The British agency Times Higher Education (The) published an annual rating of thousands of the best universities in the world from 77 countries. In the first hundred there was not a single Russian educational institution. Nevertheless, 18 domestic universities are present in the ranking. The best indicator of Moscow University. Lomonosov, who took the 194th line of the rating.

The Jerusalem patriarchs and archbishops of thirteen different churches have sent a letter to Christian leaders around the world calling on them to put pressure on Israel and restore the broken status quo on land ownership.

The Bolshoi Theater intends to release Kirill Serebrennikov’s ballet “Nureyev” until the end of this year, despite the home arrest of the director and previously identified problems with the readiness of the performance, said Gabt Director Vladimir Urin. “I submitted a petition and was one of the first to advocate that Kirill Serebrennikov had the opportunity to work on performances at the Gogol Center and we have a large one.

A New Zealand resident had too much alcohol last weekend and sold his car for 800 New Zealand dollars (about 33 thousand rubles) to get money to continue drinking. However, when he woke up the next morning, he did not remember what had happened, and discovered that his car was no longer parked at the house. Believing that she had been stolen, he went to the Rotorua police station, reports NZ Herald . The police began to investigate the incident in good faith.

Volkswagen Group Rus LLC, which is the official representative of Volkswagen on the Russian market, is recalling 7,670 VW Multivan vehicles sold from 2014 to 2016, Rosstandart reports. The reason for the revocation is indicated as a possible impact on its own branch serpentine belt between belt tensioner and guide roller.

In Tyumen, the DVR of a random car captured a funny way of transporting a car on an auxiliary move, which was immediately dubbed the “gypsy tow truck” on the Internet, reports Tyumen Times . A group of gypsies partially loaded an old VAZ-2108 into the back of a Gazelle truck, holding and pushing the tail of the car, which remained outside. It can be assumed that the car was missing at least one front wheel, so pushing it in the usual way was problematic.

After the next nuclear test of Pyongyan, the naval forces of South Korea conducted large-scale exercises in the Japanese Sea in order to demonstrate "their determination to confront provocations by the DPRK." This was reported by Yonhap . Meanwhile, it became known that North Korea is preparing for a new launch of a ballistic missile. The exercises were aimed at improving the strategy of instant response of the South Korean military to provocations in the sea from the enemy, the Navy said.

The Huardian , BBC , Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Center for Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) investigation of the secret elite of Azerbaijan, used to launder $ 2.9 billion, and reports of expensive gifts to European parliamentarians in the presidential press service Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev was called a provocation of the "world Armenism" with the money of financier George Soros.

At the end of seven months of 2017, sales of new electric vehicles in Russia amounted to 39 units, which is 18% more than a year earlier (33 units), Autostat reports. It is worth noting that in the first five months of this year, the already rapid sales of electric cars in Russia were falling , but for the first half of the year the figures were still equal to last year’s.

The Chinese company Xiaomi introduced the inexpensive Xiaomi Mi A1 smartphone, developed in collaboration with Google as part of the Android One program. As Ferra writes, the new smartphone is housed in a metal case. The diagonal of the Xiaomi Mi A1 IPS display is 5.5 inches and the resolution is 1920*1080 pixels. The device is powered by an eight-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor, has 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal memory, expandable via microSD cards up to 128 GB.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the ridiculous situation in which the United States, having adopted new sanctions against the DPRK and Russia, then offer Moscow to join new restrictive measures against Pyongyang due to its nuclear program. At the same time, he spoke caustically about American officials.

The mayor of Leipzig condemned the reaction of the local police to the rape of a woman running in a city park: law enforcement officers invited representatives of the weaker sex in pairs and look back, Bild reports on September 3. Earlier, the rape of a 50-year-old woman who committed a morning run on September 1 in the popular Rosental Park was reported. A dark-haired man of southern appearance attacked her, he looked 25-35 years old.

In Sakhalin North-Kurilsk, located on the island of Paramushir, the emergency mode was introduced due to the passage of the prison "Sanva" . Local authorities are talking about tens of millions of rubles of damage due to the rampant of the elements. Operational services are trying to return the spreading river to its channel and clean the city from sand and fallen trees and structures. “The cyclone passed, the rains stopped, the wind was a verse. But we have serious problems now.

At the held on September 4 at the Grozny mass rally in support of Muslims of Rohinge in Myanmar, the police officers did not allow people to leave the place of the action until its end, the Caucasian Knot site with reference to eyewitnesses reports. At the same time, the interlocutors of the portal expressed doubts that more than a million people took part in this event in the central square of the capital of the republic in front of the Chechnya Heart mosque.

In the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, in the case of the ex-minister of economic development of Alexei Ulyukaev, the prosecutor, the prosecutor, released the record of his conversation with the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, in which the minister allegedly exhausted the bribe, TASS reports. As the Mediazon publication clarifies, the operative received two audio recordings of the conversation between Sechin and Ulyukaev during the alleged transfer of a bribe.