The authorities of the Australian state of Queensland announced a reward of 100 thousand Australian dollars (about 5 million rubles) for information that will help arrest attackers who lay sewing needles in strawberries, Australian ABC television channel reports. The first reports of sewing needles in berries supplied from Queensland farms to the country's supermarkets appeared on social networks a week ago.

The president of the Italian football club Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis, announced his readiness to acquire the Croatian Hajduk, reports Sportske Novosti . The 69-year-old film producer noted that, if possible, he would certainly try to buy the team. “Give me a chance and I will buy Hajduk,” De Laurentiis said. Hajduk is a 15-time winner of the national championship and cup, and a five-time winner of the Croatian Super Cup. Last season the team took third place in the national championship.

Multiple world boxing champion in five weight categories, Floyd Mayweather Jr. will return to the ring in 2018. The American will hold his second fight with world champion in eight weight categories, Filipino Manny Pacquiao. "I'm coming back to fight Manny Pacquiao this year. Another nine figure check," Floyd Mayweather Jr. wrote on Instagram . The first fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao took place on May 2, 2015. In that fight , Floyd Mayweather Jr. won by unanimous decision .

In the match of the seventh round of the Russian football championship, CSKA away with a score of 3: 0 defeated the Ufa club. As part of the army team, Fedor Chalov (45+3 ') and Timur Zhamaletdinov, who designed a double (59', 63 '), inflicted precise strikes. The metropolitan football players, who will start on September 19th at the group stage in the Champions League, in the first half, due to injuries, lost striker Abel Ernandes and defender Hurdur Magnusson.

A criminal case of fraud has been opened in Dagestan against the former chief physician of the City Clinical Hospital (CCH) N1. As reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, from 2016 to April 2018, the head physician, in collusion with other persons, issued unfounded orders to pay bonuses and incentive payments to himself and some other hospital employees. The amount of payments exceeded 238 million rubles.

The police detained two participants in the perpetual picket on the Manezhnaya Square in Moscow in support of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, a documentary director Gayane Petrosyan and Tatyana Shapiro, convicted for terrorism. This was announced by "OTD-Info" by activist Kirill Kotov. Shapiro confirmed this on her Facebook page. The action took place next to the zero kilometer and the State Historical Museum.

Referee Bob Christianson, who officiated US Open matches for 38 years in a row, threatened to boycott American Serena Williams, who caused a scandal in the decisive match of the US Open tennis championship. "This is the most unpleasant story in 40 years of my career. We demand an apology from Serena to a specific judge and the entire corps as a whole. If we do not get what we want, then a boycott of her next match is likely. We have never had to resort to this, but the judges are scared.

The Russian male team in volleyball set the world championship record, allowing the Tunisian team to score only six points in one of the sets, according to the official website of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). The meeting of the first group stage of the World Cup, held on Friday in Italian Bari, ended with a score of 3: 0 (25:19, 25: 6, 25:19) in favor of Russians. The difference in the account in the second party was the largest in the history of the world championships.

The Moscow Lokomotiv in the home match of the seventh round of the Russian Championship could not replay the metropolitan Dynamo. The meeting at the Stadium "Railways" ended in a draw with a score of 1: 1. The guests were the first to distinguish between the skill of striker Miguel Cardoza (5 '), the hosts of the field recouped even before the break after the blow of the midfielder Anton Miranchuk (32').

The Novosibirsk hockey club "Siberia" dismissed the team's head coach Vladimir Yurzinov Jr., according to the team's official website . The decision was made due to the team’s unsatisfactory results at the start of the KHL season. In six regular season matches, Sibir suffered six defeats without scoring a single point. The name of the club's new head coach has not been announced.

In Riga, a five -thousandth procession was held against the full translation of Latvian schools to study in the state language by 2021, Delfi reports with reference to the LETA agency and the State Police of Latvia. The street procession began after 12 hours at the Dales Theater and at about 14:00 ended with a rally at the monument to Rainis. There were no incidents and detentions. The event was organized by the Latvia Russian Union (RSL) with the Left -Gentric Party.

In Kyiv, the judge of the Svyatoshinsky district court Sergei Dyachuk was beaten, who considers the case of the murder of people on the Maidan in February 2014, the attacked detained. The National Police of Ukraine reports that the attack occurred at about 22:00 near the judge’s house on Smirenko Street. Dyachuk saw that a guard guard had grown a fire to burn garbage on its territory, and made a remark to the man.

Director Yuri Butusov, who left the post of artistic director of the St. Petersburg Lensovet Theater, will become the chief director of the Moscow Theater named after E. B. Vakhtangov. This was announced at the collection of the troupe on the opening of the 98th season, the artistic director of the theater Rimas Tuminas. “I suggested, and Yuri Butusov agreed to come to our theater as the chief director.

The Swiss prosecutor’s office suspects two Russians of making cyber attacks at the World Anti -Doping Agency in Lausanne. This was reported by the NRC Handelsblad and the Swiss edition of Tages-ANzeiger with reference to the prosecutor's office. The case in the Swiss prosecutor’s office for two Russians has been instituted since March 2017. The media clarified that these are two people who were detained in the Netherlands for trying to get data from the Swiss Laboratory of Spitz.

Mercedes team driver Lewis Hamilton won qualifying for the 15th round of the Formula 1 championship, the Singapore Grand Prix, which took place in the dark. The Briton's result was 1 minute 36.015 seconds. "Tough qualifying session, but my lap was like magic. I don't know how it happened, but everything came together. Huge thanks to the whole team who are working hard to win back the minimum fractions of a second. There were no problems on the lap. It was the limit ideal.