Manchester United and French national team midfielder Paul Pogba joined the popular Bottle Cap Challenge, under which you need to open a bottle in an unusual way. The world champion accepted the challenge to participate in a popular flash mob from former teammate and now player of the MLS club Los Angeles Galaxy Zlatan Ibrahimovic, known for his knowledge of martial arts. Pogba complicated the trick by opening two bottles at once with a roundhouse kick, reports "Championship" .

The Russian women's basketball team lost to Sweden with a score of 52:57 in the match for 5th-6th places at the European Championship. Thus, the Russian team lost the chance to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The most productive player of the meeting was Maria Vadeeva, who scored 15 points. As part of the Swedish national team, Elin Eldebrink scored the most points with 14 points, TASS reports.

Seven Russians, including a young couple, were detained at the airport of the Mexican resort city of Cancun due to claims of the migration authorities, RIA Novosti was told in the Russian embassy. According to the diplomatic mission, they have been at the airport for about three days, but did not go to the Consulate of the Russian Federation. The detainees are waiting for the return flight.

In Moscow, a participant in a single picket was detained in Molotnaya Square in support of the Khachaturian sisters accused of the murder of his father, as well as several representatives of the male state of the women's community. The pickets are held near the sculptural composition "Children - victims of adult vices" instead of the "march of the sisters", which the Moscow City Hall did not agree .

In Las Vegas, a duel of views and a press conference of the mixed style of Khabib Nurmagomedov and Dustin Poerier took place. The Russian athlete promised to protect the title of champion of the Absolute Fighting Championship (UFC). A fight with an American will be held on September 7 in Abu Dhabi as part of the UFC 242 tournament. “Guys, do you also remember what I did in Las Vegas last year?” Nurmagomedov asked fans and journalists at a press conference, reports CageSidepress.com .

Atletico refused to Barcelona in a postponement of retreating 120 million euros for the midfielder Antoine Griezmann. In addition, the Madrid club accused the "blue-granat" and the French player of the disrespect and violation of the rules of negotiations.

The defender of Spartak Salvatore Bocketti achieved the termination of the contract with the Russian club. According to the Italian journalist Dzhanluki Di Marzio , the 32-year-old player will continue his career in Verona. It is expected that he will sign with the "yellow-blue" two-year agreement. Later, Bocketti's departure was confirmed by the press service of Spartak . Last season, Bocketti took part in 22 matches for Spartak in various tournaments.

Officer GRU Denis Sergeyev (also known as Sergey Fedotov), ​​who is called the curator of the alleged poisoners of the ex-colonel of GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia before the incident in Salisbury was repeatedly in Switzerland, and he was there twice at the same time as “Salisbury tourists” Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov (real names, respectively, Denisa Sergeyev, respectively, Sergey. Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepig).

At least 20 people were injured in a gas explosion in a shopping center in the city of Planteshn in the American state of Florida, the AR agency, citing local police. The state of two victims is evaluated as difficult. The explosion occurred in a pizzeria, which as a result was completely destroyed. Also knocked out windows in a fitness club in the neighborhood. The explosion scattered large pieces of concrete and metal at a distance of 50-100 meters, the fragments destroyed two fire engines.

The funeral of the submariners who died in the Barents Sea at the Serafimovsky cemetery in St. Petersburg took place closed, but many journalists managed to visit farewells, take pictures and hear mourning speeches of high-ranking military.

At the Serafimovsky cemetery of St. Petersburg, submariners who died as a result of a fire on the deep-sea apparatus "Lorsarik" in the Barents Sea were buried. According to RIA Novosti , on Saturday morning, the bodies of the sailors were taken to the ceremony of the civilian requiem and the funeral, accompanied by traffic police. All 14 officers are buried next to the memorial to those who died on the Kursk submarine.

"The political conference of the YR was held. The chairman of the party and government, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, participated. Dmitry Medvedev’s participation in such events takes place in two formats: he either takes an event or sleeps on it. This time D. Medvedev led the event," writes a former politician on his Facebook page. "The event was held in a business and constructive style.

Forwards Kawhi Leonard and Paul George will continue their careers with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As EPSN journalist Adrian Wojnarowski reported, the contract of the most valuable player of last season's finals, Leonard, will be for 4 years and amount to $142 million.

In Poland, one of the last surviving victims of the Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death", 85 -year -old Eva Moses Cor. She and her twin sister Miriam, being children, were subjected to inhuman experiences of Mengel in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz-Birkenu). Cor died at a hotel in Krakow during her annual educational visit to Auschwitz.

The former absolute world champion in the heavy weight category Mike Tyson commented on the rating of bad guys in the sports from ESPN. The list was headed by the striker of Barcelona and the Uruguayan Luis Suarez national team, the second place has the English football player Joei Barton, and Tyson is only the third. Speaking at a meeting with fans in Kiev, the boxer noted that it was he who was supposed to lead this rating. “I am the third? And who is the first? Suarez? I don’t know this guy.