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David Beckham’s Tippy-Toes is roasted on social media

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David Beckham’s Tippy-Toes is roasted on social media

David Beckham was roasted on social media after eagle-eyed fans noticed he was standing on his tippy-toes in his family’s 2021 Christmas photo.

The former soccer player, 46, was seen in an Instagram post on Sunday standing with his wife, Victoria Beckham, and their four children, Brooklyn, 22, Romeo, 19, Cruz, 16, and Harper, 10, as they gathered in front of their tree.

All three of the couple’s sons mirrored their dad in black suits, while the former Spice Girl wore a green gown and Harper looked sweet in a navy dress and a cream cardigan.

At a first glance, David and Romeo seemed to be the same height, but fans were quick to point out that the father of four was perched on his toes to level his height with his teenage son.

A close-up of David Beckham's feet to show him standing on his tippy-toes in his family's Christmas photo.
Fans surmised that the athlete was on his toes to appear level with his son Romeo.
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“Nice to see you en point David 😍 #tippytoes,” one fan joked.

3 members of BTS have tested positive for COVID-19

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3 members of BTS have tested positive for COVID-19

Three members of the K-pop superstar group BTS have been infected with the coronavirus after returning from abroad, their management agency said.

RM and Jin were diagnosed with COVID-19 on Saturday evening, the Big Hit Music agency said in a statement. It earlier said another member, Suga, tested positive for the virus on Friday.

All three took their second jabs in August, the agency said.

According to the agency, RM has exhibited no particular symptoms while Jin is showing mild symptoms including light fever and is undergoing self-treatment at home. The agency said Friday that Suga wasn’t exhibiting symptoms and was administering self-care at home in accordance with the guidelines of the health authorities.

RM had tested negative after returning from the United States earlier this month following his personal schedule there. But he was later diagnosed with the virus ahead of his scheduled release from self-quarantine, the agency said.

After returning to South Korea this month, Jin underwent PCR tests twice — upon arrival and later before his release from self-quarantine — and tested negative both times. But he had flu-like symptoms on Saturday afternoon before he took another PCR test that came back positive, the agency said. Media reports said he also had traveled to the U.S.

BTS is a seven-member boyband. The four other members are J-Hope, Jungkook, V and Jimin.

A crazed woman was arrested after she slapped a fellow passenger aboard a Delta flight

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A crazed woman was arrested after she slapped a fellow passenger aboard a Delta flight

“Put your f— mask on!” she yells, as her own mask sits below her chin.

“Sit down, Karen!” he shoots back at the woman.

“Mask up!” she shouts.

A crazed woman was arrested by the FBI after she went on an expletive-laced tirade and slapped a fellow passenger aboard a Delta flight from Tampa to Atlanta.

The unhinged woman — identified as Patricia Cornwall — was arrested by the feds after the wild incident aboard Flight 2790 on Thursday, Atlanta police said in a statement.

She was accused of causing a midair “disturbance” that led to the “injury of fellow passengers and Delta employees,” police said.

A video tweeted by ATL Uncensored shows the woman standing in the aisle cursing at a male passenger as they exchange heated words.

Patricia Cornwall was accused of causing a midair "disturbance" that led to the "injury of fellow passengers and Delta employees."
Patricia Cornwall was accused of causing a midair “disturbance” that led to the “injury of fellow passengers and Delta employees.”
According to people on the plane, Patricia Cornwell “went crazy on the airplane, punched this man in the face, spit on him, scratched him."
According to people on the plane, Patricia Cornwell “went crazy on the airplane, punched this man in the face, spit on him, scratched him.”
The flight landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 6:10 p.m., police met with airline employees at Gate A11, where passengers described the incident.
The flight landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 6:10 p.m., and passengers described the incident to police.

Someone in the clip said the woman “went crazy on the airplane, punched this man in the face, spit on him, scratched him (and) poured hot water on my leg.” 

According to TMZ, Cornwall went ballistic because the man wouldn’t mask up while eating and drinking.

When the flight landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 6:10 p.m., police met with airline employees at Gate A11, where passengers described the incident.

According to police, officers detained Patricia Cornwall and contacted the on-call FBI agent at the gate.
A police statement said that “FBI agents responded and took custody of Ms. Cornwall.”

“Based on the statements gathered and visible evidence, officers detained Ms. Cornwall and contacted the on-call FBI agent,” police said in a statement.

“The officers then relocated with Ms. Cornwall to the domestic Atlanta Police precinct where FBI agents responded and took custody of Ms. Cornwall,” it added.

Omicron is spreading rapidly, but smaller percentage of infected people

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Omicron is spreading rapidly, but smaller percentage of infected people

As the omicron variant coronavirus spreads rapidly, one positive is that a smaller percentage of infected people are winding up in the hospital with COVID-19 symptoms compared to earlier strains.

Washington, D.C.; New York City; Chicago; San Francisco and Seattle are among the cities that have seen rapid and substantial increases in the numbers of infections. There are also big surges in Miami, New Orleans and Houston.

But Dr. Robert Wachter at the University of California, San Francisco, tells NPR’s Michaeleen Doucleff that fewer hospitalizations as a percentage of those infected is likely due to two things: greater immunity among the public from vaccines and prior coronavirus infection, and that omicron might be slightly less severe than delta.

Vaccines don’t stop infections with omicron, but they do reduce the risk of hospitalization by about 70% — with a booster shot, that figure is even higher.

However, Wachter cautions: “If you’re a person who has no immunity at all, no vaccination and no prior infection or your prior infection was a year and a half ago and it was mild, you’re not out of the woods.”

“If you were in a room with about 30 or 40 [people], there’s almost a near certainty, about a 90% chance that one of them has COVID. So that’s a little scary,” he says.

Even so, the rapid spread of omicron — resulting in 10,000 cases in a single day in Chicago, for instance, and a more than five-fold increase in the last two weeks in Washington, D.C. — means a lot of infected people. Watcher estimates that in San Francisco 1 and 20 people are walking around the city with COVID and don’t even realize it. They’re totally asymptomatic. Watcher calls that “pretty shocking.”

More than 100 Japan flights were grounded due to heavy snow

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More than 100 Japan flights were grounded due to heavy snow

More than 100 domestic flights in Japan were grounded on Sunday due to heavy snow in the northern and western parts of the country, Japan’s two biggest airlines said.

ANA Holdings had halted 79 flights as of 4 p.m. (0700 GMT), affecting about 5,100 passengers, said Hiroaki Hayakawa, an operations director for the airline.

Japan Airlines Co had cancelled 49 flights as of 4 p.m. (0700 GMT), affecting 2,460 passengers, a representative with the airline’s operations division said.

Japan, which tightened border controls to counter the threat from Omicron, has reported only about a dozen cases of community spread of the new variant and 231 total Omicron infections, including overseas arrivals, according to the health ministry.

Worldwide, thousands of flights have been cancelled over the Christmas weekend because of the rapid spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant.

China Starts to Disinfect Xian After Delta Outbreak

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China Starts to Disinfect Xian After Delta Outbreak

According to Bloomberg, the western Chinese city of Xi’an has begun widespread disinfection measures since late Sunday to counter a jump in Covid infections that forced the lockdown of 13 million residents.

Authorities locked down Xi’an last week on concerns that the virus had been spreading under the radar with many of the transmission routes unknown. 

Even so, local media quoted Zhang Boli, a senior medical adviser to the Chinese government on Covid, as saying it is still possible to get the outbreak under control by the end of January, before the Olympics. 

Authorities are spraying disinfectants across the city and asking residents to close windows and avoid touching architectural surfaces and vegetation on streets. Private cars are not allowed on roads. The move came as daily infections spike to around 150 on Sunday and Monday, as health authorities seek to uncover more cases with a fourth round of mass testing.

The 2022 Winter Olympics are set to kick off in Beijing Feb. 4. China on Monday reported a total of 162 domestic Covid infections, with 150 of those from Xi’an, the highest daily caseload since Jan. 22. A surge of that scale is rarely seen in China, which is the only major country in the world still aggressively trying to eliminate the virus via closed borders and stringent domestic curbs under what’s called a Zero Covid strategy. 

The Xi’an outbreak, which has seen more than 600 cases in less than three weeks and is being blamed on the delta variant, underscores the difficulty China faces in returning domestic infections to nil as the virus mutates to forms more capable of escaping through stringent containment measures. 

The nation has also found a handful of omicron infections among travelers from other countries but hasn’t seen the even more infectious and immunity-evading variant spreading into the community.

Dams in Brazil burst by heavy rains, swamping already swollen local rivers

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Dams in Brazil burst by heavy rains, swamping already swollen local rivers

Two dams gave way in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia after weeks of heavy rains, swamping already swollen local rivers as flooding hit towns across the region, authorities said on Sunday.

The Igua dam, on the Verruga river near the city of Vitoria da Conquista in southern Bahia, collapsed on Saturday night, forcing authorities to evacuate residents, mainly in the town of Itambe.

A second dam gave way to rising water levels in Jussiape, 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the north, on Sunday morning, bringing more alerts for residents to move to safer ground.

There were no reports of deaths or injuries caused by the dam failures, though bridges and roads were damaged.

Further towards the coast in Itabuna, a city of 200,000 inhabitants, fire brigade teams rescued residents trapped in their homes in the downtown area that was under water, Reuters reporters said.

Bahia Governor Rui Castro said at least 400,000 people have been impacted by the heavy rains and thousands evacuated from some 67 towns facing emergency situations due to floods caused by heavy rainfall for almost two months.

“Thousands of people have had to leave their homes because the water rose one or two meters, even three meters in some places,” he told reporters on Saturday.

The rains have caused 18 deaths in Bahia since the beginning of November, including a 60-year-old ferry owner who drowned on the swollen Rio das Contas river, civil defense officials said.

In the state capital of Salvador, weather officials said December rainfall has been six times greater than the average.

[Christmas Special] With this music in the store – 11 million views including Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber

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[Christmas Special] With this music in the store – 11 million views including Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber

Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber, and Aliana Grande known as Little Mariah Carey, A Christmas medley sung by three of America’s top stars. 1 hour and 21 minutes. It was watched by 11 million people.

When you turn this on ay your own store, fast and slow songs are evenly mixed, you are ready to welcome customers!

Above all, it is the most American style, so it has a wide sympathy!

O Holy Night (#13), sang in R&B style, literally bursts with exclamations! Including ‘Little Drum Boy (#16)’, which was arranged as a collage with all kinds of idiots, 1 hour and 21 minutes just passed.

Everyone wants to live happily every day like this, right?

Have a nice day today

<Eugene Lee, Orchestra Conductor/Composer>

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S.Korea granted a pardon to former President Park Geun-hye

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S.Korea granted a pardon to former President Park Geun-hye

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in granted a pardon to former President Park Geun-hye, who is in prison after being convicted of corruption, the justice ministry said on Friday, amid a tight presidential race.

Park, 69, became South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office when the Constitutional Court upheld a parliament vote in 2017 to impeach her over a scandal that also landed the heads of two conglomerates, including Samsung Electronics, in jail.

She was brought down after being found guilty of colluding with a confidante to receive tens of billions of won from major conglomerates to help her family and fund nonprofit foundations she owned.

In January, South Korea’s top court upheld a 20-year prison sentence for Park on the graft charges that finalized her downfall, bringing an end to the legal process and for the first time raising the possibility of a pardon.

But Park’s predecessor Lee Myung-bak, who is also imprisoned on corruption charges, was not pardoned.

The decision came as many supporters and politicians of the conservative main opposition People Power party have been calling for Park’s pardon ahead of the March presidential election.

The flag bearer of Moon’s ruling Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, and People Power’s candidate Yoon Suk-yeol are seen neck and neck in recent polls.

Omicron driving huge demand for COVID tests ahead of the holidays

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Omicron driving huge demand for COVID tests ahead of the holidays

Holiday travel, family gatherings and the rapid surge of new coronavirus cases triggered by the omicron variant, are driving huge demand for COVID-19 tests, leaving people scrambling as they prepare to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s.

The result so far has been around-the-block lines at testing sites and shortages of at-home tests at drug stores. And many Americans are facing the possibility that they’ll have to scrap their plans altogether, as the number of testing opportunities dwindles ahead of the holidays.

National, state and local leaders are trying to respond to the current crush of demand, but aid may come too late.

Cars line up at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Miami’s Tropical Park on Wednesday.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The Biden administration, which has come under pressure for not increasing widespread availability of at-home tests, on Tuesday rolled out a plan to set up federal testing across the country. President Biden also said the government would buy a half-billion at-home COVID test kits and mail them to people who want them. But deliveries won’t start until January.

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