Women whose night sleep lasts five or less hours, more often suffer from overweight or obesity. The weight gain occurs, despite the relatively small amount of food consumed, American scientists have installed. The lack of sleep is also one of the risk factors provoking the development of diabetes and high blood pressure. Slone problems, first of all, are characteristic of women, and they only intensify with age, affecting metabolism.

In the capital of Ingushetia Magas, on Thursday, the State University was blown up by a car. "According to preliminary data, there are no victims and the victims. The incident occurred at the parking lot of the Ingush State University," Interfax was told in law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia. According to one of the sources of the agency, at 10:55 the VAZ-2107 car belonging to the dean of the philological faculty Magomed Kulbuzhev was undermined.

The auction house Sotheby's plans to open its first office in Moscow in a few months and hopes that the "first step" will launch the long -term presence of the famous auction house in Russia. This was announced by the head of the Russian art department of Sotheby's Joanna Vikeri at the opening of works by Russian art, which are put up for auction in the British capital on May 31, on Thursday in London in London.

On Thursday, Russia and the European Union announced the launch of a new project aimed at liberalizing the Russian criminal executive system, which provides for alternative types of punishment. The experiment, in particular, involves a new type of punishment not related to imprisonment, and provides for the wearing of electronic bracelets convicts. “We are allocating three million euros for this project.

The Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (FCS) prohibited the import of used cars into the territory of Russia that does not comply with the technical regulations "On the requirements for emissions of automotive equipment produced in the Russian Federation, harmful (polluting) substances." As stated in the message on the FTS website , which was published on Thursday, this regulations do not correspond to cars produced in the European Union until 1996 inclusive, in the USA - until

On Friday, in the Supreme Court of New York, a hearing will be held on the claim of American lawyer Julian Lowenfeld against the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and Lorafco, which spread its digest in the United States.

The international human rights organization Freedom House announced the day before a report on the maintenance of school textbooks recommended by the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia for teaching in public schools of the kingdom, the newspaper.gzt.ru reports today.

In Central China, a criminal is neutralized and arrested, who captured a group of primary school students on Wednesday. According to Xinhua on Thursday, one of the children was killed by the kidnapper. As the investigation established, a resident of the village of Loin (the Central -Chinese province of Henan) Yang Sinlun in a quarrel cut one and wounded the other fellow villager. Then he burst into a school, where he captured 19 children hostage.

Next year, the business community may encounter the problem of loss of performance of many arbitration vessels. The fact is that in 2007, more than half of the chairmen and deputy chairmen of arbitration courts expire.

The secret plan for ensuring the safety of Tony Blair from the attempt of terrorists was found in one of the hotels in the city of Manchester, where he was forgotten by someone, British newspapers report on Thursday with reference to the local police. This document considers the likelihood of “various scenarios of attempt” to the head of the British government and members of his office at the coming in the fall of the Blair Labor Party.

The Prime Minister, who recently voted for the independence of Montenegro Milia Dzhukanovich, in respect of whom Italy is investigating on suspicion of involvement in smuggling and relations with the mafia, in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa (text on the Inopressa.ru website) spoke about his country's plans for the near future.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the new convocation began on Thursday work. The speaker of the parliament of the past convocation Vladimir Litvin wished the deputies of fruitful work for the good of the country. He conveyed the floor to the oldest communist deputy Ivan Gerasimov, who, by tradition, read the text of the oath, which all parliamentarians have to sign.

The Russian ballet was probably the greatest threat for its 300-year history-because of the government bill , which will force young dancers to serve in the army for the first time. So on Thursday, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph comments on the bill on the reform of the Russian armed forces entered into parliament. As stated in the article, the bill caused an unprecedented confrontation between the Kremlin and the glorified ballet groups of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters.

In the American state of Florida, thieves stole from the kindergarten of the Japanese restaurant "Sakura" in one of the cities of the American state of Florida a 270-kilogram statue of Buddha. As the owner of the restaurant Ako Tarallo stated, “bad karma” will be punished to criminals. “I don’t think that they will be taken, there can be no good luck with those who stole the Buddha,” she said on Wednesday to reporters.

The Bogdanovka City Court of the Sverdlovsk Region on Thursday sentenced a local resident to three years in prison in a colony of general regime for the theft and killing of a cow. As Interfax was told in the press service of the regional court, in February 2006, 20-year-old Vladimir Sogrin, along with three accomplices at night, penetrated the local farm of the Ural collective farm, killed a cow there and cut it out. Later, the attackers sold the meat.