And no one understands: why is this happening at all? Owners of iPhones with SIM cards from the British telecommunications operator EE received blank SMS messages dating back to 2003. As Metro writes , the appearance of such messages could be part of a malfunction in the operator’s networks or the operating mechanisms of the iMessage application itself. The second version is also confirmed by the fact that not all of the users who received the mysterious SMS use EE services.

How Dmitry Kiselyov communicated with an activist from the National Liberation Movement. On March 14, representatives of the National Liberation Movement (NOD) staged a picket near the VGTRK building calling on the media to cover information about the March 18 concert on Sparrow Hills in Moscow. The general director of the Rossiya Segodnya agency and host of the Vesti Nedeli program, Dmitry Kiselyov, came out to the activists.

The official McDonald's Twitter account took to Donald Trump and called him a "disgusting president." Almost immediately after publication, the tweet was deleted. @realdonaldtrump The full text read: "You really are a disgusting president and we want Barack Obama back, also you have small hands." The restaurant's appeal to Trump was noticed by other Twitter users.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has developed amendments that it plans to make to the document “General principles of official conduct of civil servants.” According to them, civil servants will be prohibited from criticizing the leadership on the Internet and speaking out about political parties even during non-working hours. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to sources in the department.

In Yekaterinburg, an employee of the migration police department was fired and fined, who bought herself an apartment, but could not explain where she got the money for it. The cost of the purchase exceeded her total income for three years, according to the website of the Sverdlovsk prosecutor’s office. The suspicious purchase was discovered after the prosecutor's office checked compliance with anti-corruption legislation.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 200 thousand rubles on rapper David Nuriev (Ptah) for inciting hatred and hostility towards activists of the public organization Antidealer. The performer himself called the sentence deserved, RIA Novosti reports .

Now she has rights and responsibilities. Photo 123RF One of the three largest rivers in Whanganui in New Zealand is recognized as a legal entity. In accordance with the law, the reservoir has its own rights and responsibilities. It will be possible to speak on behalf of the river in legal proceedings and draw up official appeals. This was reported by the New Zealand Herald.

Pandas are more likely to reproduce if they watch other pandas do so. The porn site Pornhub published a video on its YouTube channel dedicated to National Panda Day, which is celebrated on March 16. The authors asked viewers to help the animals with reproduction and to dress up or repaint themselves as pandas to film homemade porn. As Mashable reported , for every video published on the site, Pornhub promised to donate $100 to the panda fund and an additional dollar for each view.

How the story of a girl who fell in love with an enchanted prince in the guise of a monster has changed over the centuries. Book illustration by Walter Crane, second half of the 19th century Origins of the tale It is difficult to determine exactly when the plot of “Beauty and the Beast” took shape, but researchers of fairy-tale archetypes find its elements as early as Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” (1st century AD) or in “Cupid and Psyche” by Apuleius (2nd century AD) .

What should the “reboot” be like if it happens? On March 15, The Hollywood Reporter, citing anonymous sources, announced plans for Warner Bros. restart the cult “Matrix”, and without its original creators. Then I came across a Mashable article by editor Angie Khan, “How to Make The Matrix Reboot Don't Suck,” which got me thinking. Khan made five points in her material: 1. Forget Neo - both the character and the embodiment of the role by Keanu Reeves.

The reason was the inadequacy of educational content for people with disabilities. Northern Reading Room of the University of California Employees of the University of California at Berkeley (University of California, Berkeley, UCB) began removing audio and video recordings of their lectures from YouTube and the iTunes U educational service on March 15 local time.

As well as videos about other useful products. British reggae artist Macka B performed a freestyle about the beneficial properties of cucumbers. The video was noticed by UNILAD Sound. In the video, the singer holds a cucumber in his hand and talks about how many vitamins and minerals this vegetable contains, from which “nails and hair grow better, and bones become stronger.” In addition, Macka B notes the benefits of cucumbers in cleansing the kidneys and combating bad breath.

Investigators opened a criminal case under the article “fraud in the field of lending on an especially large scale” against officials of the bankrupt airline Transaero. The managers are accused of embezzling 350 million rubles, reports , citing sources in law enforcement agencies. Kommersant As the investigation found, in September 2009, Transaero took out a loan from Alfa Bank in the amount of 665 million rubles until the end of June 2015.

The tiger stood at the entrance to the base for six years, but then attention was drawn to it on Twitter. The Indonesian army has torn down a tiger statue at a base in West Java province after it became a local meme within days due to the animal's facial expression. The base command explained the decision to remove the sculpture as “not a very good job of the master,” reports .

The Russian Ministry of Health presented a revised version of the anti-tobacco concept. According to the project, by 2035 it is proposed to ban the free sale of tobacco. this . reports TASS With this, the department actually announced that cigarettes are equal to other goods, the free sale of which is prohibited in Russia: weapons, nuclear waste, some medicines, precious stones, uranium, drugs and ethyl alcohol.