Japan encourages young people to drink more alcohol

Poor dental health may be a contributing factor to a range of wider health problems including dementia, new research shows.

FILE IMAGE - The crown of the late Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, made of platinum and containing the famous Koh-i-noor Diamond, along with other gems. (Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images) LONDON - Hours after Queen Elizabeth II’s death, social media users in India began calling for the return of the famous Koh-i-Noor, a nearly 106-carat diamond discovered in India and obtained long ago by the British Empire.Britain’s longest-reigning monarch died on Sept.

Ashley Biden and Joe Biden attend Gilt x Livelihood Launch Event at 6 St. John's Lane on February 7, 2017 in New York City.

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is lifted at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on May 4, 2022, ahead of its second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) to the International Sp CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Boeing’s first spaceflight with astronauts has been delayed until next year because of repairs that need to be made to the capsule following its last test flight.Liftoff of the Starliner capsule with a pair of NASA test pilots is now scheduled for February, officials announced Thursday. They had hoped to launch it by year's end.Boeing has launched Starliner twice without a crew, most recently in May.

SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - An amazing opportunity for a young baker, as she will sell her goods inside some local grocery stores. It’s all thanks to a special program designed to give young entrepreneurs the leg up they need to get their businesses started."I’m making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Right now, I’m making 504 of them.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia mother says her daughter was left alone for hours at daycare after the class left for a field trip to a local amusement park. Dana Jones and her family picketed outside of Creative Kids Daycare Center in Mount Airy on Wednesday morning to publicize their frustration. "This should never have happened to my child and I want to make sure it never happens to any other child," Jones said. According to Jones, the incident happened a little over a week ago when the daycare had a planned trip to The Funplex.Jordyn, 6, was walked into the daycare by her father who even had a brief conversation with one of the teachers.MORE LOCAL HEADLINESJones said her daughter was in the bathroom when she heard the teachers rounding up the students to leave for the field trip. "While she was in the bathroom, she heard ‘hurry up’ and when she came out of the bathroom, there was no one to be found," Jones said.Daycare Director Darrel Davis acknowledged the child was somehow left behind and said they feel awful."It was one of those mornings where it was just a perfect storm of what happened, we are definitely thankful nothing happened to the child, she was perfectly safe," Davis said. Jordyn, 6, told her mother that she was in the bathroom when she heard teachers start to round up students to leave for a field trip. Creative Kids Daycare Center has been in business for over a decade and never had an incident like this, according to Davis. Another parent who was picking up their child found Jordyn all alone and took her to the daycare's other building a block away. "Me getting that phone call, working 30 minutes away, my mind went through so many scenarios," Jones said.

PETALUMA, Calif. - A welfare check at a home in Petaluma revealed a woman who had been dead in her home for over a year, with her daughter living in the same house with her mother's corpse the entire time, police said.Officers were called to the 200 block of Windsor Drive about 11 a.m. on Tuesday and saw piles of 20 to 30 packages stacked up on the porch, which KTVU also observed upon visiting the home. No one answered the door when the officers rang, and having heard concerns from the reporting party, officers decided to enter the house.Once inside, police saw the dead woman on a couch in the living room. "The conditions inside the home were unlivable in that it was filled with clutter, trash and boxes from floor to ceiling.

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Five people have been shot and two are dead after a shooting in Northwest DC, according to police.Northwest DC shooting FOX 5's Stephanie Ramirez is on scene. DC Police confirmed during a presser that five people had been shot, two of them had died and three were being treated at area hospitals.Police are responding 27 O Street NW.

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, Va. - A $49,000 pirate ship went viral after being posted on the popular social media page Zillow Gone Wild. The ship is for sale in Callao, Virginia, in the Commonwealth’s Northern Neck.The man who built it is Dan Corder, a retired Loudoun County firefighter who lives in Callao."It’s an exercise in renewal," Corder says, "giving life to lifelessness."This particular boat for sale is the 33rd Corder has fixed up.

17-year-old pilot Mack Rutherford at Biggin Hill Airport, Westerham, Kent, as he continues in his bid to beat the Guinness World Record for the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small plane. Picture date: Monday, August 22, 2022.

A burning feet sensation can signal wider health problems and can be caused by fatigue or skin infections, but is mostly due to nerve damage - or what's known as peripheral neuropathy.

TOKYO : Japan is planning to ease border controls with respect to COVID-19 restrictions by eliminating requirements for pre-departure COVID-19 tests for travellers who have received at least three vaccine doses. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday also announced that he will consider increasing daily entry caps as soon as next month.

The young musicians, Juna N Joey, will also be doing a short performance, along with the talk, at Paisley Grammar School.

outbreak of Covid-19.  Foreign nationals holding a valid Chinese residence permit for study or an APEC business travel card will be allowed to enter China starting Wednesday, the nation’s US embassy said in a statement posted on WeChat late Tuesday. Similar statements were made by China’s embassies in Japan and India.  While the country has been allowing some students to enter on an ad-hoc basis for some time, the move shows Beijing is attempting to normalize aspects of the economy -- while holding fast to its Covid Zero approach.

Canmore Golf and Curling Club has ever seen.“This was my third tournament ever,” Sanford said. “My past couple of tournaments I’ve gotten super nervous and completely messed up. This one, I just wanted to beat my last score.” PGA Tour Canada: golfers back to compete at Manitoba Open The 14-year-old picked up golf in the summer of 2021, inspired to get serious by her competitive friends.She was putting together a solid round when she stepped up to the 12th hole, the last of her group to tee off.“Everyone hit pretty good shots- some of them were on the green, some were just barely off,” Sanford recalled.

As the dominant circulating strain of SARS-CoV-2 evolved from Alpha to Omicron, the incubation period from infection to symptoms or first positive COVID-19 test result gradually decreased, from 5 to 3.4 days, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published today in JAMA Network Open.

Coroner says Quebec Health Department chose to ignore COVID-19 risk in long-term care The decision is in conflict with a formal recommendation by coroner Géhane Kamel, who investigated the high death toll in the province’s long-term care homes during the first wave of the pandemic.Kamel said Quebec should ensure that residential-care facilities are able to offer single rooms to patients to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 and other diseases among vulnerable people.The Health Department says the policy is a temporary measure, but it is not saying when the directive allowing an increase in room occupancy will be lifted.

TOKYO : Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has tested positive for Covid-19, forcing him to cancel a planned trip to Tunisia to attend a key conference on African development, a person close to him said on Sunday. Kishida, who has just returned from a week-long vacation, will work from his residence from Monday and will join the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) online, the source said, asking not to be identified because he is not authorised to talk to the media.

Man injured after fight erupts into shooting in Chinatown. PHILADELPHIA - A fight turned shooting left one person injured in Chinatown Saturday morning.Police say two men were walking down 10th Street around 5 a.m.

seal inside their home. Phil Ross, a marine biologist working at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, said his wife, Jenn, and two children, Noah and Ari, were home when they got the unexpected visitor. The seal had entered through the family cat’s cat flap of which there are two, one on the garage door and one on the interior door, Phil explained. The seal, which Phil identified as a 10-month-old New Zealand fur seal, managed to make its way into the house and proceeded to terrorize the family cat but Phil suspected the cat might have been mostly to blame. Seal seen in the hallway of the Ross home. (Jenn and Ari Ross)"I haven't heard of seals going through cat flaps before but I blame our cat, Coco.

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Health Canada approves 1st COVID-19 booster for kids 5-11 “High vaccination coverage in schools and the community will also help reduce the severity of illnesses during the expected fall and winter waves of COVID-19, in addition to influenza and other respiratory illnesses,” the statement from WPH noted.It says that keeping vaccinations up to date is the best way to prevent hospitalizations or death from COVID-19.Kids between the ages of six months and five years became eligible to be vaccinated at the end of July, with vaccinations now possible at family doctors or pharmacies.The region says it is also offering appointments at its vaccine clinics at 99 Regina St. in Waterloo or 30 Christopher Dr., although it is also welcoming walk-ins.

Doctors have outlined two kinds of people who are more prone to hospitalisation owing to the recent surge in the COVID-19 cases in the national capital. The national capital has witnessed a two-fold surge in Covid-19 hospitalisation in the last 15 days, with the daily tally rising steeply. Across the country cases have gone up by 25 per cent with 15,754 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health bulletin by the health ministry.

ATLANTA - Jeffery Williams, better known by his stage name Young Thug, appeared in court with several others who were re-indicted on additional charges into a street gang investigation in Fulton County.An attorney for Williams objected to a portion of the indictment on the basis of a speedy trial motion he filed in a prior hearing."I'm still going to leave the case on a 9 January 2023, posture for trial," Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville said.Glanville went through legal waivers with Williams, ensuring he understood his case had been re-indicted. Williams said he spoke with his attorneys about the new indictment. A prosecutor asked Williams to swear the statements he made in court on Thursday were truthful.Jeffery Williams, better known by his stage name Young Thug, appeared in court with several others who were re-indicted on additional charges into a street gang investigation in Fulton County.

Data collected from two vaccine safety surveillance programs in the first 10 weeks of administration of third doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 to US children aged 5 to 11 years show that serious adverse events were rare.

FILE - A woman uses her cell phone on Aug. 14, 2022, in Cervo, Lugo, Galicia, Spain.

People aged 55 and older can now register for a second Covid-19 booster vaccine.

Covid relief funds of around £3m are to be handed to hundreds of firms with high levels of unpaid business rates and to 38 other companies who failed to apply to the scheme. Bolton Council said 'take up has been low' for the Covid-19 Additional Relief Fund (CARF), a business rates relief fund of £5,697,827 which the authority received from central government earlier this year.

People give sample for coronavirus test as a precaution against the coronavirus (Covid-19) on July 31, 2022 (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) More than half of people who were likely infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant last fall didn’t know they had the virus, which could be why it spread so fast, a new study finds.The study, done by researchers at Cedars-Sinai hospital in California, is in line with other research showing that at least 25% — and up to 80% — of people infected with COVID-19 don’t show symptoms."Our study findings add to evidence that undiagnosed infections can increase transmission of the virus," Sandy Y. Joung, an investigator at Cedars-Sinai and an author of the study, said in a news release.

FILE - A person wipes sweat from their face as they exercise on the National Mall as temperatures reached 97 degrees Fahrenheit on August 12, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) More than 100 million Americans may experience a heat index higher than 125 degrees by 2053, according to a study published Monday by First Street Foundation.The 125-degree heat index is significant in that it marks the beginning of the National Weather Service's highest category for heat, known as "Extreme Danger." According to researchers, approximately 8 million Americans are expected to experience a heat index within the "Extreme Danger" category this year.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of children who fell victim to their crimes.U.S. District Judge Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 plaintiffs in a long-running civil suit against the judges.In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups.

hospitalisation has increased as Covid cases continue to surge in Delhi. Meanwhile, Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) VK Saxena has also urged the Delhiites to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour to check the rising infections in Delhi.

A small rise in the proportion of unemployed people in the UK could be a sign of worse things yet to come, economists have warned.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is urging people to come forward with information on violent crime after another weekend in the city plagued by multiple deadly incidents. On Friday night, twelve people were shot in at least six different shootings across the city, including a pregnant woman. Violence continued throughout the weekend when a man was shot multiple times in Kensington and a crash that left two dead and multiple others injured in West Philadelphia. During his weekly gun crimes update on Monday, Krasner said, as of August 14, the city has had 344 homicides compared to 336 this time last year. Between August 4 and August 10, there were 11 homicides and 33 nonfatal shootings, Krasner said. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESKrasner ended his portion of the press conference by urging people to come forward with information on violent cases. "It shouldn't have to be said, but I'm [going to] say it anyway. Please come forward," he said.

ARLINGTON, Va. - New video posted online shows the frightening scene at Ireland's Four Courts bar in Arlington, VA after a car plowed into the building igniting a fire and sending patrons running for their lives.The video was recorded by Zahid Shah around 6:45 p.m. Friday outside the pub on Wilson Boulevard.The video shows smoke pouring from the structure as a large group of people run from away from the blaze.

JO1 have pulled out of this weekend’s KCON LA due to COVID-19.Five of the J-pop group’s 11 members have tested positive for the coronavirus, the group’s agency Lapone Entertainment revealed in a statement on its website on August 15. As a result JO1 will not appear at KCON LA, the K-pop festival and convention marking its 10th anniversary in Los Angeles this weekend.The first member of JO1 to test positive for COVID-19 was Sato Keigo, who reported symptoms last Friday.

Letters inviting people for a Covid-19 winter booster jab will be landing on doorsteps this week.

Covid-19: India's active caseload currently stands at 1,17,508. India on Monday reported 14,917 fresh Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the country's active caseload to 1,17,508, according to the Union Health Ministry data.  The data also shows that 14,238 people have recovered from the coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 4,36,23,804. The recovery rate is 98.54%, while the daily and weekly positivity rate currently stands at 7.52% and 4.65% respectively.  A total of 25,50,276 Covid-19 vaccine doses were administered in last 24 hours under the nationwide drive.