In the hottest emirate of the UAE, the air temperature dropped below zero in the morning. Photo by @Engr_Naveed111 on the Arabian Peninsula, which is considered one of the hottest places on the planet, On February 3, snow fell covering the Jebel Jess mountain range and the hills in northern Saudi Arabia. Due to bad weather and strong winds in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and some other cities of the UAE, many parks and walking areas were closed.

A couple from Russia travels the world in the company of a potted plant. St. Petersburg resident Boris and Olesya from Kursk maintain a joint online blog on Odnoklassniki, where they talk about their travels. They carry aloe with them in a small pot. The plant has already traveled with them to Latin America and Israel.

republic.ru A federal court in Seattle has suspended the Trump law. The ban is aimed at decreeing tougher immigration policies. We are talking about the decree of US President Donald Trump on tightening migration policy (we wrote more about it here ). The states of Washington and Minnesota filed suit. The decision was made by Judge James Robart. He also recognized the right of states to challenge Trump's order, although government lawyers argued otherwise.

Passengers' opinions on the "temple bus" are divided, but the fleet director says there have been no complaints. In Khabarovsk, an Orthodox bus, blessed by a local clergyman, started its flight. In the cabin, according to passengers, there is a smell of incense instead of gasoline, and icons are hung instead of advertising. A story about Christian transport appeared in the “ Typical Khabarovsk ” group on VKontakte.

techcrunch.com Facebook’s new “Discover People” feature wants to help you make friends Facebook is rolling out a new section on mobile called "Discover People," which encourages users to introduce themselves by updating their profile, then.. The Facebook mobile app for iOS and Android now has the “Discover People” feature, which allows you to find a company for an upcoming event, collaborate with work colleagues, or find a couple for a date.

The job requires paid time off with a “maximum margin.” A shot from the Pipe Dream video on the DC Shoes YouTube channel On February 3, the Russian company Sravni.ru, which aggregates offers from insurance companies, posted a vacancy for an “insurance claims tester” on the HeadHunter website.

Alexey Konyaev was called a hero and presented with gifts. On February 2, traffic police inspector Alexey Konyaev, who became famous for rescuing a girl from a car drowning in the Moscow River, was invited to the “Evening Urgant” show. In order to get the victim out of the car, he, together with another eyewitness to the incident, broke out the rear window with a piece of ice. Konyaev said that on the evening of January 26, the crew learned about the incident while patrolling the route.

Roskomnadzor and the largest Russian mobile operators have figured out how to renew the license to work with 3G in Russia, but not fall under sanctions because of Sevastopol and Crimea. To do this, the department will make changes to the licenses so that new regions are not mentioned in them, RBC reports . The fact that the Big Three operators may have problems renewing their 3G license due to sanctions became known at the end of January.

A court in the Saratov region sent a 12-year-old boy to a juvenile detention center at the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs for knowingly false denunciation. A schoolboy from the city of Engels will spend ten days in prison. This was reported on the website of the prosecutor's office for the Saratov region.

tass.ru Media: the first commercial launch of Proton is scheduled for April As the head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov said, this will not affect the federal program in any way The head of the Roscosmos state corporation, Igor Komarov, assured that the first launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle will take place in April 2017. According to him, the recent scandal with engines will not affect government orders.

tass.ru The Kremlin denied the introduction of a border regime between the Russian Federation and Belarus.

, a publication for men's audiences Furfur , part of the Look At Media holding, has actually stopped updating. The project management explains that this is a lull before the upcoming update. Judging by the main page of the site, the latest news appeared on Furfur on January 17 (the corresponding menu section displays a blank page ). At the same time, on February 1 , an interview was published on the website , but it was not announced on the project’s social networks.

The President of Belarus spoke about the reasons for the appearance of the border zone with Russia, the attitude towards Russians and the criminal case against the head of Rosselkhoznadzor. Photo by Belteleradiocompany About Russia At the beginning of the press conference, Lukashenko spoke about the decision of the Russian administration to establish a border zone on the border with Belarus.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic initiated a criminal case against video blogger Ilya Davydov, known as Ilya Maddison. The reason for this was a joke about the Koran, voiced by Davydov in one of his stand-up performances. Ilya Davydov According to the Chechen prosecutor's office, on the video a psycholinguistic study was conducted .

They did not detain us; we had a conversation in the park. On January 28 in Almaty, a participant in the social experiment “What will happen to a suit made of real money?” Andrei Lobanov attracted the close attention of law enforcement officers. A week later, he told Kazday about what happened. According to him, law enforcement officers asked whether those distributing them had permission for the rally and suspected them of sectarianism or counterfeiting banknotes.