morning of August 2, four cars collided on the R-258 Baikal highway, as a result of which five people received various injuries, including a seven-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy.

The first full trailer for the series "Reason Hunter" directed by David Fincher appeared on the Web. The video is published on the Netflix service channel on YouTube . The gloomy and atmospheric trailer resembles the director’s past ribbons, talking about serial killers, KinoPoisk notes. In March, on the Netflix channel, the teaser of the series was already published. The official trailer is twice as long. The series "Hunter for reason" was shot from the book "Hunters for the mind.

For seven months of 2017, residents of the Earth have exhausted the annual supply of renewable resources of the planet and the rest of the year, starting on August 2, will live “in debt”, absorbing resources - fresh water, clean air, plant and animal world - intended for future generations. This is reported by researchers of the International Scientific Center Global Footprint Network and the World Nature Fund (WWF). They emphasize that this year humanity spent resources faster than before.

The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov attracted the attention of journalists, spinning on the eve of his brutality. The head of state appeared on exercises near Ashgabat in camouflage and demonstrated his skills in shooting and throwing a knife. After this, the Turkmen leader began to be compared with the heroes of cult films, the main roles in which were performed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service (GUFSIN) in the Kemerovo region became a defendant in a criminal case on receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, the regional Investigative Committee reports. According to information on the GUFSIN website , this department is headed by 48-year-old Konstantin Antonkin.