@irochka_vesna15 in St. Petersburg The “Singing Bridges” project has started : its organizers intend to accompany one of the main tourist “attractions” of the city, the raising of bridges on the Neva, with classical music. The Palace Bridge was the first to be set to music, and next year they also plan to “sound” the Trinity Bridge. You can hear music during breeding until September 25th. The instagram block is not available. The instagram block is not available.

After finishing second at the America's Cup and resting peacefully, Lionel Messi dyed his hair blond. The footballer's wife published a photo on Instagram with the new image of her star husband. Instagram block is not available Lionel Messi took silver at the America's Cup, for this reason he fell into depression, and recently there were trials against the football player for tax evasion.

An unknown person attempted to attack the torchbearer of the Rio 2016 Olympic flame during the relay leg in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo state. The man was promptly detained by security officers. He managed to hit one of the employees on the head, who grabbed him by the arms, after which he was thrown to the ground, and the relay race continued. The attacker's intentions and reasons for his action are unknown.

Kamchatka is a common noun for many of us. Everyone has heard the legendary phrase “It’s midnight in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky”, many at school were seated “in Kamchatka” on the last desks, but few residents of Russia have any idea what this, literally, the End of the World is like. A few personal impressions and photographs from fabulously distant places. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky It’s worth starting with the fact that the flight to the destination from Moscow lasts almost 8 hours.

On July 22, the annual festival of landscape objects “Archstoyanie” started in Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region. This year’s theme was “Shelter”, and new objects presented to visitors included the “Shadow Pavilion” in the shape of a pine cone, the “G-500 Shelter” in the form of a Mercedes-Benz Gelandewagen car buried up to its roof in the ground, which can be accessed through a hatch in the roof to sit inside and eat dry rations, and “The Head of the Homeless House” of 254 future paintings.

The Russian application Prisma, which turns photos into “paintings” using neural networks, has become available for download in the Google Play store. The beta version for Android appeared five days earlier. Prisma's co-founder told The Next Web that the iOS app has already been downloaded over 10.6 million times and has processed over 400 million photos. The daily active audience is over 1.55 million users. The app on Android has the same functions as on iOS.

In Al-Mutriba Kuwait on July 20, the highest temperature on the earth's surface was recorded at 54 degrees above zero on the Celsius scale, writes TASS . A record-breaking temperature of 54 degrees Celsius (129 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded on Wednesday in northwestern Kuwait, in the town of Al Mutriba. The data provided by Kuwaiti meteorologists was confirmed today, July 24, by the World Meteorological Organization (AMO).

In Rio de Janeiro, three bus stations on the route connecting the airport and the Olympic Park were temporarily closed. This happened after a shootout between drug dealers and the police. A police car came under fire near the Serrinha favela; according to media reports, 15 people armed with rifles and pistols were shot. The criminals fled, there is no information about arrests or casualties.

Updated at 17:10 . The IOC confirmed that it will not exclude the Russian team from participation in the Olympic Games, and the decision on the admission of specific athletes will be made by international sports federations. An hour before the official announcement of the International Olympic Committee’s verdict on the admission of Russian athletes to the Games, information appeared in several Russian media that Russians would be allowed to participate in the 2016 Olympics.

In the German city of Reutlingen, a man attacked women with a machete in the city center. One woman died, two were injured. Based on posts on social networks, it can be understood that the suspect has been detained. This was reported by Südwest Presse . Update, 20:00: The man who stabbed the woman turned out to be a Syrian refugee. Update, 20:50: Video has emerged of women being attacked with machetes. The motive for the attack is unknown.

www.jornada.unam.mx The mayor of the city of San Juan Chamula (Chiapas, Mexico) and three other local government officials were shot dead during riots that suddenly broke out. According to LaJornada, at about 6 a.m. on July 23, hundreds of protesters began flocking to the city administration building to demand an accounting of the allocation of 100 million pesos from the federal budget, which was intended for road construction, housing construction and support for small businesses.