People who exercise regularly for two hours a week experience less joint pain, visit the GP less often and take fewer sick days. The Guardian writes about this with reference to the results of a study by British scientists. The study, from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Nuffield Health and Frontier Economics, looked at more than 40,000 people with joint pain.

By the end of 2025, a bill developed by the Ministry of Transport regulating the use of unmanned vehicles on public roads will be submitted to the government. As TASS reports , Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin spoke about this while speaking at the Digital Transportation 2025 forum. “The bill is under development. We are developing it together with business, and it is supported by the industry community. We will submit it to the government by the end of the year,” he said.

A tourist from Russia, Sergei Frolov, drowned in the sea on the island of Phuket in Thailand, not far from the hotel where he was staying. The 48-year-old man arrived on vacation at the end of September and three days ago stopped answering phone calls. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the Russian consulate. The consulate said that its employees are in touch with the relatives of the deceased, the travel agency and the insurance company.

The postponement of the Russian-Arab summit in Moscow planned for October 15 indicates that Vladimir Putin is losing influence in the Middle East. This is stated in a column by Peter Sauer for the British newspaper The Guardian. It is noted that the Russian authorities announced the summit in April of this year and prepared it for several months.

The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that in two weeks a beta version of a new Internet encyclopedia called Grokipedia will be released. The entrepreneur reported this on the social network X. "Early beta version of Grokipedia 0.1 will be published in two weeks," Musk wrote. Previously, he said that the project is being created based on the artificial intelligence Grok, developed by his company xAI.

In the UK, a 51-year-old teacher secretly filmed schoolgirls aged 14 and 15 under the skirts. During the investigation, dozens of other pornographic images of children were found on his phone. The Harborough Mail writes about this. Stuart Norris worked as a mathematics teacher at Thomas Estley Community College.

In Chile, an employee of an agri-food company was mistakenly awarded a lump sum salary for 27 years of work. Having received an amount 330 times higher than his monthly salary, the man quit, and the company that sued him for the return of funds lost the case. Diario AS writes about this. The events took place back in May 2022.

In the technological and trade confrontation between the United States and China, Europe will be the main victim. Its economy is heavily dependent on American IT companies to provide digital infrastructure and China to control the processing of rare earth metals. The Financial Times writes about this. Recently, this confrontation has noticeably intensified . The United States is limiting the export of advanced microchips and equipment for their production to China.

A resident of Moscow named Alina said that after the removal of a wisdom tooth at the private clinic “Institute of Innovative Dentistry,” she lost some teeth, and her face became asymmetrical. She shared her story with the telegram channel “Caution, Moscow.” At the end of last year, a Russian woman turned to the Institute of Innovative Dentistry to remove a horizontally lying wisdom tooth. According to her, after the operation the stitches came apart and bleeding began.

In Kazakhstan, a court sentenced 51-year-old “traditional healer” Sulushash Kazbayeva, who forced people to take out loans for a “good cause” and swore by the Koran that she would return the money. This was reported by the ORDA telegram channel. According to investigators, Kazbaeva deceived 136 people by issuing loans in their names totaling 579 million tenge - that’s about 116 million rubles.

The party of billionaire and Eurosceptic Andrej Babis “Action of Dissatisfied Citizens” (ANO) is leading in the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic. Politico believes that the Czech Republic will now become a “new headache” for Europe. After 98% of the ballots were counted, ANO received about 35% of the vote and confidently beat the center-right coalition SPOLU (Together) led by incumbent Prime Minister Petr Fiala, which received about 23%.

Ekaterina Burnashkina, a 19-year-old Russian woman who in 2024, while on vacation in Antalya, gave birth to a child in the airport toilet and left him in the toilet, gave her first interview to journalist Ksenia Sobchak. The girl claims that she did not know about the pregnancy, does not remember the birth itself, or how she abandoned the child. Restoring the chronology of events, Sobchak showed video from airport surveillance cameras.

Low-wage workers in the UK are forced to skip meals, take out microloans and turn to food banks, according to a new study published by The Independent. Experts have said the "devastating" impact of low pay on people's lives. The study was conducted among workers earning less than the so-called real living wage - £12.60 per hour nationally and £13.85 in London (in rubles this is approximately 260 thousand per month for a standard eight-hour work).

A resident of the American state of Texas, Ann Walter, noticed a large object in the sky approaching the ground. He later landed in her neighbor's wheat field, descending on a huge parachute with the logos of the American aerospace agency NASA, ABC TV reported . The woman told reporters that the object that landed was the size of an SUV, and also published a photo of it on her social networks. According to her, having noticed an unknown device in the sky, she reported it to the local sheriff.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky offered American leader Donald Trump Ukrainian drones in exchange for Tomahawk cruise missiles. “This war is a technological war. You don't just use Tomahawk. If you want to hit a military target, you need thousands of drones. We have thousands of serial drones, but we don’t have Tomahawk,” Zelensky said . According to him, Ukraine and the United States can cooperate on this issue. The Russian admitted to killing his wife and two children.