Новости за 09.06.2015

If you find yourself being interested in spending £8m on a car, you may pause to consider whether that’s God’s way of telling you that you’ve got too much money. Rowan Atkinson has just sold his 1997 McLaren F1 to a British buyer for a sum thought be close to the asking price of £8m. That represents 12 times what he paid for it 18 years ago, and would certainly be one of the highest-value second-hand car deals ever made on these shores.

An uneasy seven-year peace at Germany’s famously unruly Bayreuth Music Festival has come to a dramatic end worthy of a Wagner opera amid revelations that one of the composer’s great granddaughters had been secretly forbidden to direct the event, and banned forthwith from its premises.

When I was 13, I was moved down from the top set in maths. Not because I wasn’t any good with numbers – although those who know me might beg to differ – but because I kept distracting other pupils by being disruptive. I was an annoying teenager who found it more interesting to write stupid notes and pass them to the pupil sitting next to me than to draw Venn diagrams.

Alberto Salazar finally broke his silence on the doping allegations against him as the former head of British athletics and the man that uncovered Mo Farah’s running talent leapt to the defence of the British athlete.

"I wrote that play as a warning to myself – then ignored my own warning." Patrick Marber is talking about Howard Katz, a play he wrote in 2001 in which a 50-year old man has a midlife crisis. The playwright has now caught up to his character: he is 50 years old and, he says, "I did have a midlife crisis. I'm probably still having it. I did get lost and not know what I wanted and how to be in the world."

Ah, weddings on Pinterest: 38 million boards brimming with white, pink and gold for all to admire.

So this is the house that Edward Snowden built. The introduction of the Freedom Act last week has now reined in the NSA’s powers, particularly regarding the collection of telephony metadata. As part of this, phone records are now in the hands of private companies, rather than the state. This puts the US in the same situation as the UK and, in reality, senior figures in the US intelligence community are relaxed about this, providing the NSA can access them in a speedy manner.

The scenes from a McKinney pool party turned crime scene is all too familiar for black women. Activists have worked hard fighting for female victims of police brutality, but we don't always have the images to illustrate the horror.

Whether they're into minions, dinos, sparkles or daisies, we've got sandals to keep them comfortable and their feet protected as the mercury rises

In 1978 The Clash’s Joe Strummer presciently sang: "Ha, you think it’s funny, turning rebellion into money."

Liam (beautifully portrayed by David Moorst) is a geeky 17-year-old – a fastidious mummy's boy whose mother has recently died. With nowhere else to go till he gets his A Levels, he's been forced to move from the north to the Welsh valleys and live with Rick (Jason Hughes), the lager-swilling, hard-nut father whom he's never known but whose nickname (“Vile” for violence) is no misnomer. 

And with the Turkish election results in, the steady 13-year-old beat of the life support machine accelerates into action. Nurses flood into the room. Doctors drop their charts, and ask all to clear away. They look at the machine. They can't believe it. This, this wasn’t supposed to be. “Turkey has awoken!”

Mo Farah's coach Alberto Salazar has denied "all allegations of doping" in a statement released to The Guardian.

1. Another of Sir William Davenant’s wonderful views of old London. Here is the London Hospital, Whitechapel, in an open landscape as it appeared c1760. I think the church to the right is the white chapel, St Mary’s Matfelon, although its location is quite wrong: it should be further to the right, behind the hill, and aligned with the front of the hospital (it was destroyed in the Second World War and the site is now Altab Ali Park).

The city of Toronto is to make some major barriers fall after confirming it will play host to the world’s first-ever sex orgy for disabled people.

English comedian and actor Rik Mayall died of a heart attack on 9 June last year aged just 56, sparking an outpouring of tributes from fans of his classic scenes.

If you want to relax and feel calm then the scientific tip is to listen to the music of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, which is more likely to lower blood pressure than pop, rock or jazz.

In his story "The Library of Babel", the Latin American writer Jorge Luis Borges postulates the idea that there exists in the universe a library that holds all the books that ever have or ever will be written. I believe that in this library there's an entire wing, or sadder yet, several enormous wings, dedicated to all the dramatic works that have not been produced.

Christine Ohuruogu has leapt to the defence of Mo Farah after the Briton was dragged into the doping controversy concerning his United  States-based coach Alberto Salazar and training partner Galen Rupp.

It should be said at the outset that some very brilliant people have subjected the sanctity of Mo Farah’s achievements to the most unflinching journalistic scrutiny ahead of the crisis which now engulfs him. And they emerged from that process with the sum total of nothing.