On July 7, Australian Samantha Mills became the first champion of the Universiade in Kazan, winning a gold medal in meter springboard diving, while Russia took bronze in an uncharacteristic sport. With a total of five jumps, Samantha Mills scored 281.40 points. In turn, the second place in this competition was taken by the Chinese Jia Dongjin (277.75), and another representative of the Celestial Empire, Wang Liting (271.45), closed the top three.

Masha Rasputina, together with her husband and daughter, improved her health in China this year. The singer flew there for almost three weeks and enjoyed an acupuncture course. It is believed that this procedure affects the body’s condition only in the most positive way. Needles can strengthen the immune system and cardiovascular system, as well as relieve nervous tension and depression. “At first I was very afraid: I even squealed a couple of times,” Masha admitted to us.

On July 7, a terrorist attack occurred in the city of Bodh Gaya in northeastern India. Indian authorities say the bombs went off between half past five and six in the morning. According to The Times of India, in Bodh Gaya, where temples and relics sacred to all Buddhists are located, unknown persons detonated nine low-power bombs, as a result of which two Buddhist monks and two tourists were injured. Several churches also received minor damage.

Photo: Alexey Gyngazov / Russian Look They pull citizens down stairs and kidnap them in their trunks. Even women and children are not spared: some are beaten for intransigence, others are shot for mischief. They are our elected representatives: deputies, officials who have decided that they have the right to carry out lynching. You will answer for the cows Recently, in the Ulyanovsk region, a deputy from the small village of Studenets was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

Stress causes cancer. Photo by Reuters For a long time, scientists have been talking about a possible connection between stress and some forms of breast cancer. But numerous studies have yielded conflicting results. Maastricht University researchers analyzed several scientific papers talking about stressful episodes in a person’s life and the risk of breast cancer. It turned out that the death of a spouse, relative or friend influenced the corresponding risk.

On July 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Egypt is on the verge of civil war. “Syria is already engulfed in civil war, sadly, and Egypt is moving in the same direction. I would like the Egyptian people to avoid this fate,” said Vladimir Putin while on a working visit to Astana. It is worth noting that on the eve of the overthrow of the Egyptian President , Mohammed Morsi's assistant Essam el-Haddad said that a military coup was taking place in the country.

The US Government's Transportation Safety Board has apologized to the pilots of the Boeing 777 that crashed while landing at San Francisco Airport for the offensive "distortion" of the pilots' names. According to the Air Force, on July 12, the department received a message with offensively distorted names of pilots, which were announced in a news release of one of the American television channels.

On July 7, it was reported that Evgenia Vasilyeva, placed under house arrest as part of a case of theft at Oboronservis, has the right to three-hour walks in the fresh air. The defendant's lawyer, Alexander Gofshtein, also told reporters that Evgenia Vasilyeva can use this time to move around the city at her own discretion. “She has not one, but three hours for walks in the fresh air.

The “Bachelor” project - about a rich and famous man who chose a bride from almost 30 applicants - on the TNT channel became a real hit in the spring and summer of 2013. The other day they showed the finale - the main character, football player Evgeniy Levchenko, chose Olesya Ermakova. The unexpected outcome gave rise to dozens of rumors. I wanted Ira Volodchenko The first of them: Olesya’s victory was determined in advance!

One of the reasons for the Boeing 777 crash in San Francisco may have been a navigation system failure. Information has appeared on the website of the US Federal Aviation Administration that on the runway on which a Boeing 777 plane crashed while landing from Shanghai, electronic navigation has been turned off since June 1. The shutdown was supposed to last throughout the summer - until August 22.

On Wednesday, August 7, the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, which owned the oil train that capsized in Lac-Mégantic, filed for bankruptcy. The organization, which operated in Canada and the United States, filed a lawsuit in Bangor, Maine, and asked to be declared bankrupt in both countries. As foreign media write, the company made this decision due to a sharp decline in transportation orders and due to the fact that the road between the states of Quebec and Maine remains blocked.

Photo by Reuters Scientists at the Volgograd Botanical Garden decided to clone an old tree, since this poplar is the only tree in the city that survived the Battle of Stalingrad. How the poplar survived the Stalingrad hell, front-line soldiers are still perplexed. They say that at that time the young tree was all wounded, but no one raised the hand to cut it down.

At the end of June, there was sweltering heat in central Russia. And now everyone is worried: what will July be like then? At the beginning of July the heat will continue. According to preliminary forecasts, temperatures in the Central Federal District will be 1 degree above normal. For July in Moscow, the average long-term daytime temperature is +23.1 degrees, and with excess it turns out to be somewhere around +24 degrees.

78 workers of the Moscow City complex were taken to Moscow hospitals with suspected acute intestinal infection. According to Mir 24, citizens from near and far abroad sought medical help on the evening of July 6, after dinner in the working canteen of the Moscow City complex. Doctors suspect that they were poisoned by poor-quality food. More than a hundred victims sought medical help. 40 ambulances arrived at the migrants’ place of residence, located near the Belorusskaya metro station.

2 people were killed and 181 injured as a result of the crash of a Boeing 777 on the evening of Saturday, July 6, while landing at San Francisco Airport. As foreign media report, 181 people required medical assistance as a result of the crash of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Shanghai to San Francisco. About forty people, including children, are in serious condition. 2 people died.