The Falcon 9 unmanned cargo missile successfully launched from Cape Kanveral in Florida with a Dragon truck for the International Space Station (ISS). The broadcast was conducted on the NASA website. The first step of the rocket has successfully landed at the cosmodrome, according to SpaceX Twitter. https://twitter.com/spacex/status/754902271515701248?ref_SRC=twsrc%5etfw The American space truck is attached to the ISS on July 20. On board the cargo ship is about two tons of food and equipment.

Aeon - that a person’s preferences in a dream can tell about his psychology Club visitors in London. Dylan Martinez / Reuters People in relation to sleep are divided into two main types: some like to get up and go to bed later (“owls”), others - “larks” - prefer the right opposite. It is unlikely that it will seem surprising to anyone that the people of these two types as a whole differ in character traits.

Four people, including three police officers, became victims of shooting in Alma-Ata. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan. As specified in the message, the opening of the shooting tried to capture the passenger car of the local resident, as a result of which the driver was injured and died. Three police officers died on the way to the hospital. The shootout next to the police station in Alma-Ata occurred on Monday morning.

Mental and physical training affect different functions of the human brain. Cognitive loads improve the functioning of the “executive system” of the brain, and aerobic contribute to the development of memory, scientists say. The work of researchers of the Center for Health of the University of Texas in Dallas (USA) was published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience on July 18 . The study was attended by 36 healthy adults aged 56–75 years, accustomed to a sitting lifestyle.

The head of Istanbul police, Mustafa Kaliscan, ordered to knock down any helicopters without warning that will appear over the city without permission. This was reported by Anadolu. In addition, about 1.8 thousand fighters of the police special forces Cobra and Dragon were thrown to Istanbul from other regions of Turkey for strategically important objects and streets of the city. Whether aircraft equipment has not been reported to supporters of the coup.

The government discuss the deprivation of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAC) of the CIS of the remaining powers in Russia. It is reported by Kommersant. According to the sources of the publication, in June, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich instructed to study the opportunity to transfer the authority of the Committee on the Investigation of Aviation Accidents to Russian bodies and the exit from international agreements related to the IAC.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation considers the possibility of increasing the tax burden on oil and gas companies in the context of a large budget deficit in the current and next year. The newspaper "Vedomosti" writes about this in the issue of July 18 with reference to unnamed sources in the government. According to the interlocutors of the publication, the Ministry of Finance decided to extend this year the action of increased NPPs (mining tax tax) on gas.

The main (so far) domestic political Russian event of this year is an attempt by a coup in Turkey. There is no paradox, and even more so there is no reason for pride in the universal responsiveness of the Russian soul - there would be responsiveness, with the Turkish coup at least a terrorist attack in Nice would compete, but no, we only have a reason for the format on -duty tactlessnesses “but would be friends with us, no one would die”.

In Turkey, after an attempt by a military coup, officials were forbidden to leave the country. This was reported by the publication Cumhuriyet . In addition, civil servants were forbidden to go on vacation. Earlier in Turkey, 7.8 thousand police officers, 614 gendarmes, as well as 30 provinces and 47 district governors were removed from work. 123 generals and admiral were taken into custody, they have already begun to interrogate. In addition, 61 judges and prosecutor were arrested.

The military coup in Turkey failed, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan retained power. The markets reacted positively to this news: the Turkish Lira again strengthened after the collapse to the dollar late in the evening of Friday, when the first messages appeared about the uprising of the country's army against the current government.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to develop measures to transfer state consumption to Russian cryptographic algorithms and encryption. This was reported on the Kremlin website.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Vada) has found confirmation of the facts of using doping by Russian athletes at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, said the head of the VADA commission to investigate possible fraud with doping tests, Richard Maklaren at a press conference in Toronto.

Inflation in Venezuela this year will be 480%, and in 2017 it will reach 1640%. Such a forecast was given in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), writes The Wall Street Journal. The IMF expects that the increase in prices in the country in the next two years will increase even more. In 2018, inflation may accelerate to 2880%, and in 2019 - to 3497%.

Near the police station in the city of Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan there was a shootout. It is reported by Reuters with reference to eyewitnesses. According to them, the shooting man is armed with a gun. According to the source of the agency in law enforcement agencies, two police officers died as a result of shooting. RIA Novosti, citing a source in power structures, writes that at least one policeman died during shooting, several more people were injured.

The Norwegian Opera Software will sell a business for the development of a mobile and desktop browser for Chinese investors for $ 600 million, Reuters reports with reference to the company's statement. According to Opera, the transaction for the sale of the total business for $ 1.24 billion was not approved by the Chinese regulator. In particular, the company did not receive permission to sell a business for the development of applications, games and an advertising unit.