On the Rambla pedestrian street in the center of Barcelona, ​​the minibus crashed into a crowd of people, La Vanguardia writes. According to the Catalan police, the incident occurred at 17:00 (18:00 Moscow time). In addition, it is reported about shooting in the Barcelona Boker market and an armed attack on a restaurant. The Spanish Ser Radio , quoting sources in the police, speaks of 13 dead. According to official figures, the death of one person is confirmed, 32 were injured.

Danil Chaban, who previously headed the national team in Skeleton, became the new head coach of the Russian national team in Bobslei and Skeleton. According to the press service of the Russian Bobsley Federation , its candidacy was approved after coordination with the Ministry of Sports, since the manager and the manager were arranged by both the federation and the ministry.

“I’m not ready to agree with the former minister, and now accused of bribery, Alexei Ulyukaev, that his trial should “in a historical sense benefit the Russian people.” But the fact that this trial will inevitably become an important milestone in the modern history of Russia is certain ", writes the editor-in-chief of the Daily Journal . “The historical milestone in this whole story is that a prominent Putin dignitary did not disdain the role of a vulgar decoy.

The Russian Internet search engine Yandex will launch an affiliate program this fall, within which the content of Yandex partner sites will be available directly in search results. The Izvestia newspaper was informed about this by the Yandex press service. As the company explained, links to such sites in search results will be marked with an icon in the form of a rocket. When you click on the link, the information will be shown in a separate window of the search engine itself.

The night on Tuesday, August 15, became the most bloody from the beginning of the campaign to combat drugs in the Philippines - 32 alleged drug trafficks were killed. Over the past day, 25 deaths have been registered, reports Reuters. President Rodrigo Duterte calls not to stop there. According to the government, from the moment Duterta took office in July last year, more than 3,000 alleged drug addicts and drug dealers were killed in the Philippines.

The Government of the Russian Federation will additionally allocate four billion rubles for the purchase of antivirus drugs for HIV-infected. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on August 17, RBC reports. “This will close the need for such drugs this year,” the prime minister emphasized. True, money will only go to those patients who are already undergoing therapy so as not to interrupt it.

The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smartphones of the American corporation in the second quarter of 2017 continued to lead the list of best-selling smartphones in the world, RIA Novosti reports, citing data from Strategy Analytics. According to analysts' calculations, a total of 360.4 million smartphones were sold worldwide from April to June. 4.7% (16.9 million) of all sales were accounted for by the iPhone 7 smartphone.

The Australian Senator, the leader of the Ultra Party "One Nation" Polina Hanson on Thursday, August 17, appeared at the workplace in Burke. The politician decided to put on a female outfit hiding the whole body as part of a campaign to ban such clothes for Muslim women. The act aroused criticism from the government and Muslims. For about 20 minutes, Hanson spent in her place in the Senate, covered with a burka, reports Reuters.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, as part of a weekly briefing with journalists, joined the correspondence polemic with the director of the CIA Michael Pompeo, who repeatedly accused the Kremlin of many years of attempts to undermine democracy in the United States. In response to this, Zakharova reminded Washington about $ 500 million, which were brought to Moscow on the eve of the 1996 presidential election, TASS reports.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications published on the portal of draft regulations regulation.gov.ru a new version of the bill on regulation of the Runet, which is a set of amendments to the law on communications and proposes to limit foreign ownership of so-called traffic exchange points, writes the Vedomosti newspaper.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced evidence of the supply of West countries by the Him weapons to militants to Syria. This was the official representative of the department Maria Zakharova on the air of the Vesti FM radio station. RBC recalls that earlier the Foreign Ministry of Syria announced that chemical ammunition made in the USA had been found in the capital of Damascus.

Residents of Orenburg turned to the regional reception of Russian President Vladimir Putin with a complaint about the work of the local perinatal center on Gagarin Avenue. In the appeal, parents spoke about three cases of the death of newborns and another seven incidents, as a result of which children received injuries or infections. Local officials have already reacted to the flaring scandal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted Russian citizenship to a two -time world champion and the bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics in cycling on the track Australian Shein Perkins. "To accept the Citizenship of the Russian Federation of Perkins Shane Alan, born on December 30, 1986 in Australia," the head of state says, which is published on the official portal of legal information.

The former head of the Rosneft Security Service Oleg Feoktistov was unable to return to work in the Federal Security Service (FSB) and is currently listed in reserve. Back in April of this year, the Russian media connected Feoktistov’s departure from Rosneft with Schumikha, who rose around his name after the loud arrest of the ex-head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev.

Investigators opened a criminal case on the negligence of Perm doctors who left a cotton turunda in the child’s head during the operation, the website of the RF IC reported on August 17. According to the investigation, in July 2016 in the Perm Regional Children's Clinical Hospital a boy from the village of Yurla (Perm Territory) due to a serious illness, a trepanation of the skull was carried out.