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motor neurone disease. The actor's son, David Niven Junior, recounted the fateful events which led up to his death in an interview back in 2009. David Niven's dramatic decline left an indelible impression on his son.

Her Majesty the Queen’s health after it has emerged that the traditional royal welcome to Balmoral Castle has been cancelled – to be replaced with a “small, private event”, according to reports.Her Majesty is known to be keen on performing as many of her traditional duties as possible.However it was felt that the annual inspection of a Guard of Honour from Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal ­Regiment of Scotland might be too much off for the 96-year-old monarch. READ MORE: Queen's Christmas Day snub of Harry and Meghan erupted into 'fury', expert claimsA royal source told the Mirror: “The traditional welcome to Balmoral is normally cemented in the Queen’s calendar and something Her Majesty really enjoys, being able to greet locals who travel to see her.“It’s a bitter disappointment the ceremony will not take place in its traditional form.”Last year, Her Majesty was visibly delighted to witness a performance from The Pipes and Drums of the regiment’s 3rd Battalion and meet the Royal ­Regiment of Scotland’s mascot, Shetland Pony Lance Corporal Cruachan IV.This year, it is understood, Her Majesty will still cast her eye over the soldiers but there will be no TV cameras, photographers or reporters invited.The sovereign has been forced to miss a number of other events including a Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral and the Epsom Derby due to “tiredness”.The Queen has been staying at Craigowan Lodge on the Balmoral estate since arriving in Scotland on July 21.A large delivery truck, apparently delivering furniture from Windsor, was seen parked outside the lodge at the weekend.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia fire crews were called to an early morning house fire in West Philly.The call came a little before 12:30 Sunday morning, on the 100 block of North 59th Street.Firefighters were able to contain the blaze in about 20 minutes.RELATED HEADLINES:The fire happened in the same location where more than 150 gallons of gasoline were discovered in milk jugs August 1.Officials have not said if the fire is related.

Philadelphia police investigate the shooting death of a 37-year-old man in Kingsessing. KINGSESSING - A 37-year-old man has been killed in an overnight shooting in Philadelphia's Kingsessing section.According to authorities, the shooting happened on the 5300 block of Greenway Avenue early Sunday morning, around 2:15.Responding officers found the 37-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest.MORE HEADLINES:He was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he died a short time later.Police are investigating the scene.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia officials have declared a Heat Health Emergency, due to oppressive heat forecast for Monday and Tuesday.The emergency is set to begin at noon Monday, August 8 and end at 8 p.m. Tuesday, August 9.The city is able to put in place emergency heat programs, including Philadelphia Corporation for Aging’s Heatline (215-765-9040), home visits by field teams, daytime outreach for the homeless and cooling centers.Officials also remind residents to check on their vulnerable friends and neighbors, during this time of extensive heat."The Health Department declares a Heat Health Emergency when the temperature gets high enough that vulnerable people – especially our elderly neighbors and family members – are at an increased risk of getting sick or dying from the heat," said Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole.

NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Police in North Philadelphia are investigating a shooting that left a 42-year-old man in critical condition.Officials say 6th District officers were called to the 600 block of Franklin Place Sunday afternoon, just after 2:30, on the report of shots fired.Police found the victim was shot in the head when they arrived.MORE HEADLINES:The man was rushed to Jefferson Hospital by medics, where he was placed in critical condition.Police are actively investigating possible motives into the shooting.

PHILADELPHIA - A reunion party took a shocking turn when police say an old tree came falling down Sunday afternoon.Six people were reportedly injured when the tree fell on the 5300 block of Georges Hill Driver around 12:20 p.m.Police say they ranged in age from 66-67 years old, and were all transported to local hospitals in stable condition.MORE HEADLINES:SkyFOX was live over the scene where the collapsed tree could be seen with debris underneath, and several tents surrounding it.The injured people were all attending a reunion party for a graduation class, according to police.This is a developing story.

NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi may unveil an umbrella healthcare programme on 15 August that will subsume existing flagship schemes, three officials aware of the plans said. The new scheme, tentatively called the PM Samagra Swasthya Yojana, will aim to provide universal access to equitable, affordable and quality healthcare. Apart from this, Modi will also launch two more schemes—Heal by India to send doctors abroad to perform medical procedures; and Heal in India to promote medical tourism in the country, the officials cited above said on the condition of anonymity.

Three women shot in North Philadelphia, police say. PHILADELPHIA - Two overnight shooting in Philadelphia have left four women injured in the hospital, according to police.Police say several shots were fired on the 1300 block of North Newkirk Street around 2:14 a.m.

Less than four hours before departure, Ryan Farrell was surprised to learn his flight from Yellowknife to Calgary had been cancelled.

Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina speaks at a press conference ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Police say the killing of a Muslim man on Friday night in Albuquerque may be linked to the ambush shooting deaths of three Muslim men over the past nine months in New Mexico’s biggest city.Police said Saturday that the victim in the latest killing was a Muslim from South Asia who is believed to be in his mid-20s. The man, whose identity hasn’t yet been confirmed by investigators, was found dead after police received a call of a shooting.Earlier this week, police confirmed that local detectives and federal law enforcement officers were looking for possible ties among the separate crimes.

Stephen Marlow (FBI) BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Ohio - A suspect wanted in Ohio in the shooting deaths of four people, including a teenage girl, has been arrested in Kansas, authorities said.Police in Montgomery County’s Butler Township said late Saturday night that 39-year-old Stephen Marlow was taken into custody by local police in Lawrence, Kansas. Chief John Porter said Marlow will be extradited to Ohio to face charges in the slayings.Court documents don’t list an attorney representing Marlow; a message seeking comment was left Saturday at a number listed in his name.Officers were called to the Ohio neighborhood shortly before noon Friday on a report of shots fired and found four victims with gunshot wounds at multiple crime scenes, police said.

INDIANAPOLIS - As Indiana lawmakers debated before becoming the first state to pass a near total abortion ban since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one lawmaker proposed an amendment to outlaw the sale of drugs for erectile dysfunction and sexual impotence."Some may think this is a joke, but it takes two for a pregnancy to come about, and to put all the onus onto a woman, I just think it’s unfair," Indiana Rep.

Covid-19 cases and nine Covid-19 deaths.  Maharashtra health department further informed that 16 patients of BA.2.75 and three patients of BA. 4 and 5 sub-variants have been found in the state, adding that, so far, all these cases have been reported from Pune.

Covid related deaths. There were 1,725 recoveries in past 24 hours. With Sunday's addition the total active case in the city rose to 8,045.

Scene outside Cincinnati bar where nine people were hurt in a shooting (WXIX) CINCINNATI, Ohio - At least nine people were wounded — none critically — in a shooting outside a Cincinnati bar early Sunday, police there said.Most of the victims suffered wounds to their lower halves, Lt. Col.

PTI report citing AP, the United States President Joe Biden had tested negative Saturday, clearing the way to emerge from an isolation that lasted longer than expected because of a rebound case of the virus. The White House physician, Dr.

St. Paul, Minn. (Fox 9) - Traffic cameras captured a dramatic crash late Saturday afternoon in Little Canada: the footage shows a group of teenagers in a stolen Kia smashing into a median on Interstate 35E northbound after the driver attempted to avoid police stop sticks.The video then shows the group of four teens jumping out of the smoking vehicle and running across the highway, dodging traffic to flee to the other side of the road.

Whitesnake have removed themselves from a 24-date tour of North America, which they were scheduled to co-headline with Scorpions, due to frontman David Coverdale’s ongoing health issues.Coverdale broke the news in a statement shared to the band’s official Instagram yesterday (August 6). In it, he noted that he’s been forced to step away from the mic “due to my continued treatment for a persistent upper respiratory infection that affects my ability to perform”.A post shared by David Coverdale (@whitesnake)As a result of Coverdale’s continuing health issues, Whitesnake’s own headline shows in the US have also been cancelled.

Anne Heche reportedly suffered severe burns after her car crashed into a Los Angeles house on Friday morning, several media reports claim.According to a statement from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), “a solo passenger vehicle struck and came to rest well within a 738 square foot two-story home in the Mar Vista neighbourhood, causing structural compromise and erupting in heavy fire prior to LAFD arrival.”“Fifty-nine firefighters took 65 minutes to access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure,” the statement published on their website said. ‘The Brave’ TV show: Mike Vogel and team foray into world of undercover special ops The LAFD added that they rescued one female adult found within the vehicle, who was taken to an area hospital in critical condition by LAFD Paramedics.The LAFD told Global News they cannot provide further information about the woman involved in the incident due to privacy reasons.Media outlets such as CNN, Los Angeles Times and CBS suggest that the person involved was 53-year-old actress Anne Heche.She is now in stable condition, a representative for the actor told People magazine.Anne Heche is in the hospital severely burned from a car accident this is really tragic.

COVID-19 experience long-term symptoms or what is often known as long COVID.Long COVID refers to any of more than two dozens symptoms that linger, recur or first appear at least one month after a coronavirus infection. These can affect all parts of the body and may include fatigue, shortness of breath, brain fog and blood clots.

EAST FALLS - A terrifying scene in Philadelphia’s East Falls neighborhood Saturday ends without injuries.A seven-year-old boy called 911 saying a man known to police was inside a house assaulting his mother.It happened around 3:30 Saturday afternoon on the 5500 block of Wissahickon Avenue.MORE HEADLINES:Police declared it a barricade situation a short time later.The SWAT team eventually got inside the residence and arrested the man without incident.Two children and a woman were inside and shaken up.

Covid-19: India's active caseload currently stands at 1,34,933 India recorded 18,738 fresh Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the active caseload to 1,34,933 at present, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The daily positivity rate is 5.02%, while the weekly positivity rate is 4.63%. A total of 18,558 people have recovered from the coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, while the total number of recoveries stand at 4,34,84,110.

Today we are reporting 3,302 community cases and 606 current hospitalisations. 

A fatal accident on southbound I95 at Academy Road is under investigation. TORRESDALE - One person has died after a multi-vehicle accident on southbound I95 in Philadelphia.Officials say the accident happened Saturday evening, just after 6:30, on 95, at Academy Road in Torresdale.One person was killed in the crash.

INDIANAPOLIS - Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, one of Indiana’s largest employers, said it will be "forced to plan for more employment growth outside our home state" after Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade."Lilly recognizes that abortion is a divisive and deeply personal issue with no clear consensus among the citizens of Indiana," the Indianapolis-based company said in a prepared statement.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A divided Senate voted Saturday to start debating Democrats’ election-year economic bill, boosting the sprawling collection of President Joe Biden’s priorities on climate, energy, health and taxes past its initial test as it starts moving through Congress.In a preview of votes expected on a mountain of amendments, united Democrats pushed the legislation through the evenly divided chamber by 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie and overcoming unanimous Republican opposition. The package, a dwindled version of earlier multitrillion-dollar measures that Democrats failed to advance, has become a partisan battleground over inflation, gasoline prices and other issues that polls show are driving voters.The House, where Democrats have a slender majority, could give it final approval next Friday when lawmakers plan to return to Washington.RELATED: Democrats' economic package: What remains in and what's out?The vote came after the Senate parliamentarian gave a thumbs-up to most of Democrats’ revised 755-page bill.

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SALT LAKE CITY - Authorities said they have arrested a man they believe stole an excavator from a construction site and drove it for nearly a mile before ripping up the ground at a local grocery store. Salt Lake City Police in Utah said the incident happened Saturday just after 12 p.m. local time.

Archie Battersbee's mother, Hollie Dance, (centre-right) speaking outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, after the High Court judgement on the future of the 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute aft LONDON (AP) - A 12-year-old boy who had been in a coma for four months died Saturday at a London hospital after doctors ended the life-sustaining treatment his family had fought to continue.Archie Battersbee’s mother, Hollie Dance, said her son died at 12:15 p.m., about two hours after the hospital began withdrawing treatment. British courts had rejected both the family’s effort to extend treatment and a request to move Archie to a hospice, saying neither move was in the child’s best interests."I’m the proudest mum in the world,″ Dance said as she stood outside the hospital and wept.

John Ramsey described his daughter JonBenet as 'an extrovert, very outgoing, full of energy and personality.' (Credit: Fox News Digital/Ramsey family) EXCLUSIVE - JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old pageant queen mysteriously murdered in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado, home on Dec. 26, 1996, would have turned 32 years old on Saturday."She was a daddy's girl," John Ramsey, JonBenet's father, told Fox News Digital the day before his daughter's birthday.

FELTONVILLE - A Feltonville recreation center is making a positive impact on Philadelphia youth, holding a free event of exercise and coming together in safety."Today is basically providing a great outlet for the kids, with something to do. You know, some positive stuff to do, where we offer time. We have offer a commitment to the youth," Hassan Grimes, Sr.

An explorer holds a gold coin found in the Bahamas as an Allen Exploration boat can be seen in the distance. (Brendan Chavez/Allen Exploration) Talk about a find.A treasure trove of jewels, medallions and historic artifacts has been uncovered in the Bahamas that date back to the legendary 17th century Maravillas shipwreck — and the public is about to get a look at it.Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders), a two-deck Spanish galleon, sank on Jan.