The authorities of North Korea accused the United States of preparing the invasion of the republic, and also announced their readiness for a response nuclear strike, the Renhap agency reports. “The US attempts to invade the DPRK are becoming more desperate,” the agency quoted one of the North Korean officials. The report also notes that Pyongyang does not consider Washington a warning nuclear blow to Washington.

Lokomotiv players, after several hours of waiting at Vnukovo Airport, flew to Grozny for a match with Terek, according to the official Twitter of the Moscow Club. The board with the players landed at about 15:50 Moscow time. The team arrived in Grozny!

Anastasia Arkhipova , Ekaterina Neklyudova 10 The large -scale surge of the audience interest in the figure of Sherlock Holmes and in Sherlockian characters, such as Dr. House from the series of the same name, is a curious sign of the current era. What is this interest based on, why did Sherlock, apparently, become a “hero of our time”?

The Russian swimmer Julia Efimov admitted that the last nine days at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro against the backdrop of numerous reproaches from American athletes and the whistle of the stands were a real nightmare for her, USA Today Sports reports . “It was a war. It was like a nightmare. The end of the competition is a relief. I love to fight, but it was like war.

In Voronezh, the Boeing passenger ship made an emergency landing due to a crack in the windshield, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the emergency services of the region. “The aircraft by the Lipetsk -Sochi message was forced to land in Voronezh after the formation of a crack in the windshield at the second pilot,” the source said in a statement. According to the updated information, 54 passengers were on board the aircraft. Planting was normal.

A large group of UK, led by Isabelle de Groote from the University of Liverpool, John Mursa, published an article with a new analysis of Piltdaun Man - one of the most famous fakes in the history of paleontology. The authors write that they managed to establish the creator of the "Piltdown man." The sensation did not happen: it turned out to be one of the main suspects-a lawyer and amateur paleontologist Charles Dawson.

Gleb Korepanov On the right - Michael Felps. Olympiad website (Getty Images/Richard Heathcote) The Russian team rose to sixth place in the unofficial general team of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. According to the results of the eighth day of the competition on the account of athletes 23 medals: six gold, nine silver and eight bronze. Yesterday, Russian athletes managed to win only one medal.

The crew of the Pakistani Mi-17 helicopter, captured by Afghan Taliban, was released and delivered to Islamabad. Russian navigator Sergei Sevastyanov was transferred to the Russian Embassy in Pakistan, soon he must return home. None of the six people who were captured by the Talibin militants were injured. The liberation of the Mi-17 crew, which were captured by the Taliban after a rigid landing in Afghanistan, the Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune said with reference to its own source.

Members of the Islamist group from Nigeria Boko Haram published a video that presumably captured several girls from among the terrorists in 2014, BBC reports. The Islamists showed the recording of the appeal of one of the members of Boko Haram. Behind him, he has about 50 girls in hijabs. The terrorist demands to release the arrested members of the group in exchange for the liberation of stolen schoolgirls. According to the militant, some schoolgirls died during Nigeria Air Force strikes.

The number of those who died at the hands of the attacker who attacked passengers of the train in Switzerland increased to two people, the Associated Press agency with reference to the representative of the local police. On Sunday in the afternoon, the girl who suffered during the attack died in the hospital. The deceased was 34 years old. Three more passengers of the train, as well as the attacker himself, are in critical condition.

The Russian team rose to sixth place in the unofficial general team of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. According to the results of the eighth day of the competition on the account of athletes 23 medals: six gold, nine silver and eight bronze. Yesterday, Russian athletes managed to win only one medal. Russian sabbins Sofya the Great, Yana Yegoryan, Julia Gavrilova and Ekaterina Dyachenko won gold in team competitions. In the final, they defeated the Ukrainian team with a score of 45:30.

The organizers of the Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro called the reason for changing the color of the water in two pools, writes The New York Times. As stated, the water was green due to hydrogen peroxide used to clean the pool. The reagent fell into the water due to an employee’s mistake who did not take into account that hydrogen peroxide neutralizes chlorine, which was already in the water, which allowed the algae to spread. In total, about 160 liters of peroxide got into the pools.

The disciplinary commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the leadership of Guy Kaniva began an investigation against members of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, the German television channel Ard . The IOC Commission, in particular, intends to investigate the facts of supporting doping in Russian sports at the state level.

The petition against the “package” of the anti -terrorism laws of the State Duma deputy Irina Yarova and Senator Viktor Ozerov signed more than 100 thousand people. This is evidenced by the data of the Russian Public Initiative site . According to the conditions, the vote ended on August 14. Now the petition should be sent to the expert working group, which will make a decision within two months.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), together with the sports arbitration court (CAS), closed the doors for the last hope of Russian athletes at the Olympics in the Rio - jumping in the length of Daria Klisina, who lives and trains abroad. They referred to some "new information". On August 14, the only Russian athlete Daria Klisina, who was allowed to the Olympic Games in Rio, was removed from the competition. This happened at the last moment before her performance.