In the US, even preschoolers are obese, and many of them are beginning to show the first signs of comorbidities, such as diabetes. According to Reuters, these are the disappointing conclusions of American doctors. They hope that the obesity epidemic can be stopped by fixing each individual case at an early stage and applying to the patient a program of drastic lifestyle change - the introduction of diet and exercise therapy, and for the whole family and even for the whole school.

During the May Day demonstration in Perm, one of the trade union leaders of the Kama region, Vladimir Zhuk, died. According to the city ambulance station, Vladimir Zhuk had a heart attack at the time of the formation of the columns. Attempts by doctors to bring the victim back to life were unsuccessful. 68-year-old Vladimir Zhuk headed the Perm regional committee of the communications trade union. His funeral will take place on Monday in Perm, Novy Region reports.

The Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case on the illegal use of funds by the vice-governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Region Vyacheslav Zolotarev for personal purposes, Interfax reports. According to Konstantin Chaika, Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia for the Far Eastern Federal District, Zolotarev used equipment for personal purposes, including helicopters, which caused damage to the budget of the Chukotka Autonomous District in the amount of more than 750 thousand rubles.

A brick two-story house collapsed on the night from Sunday to Monday on another, one-story house on Chelyuskintsev Street in the center of Saratov, reports Regions.ru. There were 23 people in a two-story house, 8 in a one-story house. As a result, no one was injured. Around midnight, part of the wall of a two-story building broke off and fell on a one-story wooden house. It had a broken roof and ceiling.

As in the previous year, the farms gave preference to hired workers from China. A representative of the logistics service of the fleet informed Grany.Ru that "it's cheaper to feed the Chinese and they work better than Russian peasants." This year at least 100 Chinese citizens will work at the Mikhailovsky, Romanovsky and Zapadny military state farms.

The Military Prosecutor's Office of the North Caucasus Military District opened a criminal case against two sergeants from one of the military units in North Ossetia, from where 14 servicemen escaped last Sunday. A criminal case has been initiated under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "abuse of power" in connection with the beatings of subordinate military personnel, Interfax was told on Monday in the press service of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office.

This week, the joint Russian-Vatican commission for the study of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God is completing its work, writes Kommersant . Commission member Sergei Kravets said that the Vatican has a copy of the Russian national shrine, written two hundred years later. The icon of the Kazan Mother of God, which miraculously appeared in Russia in 1579, disappeared from the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square in 1904.

In the south of Turkey in the city of Adana on Sunday evening, four bombs exploded simultaneously, according to AP. One of the explosions occurred not far from the building of the American consulate. The authorities do not rule out that the purpose of the terrorists could be precisely the diplomatic mission. No one was injured in the explosions. Windows were shattered in nearby buildings.

Four American students agreed on May 1 to pay thousands of dollars as part of the settlement of their copyright infringement case. The lawsuit was filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on April 3rd. Recording studios accused students Daniel Peng of Princeton University, Joseph Nyvelt of Michigan Technological University, and Jess Jordan and Aaron Sherman of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of mass copyright infringement through student file-sharing networks.

In Ukraine, due to malfunctions in the generator cooling system, the evening before, it was disconnected from the power system, and then the second unit of the Zaporizhzhya NPP was completely unloaded. The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine reported to RIA Novosti that the level of radiation at the station is within acceptable limits. It is planned that the repair work will be completed on May 6.

Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) came to the conclusion that when studying the ways of spreading SARS, the so-called "food" route was underestimated. AR reports. Experiments also confirmed that the SARS virus can be transmitted through any objects on which it lives for several hours. It turned out that in the feces of those infected with pneumonia, this virus can live up to four days, and at temperatures below zero degrees Celsius, it lives for as long as you like.

Heavy snowfalls took place in Murmansk on the May holidays, which is a rare phenomenon even for the Arctic at this time of the year, Channel One reports. The snowfall took Murmansk motorists by surprise. They had to dig their cars out from under the snow. Forecasters say that warming will come to the Kola Peninsula only in the middle of the month. They do not rule out that snowfalls may repeat in early June.

The head of the Russian space corporation Energia, Yuri Semenov, made a statement on TVS about the reason for the emergency situation during the landing of the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft with the Russian-American crew of the ISS. According to Semenov, the ballistic descent, that is, a practically free fall, occurred due to the fact that "the American pressed the wrong button." The head of Energia added that the descent vehicle began to "go crazy" from such commands.

In Moscow on Monday morning, a strong wind knocked down six trees, Interfax was told at the headquarters for civil defense and emergency situations of the capital. According to the headquarters, at 11.25 on Mytnaya Street a tree fell on the contact line of the 50th trolleybus route. Now the movement of trolleybuses has been restored. At 13.25 on Flotskaya Street, a tree collapsed on the canopy of the entrance of a 9-storey building.

On Victory Day on May 9, Moscow will have warm weather without precipitation, Interfax was told on Monday at the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region. However, there will be intermittent rain in the coming days. According to weather forecasts, on Monday afternoon it will be plus 7-9 degrees, in the region - plus 6-11. Falls from 2 to 4 mm of precipitation.