Covid: The ‘unusual' sign in your mouth as the UK sees ‘extremely worrying' rise in cases

FILE - A view of the entrance of the ice-cream shop inside the Ben & Jerry's factory in Be'er Tuvia in southern Israel, on July 21, 2021. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)A federal judge on Monday rejected a request by Ben & Jerry’s to block a plan by its corporate parent to allow its products to be sold in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank against the wishes of the Vermont ice cream maker's independent board of directors.U.S.

ATLANTA - Atlanta police say they have taken a woman into custody believed to be the suspect in a series of shootings in Midtown which killed two and injured a third person.The shootings happened between 1:45 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. at 1280 W.

BENSALEM, Pa. - Authorities in Bucks County are urging drivers not to leave their keys inside unlocked parked car following a series of overnight thefts that investigators believe could be related. The Bensalem Police Department said the string of thefts happened during the early morning hours of Aug. 17, including two thefts that happened 20 minutes apart. Officers were called to East Coast Cycle on Bristol Pike around 1:30 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA - As students prepare to head back to the classrooms, parents and educators worry about school safety amid Philadelphia's worsening gun violence crisis. Mayor Jim Kenney joined school district leaders on Monday for an update on back-to-school safety and programs for the 2022-2023 academic year. Chief of School Safety Kevin Bethel said the district's plan will rely on a mix of school security officers, city police and parents to keep students safe. Philadelphia's public school system is one of the largest in the country, responsible for approximately 114,000 students. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESThe district reported 47 public and charter school students were killed, mostly from gun violence. Bethel said the district will support "safe corridors" to and from eight schools in the city's most troubled neighborhoods, including Bartram High School where a student was slain last winter.Part of the safety plan includes using police dogs to sniff-out guns hidden outside of school building. The district will not randomly check for weapons in middle and some elementary schools, but staff will be asked to stay alert. "Our parents, adults engaged with these young people are checking their bags making sure children are not taking their guns from their safes or guns they should not have and bringing them to schools," Bethel said. A 7-year-old boy became the victim of a shooting as police say he sat playing video games Saturday night.According to the latest data from the Philadelphia Police Department, there have been 350 homicides in the city this year.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia woman is fighting for her life after police say she was struck by a fallen tree branch while in her backyard on Monday. The 49-year-old woman was taken from her home on the 6600 block of Lincoln Drive to Albert Einstein Medical Center just after 11 a.m.Police did not disclose what injuries the woman sustained from being hit with the branch. It's unknown what caused the branch to fall. 

Labrador retrievers at the head of the pack, which may surprise no one. The Labrador retriever has held the top spot for dog breeds in people’s hearts for the past 31 years, according to the American Kennel Club. Labradors and Chihuahuas proved to be the most popular breeds adopted, coming on top in almost every state, according to data collected by the company Top Data. Take a look to see if your dog’s name and/or breed made it on Trupanion’s lists for 2022. RELATED: Labs still reign as America's most popular dog breed; newcomer ranks top 5This story was reported from Los Angeles. 

A FedEx employee loads a cart with packages for deliveries August 5, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) As FedEx Ground delivery drivers pay the price for soaring inflation and high diesel fuel prices, FedEx’s largest contractor sounded the alarm that at least one-third of the route system is on the brink of collapse."Really what I've been advocating and really making the public aware of is that we're in enormous financial distress," Route Consultant founder and president Spencer Patton told FOX Business’ Dagen McDowell on "Mornings with Maria" Friday."We've seen our fuel prices double in a year.

Riley Gracely, 8, found a fossilized shark tooth that's believed to be from the long-extinct angustidens, a prehistoric megatooth shark species. He found the tooth during a vacation trip in August 2022.

As the nation braces for another possible spike in COVID-19 activity, Pfizer and BioNTech today announced that they have submitted an application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use of its bivalent (two-strain) booster that targets the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The stepfather of an 11-year-old boy who was rescued by an attentive Orlando restaurant manager using a note after noticing his bruises was sentenced to life in prison on Friday. In June, a six-person jury convicted Timothy Wilson, 36 on all 10 counts of false imprisonment, child abuse, and child neglect.Judge Wayne C. Wooten called the abuse Wilson inflicted on the boy "grade A horrible.""I don't ever remember any case of such prolonged, malicious, extensive and ongoing abuse as what was presented in this case," Wooten said.The now-viral rescue happened at Mrs.

FILE-A wrangler herds bulls inside a pen. (Photo credit JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images) JERUSALEM - A terrifying scene occurred when a runaway bull managed to get inside an Israeli bank causing fear for several men who encountered the large animal.One video shared on Twitter captured the incident Monday morning in Lod, Israel, near Tel Aviv.

File photo of a police lights atop a patrol vehicle An Alabama town wanted its police officers fired over supposedly racist text messages, but couldn’t proceed with the terminations due to a legal issue. So in a loophole, the city council voted to disband the entire department instead. Located in central Alabama, the city of Vincent has a population of just under 2,000 people.

EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa will be the focus of a new ITVBe series titled Celebrity Health Stories.The actress turned I'm A Celebrity winner episode is dedicated to her painful periods and the show aims to highlight the health journeys that different celebrities have faced.The series will also follow Olympic boxer Nicola Adams as she discusses IVF, S Club 7’s Hannah Spearitt’s experience with breast implants and The Real Housewives of Cheshire’s Tanya Bardsley’s ADHD journey.READ MORE: Jacqueline Jossa parades curves in plunging red swimsuit as she shows off toned legsThe official Intertalent Group Instagram profile uploaded a headshot of Jacqueline wearing a white shirt against a red backdrop.They captioned the post: “Jacqueline Jossa’s new ITV show, Me and Periods. The new docuseries comes to ITVBe later this year.

Nonhospitalized, high-risk, vaccinated COVID-19 patients who received nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (NMV-r, or Paxlovid) saw a 45% drop in their relative risk of emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalization, and death by 30 days, suggests a study published late last week in Clinical Infectious Diseases.A team led by Beth Israel Lahey Health researchers in Massachusetts ret

found in a submerged car in a reservoir is "more than likely" missing Truckee teen Kiely Rodni, the Nevada County sheriff said Monday morning. "We believe it's her," Sheriff Shannon Moon said about the somber discovery made by a group of volunteer divers that searched for the 16-year-old in the Prosser Creek Reservoir near Truckee on Sunday. Kiely was last seen at a large party on August 6 at a nearby campground.A volunteer team called Adventures with Purpose announced they had found Kiely's missing Honda CRV with a person inside the vehicle. An autopsy will be conducted Tuesday to determine the cause of death.

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.

Mental health clinicians 'dismissed' a patient making threats to take his own life moments before he 'rolled' into the road and was hit by a taxi, an inquest has heard.

Shirley Ballas, 61, shared an insight into her health with her 235,000 Instagram followers, as she revealed she is currently isolating with Covid.The Strictly Come Dancing judge previously went through a “scary” time when she caught the virus last year, as it left her struggling to “remember her own name”.Shirley took to Instagram today wearing a mask as she shared how her second experience of Covid was going.The Strictly star sounded tired when updating her followers, as her voice was coarse and she didn’t have her usual energetic spark. “So day three of my Covid and so cleaning the silver and staying busy because I can’t sit,” she told her fans.“Anyway, thank you for all your well-wishes. Feeling a little bit better today.“Hopefully it will clear in a couple of days.

FILE - A woman holds an iPhone on Dec. 8, 2021, in Paris, France.

PHILADELPHIA - The 2022 Liberty Medal will be awarded this fall to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.The National Constitution Center announced Monday that Zelenskyy will be honored in a ceremony in October for what it called "his heroic defense of liberty in the face of Russian tyranny.""President Zelenskyy has bravely led the Ukrainian people in their defense of freedom against Russian tyranny, and his courage has inspired people around the world to defend liberal democracy and the rule of law," center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen said in a statement.Zelenskyy, who has served as the nation's president since May 2019, has also been the recipient of awards such as the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award and the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award as well as honors from the governments of the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia, the center said.The Liberty Medal, established in 1988 to mark the U.S.

WASHINGTON - Many kids have dreams of becoming a pilot – but how about achieving your dream at age 17!Christopher Ballinger is among the youngest Black pilots in the country thanks to an Air Force JROTC flight Academy Program.  Ballinger said he’s licensed to fly any single engine land plane. He says it is the first step in becoming a pilot.

Signage at a Ford dealership in Colma, California, US, on Friday, July 22, 2022. Ford Motor Co. is expected to release earnings figures on July 27.

BRIGANTINE, N.J. - A city littered with hateful messages has sparked an investigation into who is responsible for the shocking discovery.Police say bags of anti-Semitic flyers were thrown onto several properties throughout Brigantine late Sunday night into early Monday morning.No threats were found on the flyers, and police say no specific houses or businesses appear to be targeted."Consistent with anti-Semitic flyers that news outlets have reported as having been distributed in similar manners throughout the United States in recent weeks," said the Brigantine Police Department.MORE HEADLINES:Police are investigating the flyers as a "bias incident."Anyone with information is asked to call the department at 609-266-7414. 

Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) – and alignment due to the planet’s rotation. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.

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.

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WASHINGTON - Dr. Anthony Fauci,the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than five decades of service.Fauci, who serves as President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation.

sweeping inflation. In the 50 largest metro areas, median rent rose an astounding 19.3% from December 2020 to December 2021, according to a Realtor.com analysis of properties with two or fewer bedrooms. Rents are still at an all-time high in the U.S. but data shows asking rent prices have been consistently slowing for the past several weeks. According to Redfin, the average cost of rent during July 2022 in the U.S.

For all the talk in Western capitals of reducing reliance on Chinese factories, China has in the past two years consolidated its position as the world’s dominant supplier of manufactured goods.

DALLAS - A FOX Weather crew covering the flash flooding in Dallas Monday morning snapped into action to save a driver trapped in her car.Just before 7 a.m., Stephanie Carroll's car got stuck in the water near I-35 and Hi Line Drive.FOX Weather reporter Robert Ray was getting ready for a live report, when he saw what was happening.MORE: Flash Flooding in North Texas leaves some drivers stranded"She literally, as I was standing here setting up for the shot, guys, pulled in and didn't realize it," Ray said. "The next thing you know, her car was floating.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A dog was blinded after his owner says he ingested a dose of oxycodone while the two were out on a walk last week. Lori Burns was out with her pup, Chance the Rapper (the dog) on a walk along Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica last Sunday, when she says suddenly Chance was breathing heavily and eventually collapsed. Burns took Chance to the emergency vet where she was told he had ingested oxycodone and that he was now blind.She says the vet told her that incidents like this are more common than people may think, but they typically happen when a dog gets into a prescription cabinet, not just randomly on the sidewalk.

Police lights are pictured in an undated file image. MULBERRY, Ark. - Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been suspended and a state police investigation was launched after a video posted on social media showed a suspect being held down on the ground and beaten by police.Arkansas State Police said Sunday night that it would investigate the use of force by the officers earlier in the day outside a convenience store in Mulberry, about 140 miles (220 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock.Two Crawford County sheriff's deputies and one Mulberry police officer were suspended Sunday, city and county authorities said.

Mumbai reported 592 Covid-19 cases, which is 27.6 per cent lower than the addition to the tally a day earlier, a civic official said.  It took the tally in the metropolis to 11,38,941, while the toll stood unchanged at 19,673, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official added.  On Sunday, the city witnessed 818 cases, which is 226 more than the figures for the day, and one death, he pointed out. It is also the third consecutive day when the number of cases detected was less than 1,000, he said.  Of the new cases, only 21 patients were symptomatic, the official said.

CM Kejriwal also made statements on the recent CBI raids and consequent FIR against his deputy Manish Sisodia and 14 others in relation to the Delhi Excise Policy case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had on 19 August conducted raids at 31 locations across seven states and Union Territories in regard to the Delhi Excise Policy case. The raid location also included the Delhi residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.

Gemma Collins has shared an update on her health after she was so unwell, that she almost collapsed.The television star who found fame on The Only Way Is Essex has revealed she was left "really, really unwell" and needed medical assistance after not feeling like herself.Gemma, 41, has been suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome, an underactive thyroid and a mystery illness which doctors claimed medicine would not be able to help.READ MORE: Gemma Collins in glamorous hair transformation – but fans prefer her old lookIn a new interview, the Celebrity Big Brother star said she has been working "a lot" while battling her mystery illness which she believes was a virus.Speaking about her health, Gemma told New magazine: "I have been so ill I cannot tell you, my workload has been a lot, but I've had a virus."I've been really, really, really unwell.

TRUCKEE, Calif. - A team of volunteer divers claimed on Sunday that they have found the body of Kiely Rodni near where the missing 16-year-old was last seen in Truckee two weeks ago. The discovery has not been confirmed by the Placer County Sheriff's Office, the law enforcement agency that has led the official search for Kiely. However, the sheriff's office, FBI and other agencies were investigating, according to a statement Sunday night. "The identity of the decedent has not been confirmed," the Placer County sheriff's office said on Sunday. "This is a developing situation."Updates will be given Monday morning by both the volunteers and the sheriff. The dive team Adventures with Purpose, however, did not express any doubt in its announcement."WE JUST FOUND KIELY RODNI," Adventures with Purpose said on its Facebook account Sunday.Kiely was found in her submerged car in Prosser Lake, the post said. "Car is upside down in only 14' of water.

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FA tip jar at a coffee shop is shown in a file image. (Photo by Lewis Geyer/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images) Americans are continuing to dole out big tips at restaurants even as the threat of high inflation hangs over the economy. According to aggregated restaurant sales data from software provider Toast's second-quarter Restaurant Trends report, the average same-store tip amount is up nearly 10% compared with last year, despite increases in the price of goods and services.In the second quarter, quick-service restaurants saw an average tip of 16.9% and full-service restaurants saw an average tip of 19.6%.

PHILADELPHIA - A bicyclist is fighting for their life after police say they were struck by a vehicle that kept driving early Monday morning.Two people were riding their bikes near Bustleton and Cottman Avenues around 1 a.m. when one was reportedly hit by a vehicle.

CHERRY HILL, N.J. - A horror movie convention promoter says it is assisting authorities following charges against actor Gary Busey involving alleged sexual offenses at an event in New Jersey earlier this month.Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment following alleged actions Aug. 12-14 at the Monster Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, police said Saturday.Monster-Mania Convention said in a Facebook post that after attendees complained, an unspecified "celebrity guest was removed from the convention and instructed not to return.""Monster-Mania also encouraged the attendees to contact the police to file a report," the company said, adding that behavior that compromised the safety and well-being of attendees would not be tolerated.

MAD Max actor Vincent "Nightrider" Gil has died aged 83 after pals revealed he had been "frail for some time". The legendary Aussie actor played Crawford Montizano - also known as Nightrider - in the 1979 Mad Max film.

Emma McVey, the wife of former Geordie Shore star Gaz Beadle, has been rushed to hospital amid "unpredictable health issues". Emma, 29, took to Instagram to reveal the news, sharing a picture of herself in a hospital gown and giving a thumbs up as she looks off into the distance. Alongside the snap, she explained about her hospital dash and health issues, saying her "life has become turbulent and unpredictable".The mother of two wrote: "In the space of a week I’ve had gas and air, cameras inside me, called in for a chest X-ray whilst I’m sat having lunch, bloods and to start infusions, injections and one other thing that I can’t even remember because my head is constantly a shed.

Prime Minister will inaugurate Amrita Hospital, thereafter, he will will travel to Mohali to inaugurate Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at Mullanpur, New Chandigarh, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar District in the afternoon. Prime Minister will inaugurate Amrita Hospital at Faridabad at 11 am with which the availability of modern medical infrastructure in the National Capital Region (NCR) will get a boost. The hospital will be managed by Mata Amritanandamayi Math.