Discus thrower Piotr Malachowski from Poland, who won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics, put the award up for auction. Sport Express reports this. The athlete will donate the proceeds to the treatment of a child with cancer. On his Facebook page, Malakhovsky said that after the competition the mother of a three-year-old boy, who has a malignant tumor of the retina, contacted him and asked for help.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kirov Region opened a criminal case against a kindergarten teacher for the unlawful deprivation of liberty of a minor, the department's press service reports . The investigation found that one day during a walk, a four-year-old pupil of kindergarten No. 220 “Zvezdochka” was locked by the teacher in the storage room of the veranda as punishment for bad behavior.

Mark Zuckerberg sold several hundred thousand shares of Facebook to finance his family’s philanthropic initiative, Kommersant writes . On August 19, philanthropic companies Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Holdings and the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation sold more than 760 thousand shares of Facebook worth about $95 million. This is the first of many sales planned by Zuckerberg to fund the fight against problems in health, science and education.