Tick this item off your summer must-buy list. Americans are smack dab in the throes of an apocalyptic influx of disease-harboring ticks, so checking for the bloodsuckers is crucial. Now, an innovative product could eliminate weeks of worrying if you’re diagnosed with Lyme disease — and it’s the first of its kind. With tick-related emergency room visits hitting a record high this year, Lyme disease remains the most common tick-borne disease in the US, with about 476,000 Americans treated each year. But blood tests can miss Lyme disease early in an infection because it can take several weeks for the…

Rosie O’Donnell wasn’t banking on so much sex when she checked into the city for a cameo on And Just Like That. The actress and comedian, 64, appeared as a nun who ends up losing her virginity to Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda Hobbes in the season 3 premiere of the Sex and the City spinoff. But according to O’Donnell, filming an intimate postcoital moment in bed together was “horrifying.” “I was so nervous!” O’Donnell shared on the “Good Hang With Amy Poehler” podcast on Tuesday, August 11. “First of all, I love her. I love her and have so much respect…

Not everyone can live in Los Angeles or San Francisco — someone’s got to hold it down in Fresno. A recent report from real estate platform Houzeo breaks down the 10 most affordable places to live in the Golden State. Each city was given an overall affordability score out of ten, based on three main factors: median home value, median house rent and cost of living compared to the state average. The list was dominated by Central Valley cities, with the exception of one coastal city outlier. 10. Clovis The Central Valley city received an affordability score of 6.7, with…

August 12, 2026 — 7:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWell done, Australia. We managed to pull together on a wintry Tuesday night to declare, in the national census, our sexual identities and whether we’re practising or nominal Jedis. Now that we’ve proven our ability to answer mildly invasive questions under bureaucratic pressure, it seems logical to expand the project into tracking our emotional and social intelligence. An adults-only NAPLAN, anyone?It makes sense – we’re so busy worrying about the next generation’s declining literacy and numeracy levels, we’ve forgotten to…

Julie Andrews has explained why she won’t be reprising her role as Queen Clarrisse Renaldi in the forthcoming Princess Diaries 3. “I think the story is slightly different, and I’m not quite sure how they’re dealing with that. But it’s too late for me to do it. I think the story has to continue in Princess Mia [played by Anne Hathaway]. It’s her story. It’s not really mine,” the Sound of Music star, 90, told Today.com in an article published on Tuesday, August 11. Andrews’ comments come after Hathaway, 43, recently shared an update on the film’s production two years…

Are they sailing the seven fees? Mexico-bound cruise passengers better start saving dough, as they’ll soon have to spend twice as much to visit our Southern neighbor’s most popular sites. “Consumers keep getting hit with more and more taxes and fees for everything related to travel,” Clint Henderson, a managing editor of the travel site The Points Guy, told Fox News Digital. One of the first phases, debuted on August 1 as part of Mexico’s multi-phased tax plan, entailed hiking the entrance fee from $5 to $10 per person for foreign cruise passengers disembarking at popular cruise hubs. These hotspots include…

Published on 12/08/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2•Updated 12:13 The European Union will provide €2.1 million to Colombia to support its most affected areas following a deadly earthquake that tore through the South American country on Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in an online statement. “As search and rescue operations continue, the EU is supporting Colombia wherever possible,” she said in the statement posted on Tuesday. The funding will provide health, water, sanitation and hygiene material, as well as shelter, food, protection and cash assistance. The president of the EU executive added that Colombia has activated the bloc’s…

August 12, 2026 — 8:12pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe $6.8 trillion global wellness industry knows how to capitalise on a moment, and right now, it’s attuned to the fact that people are feeling increasingly stressed and burnt out.It’s why I wasn’t surprised when a video came across my feed for a new wellness clinic in Brisbane offering “Australia’s first high-tech nervous system reset studio”.Like stress and burnout, nervous system dysregulation is a hot topic, and in the information age, once a trend seeps into the collective consciousness, you…

The Golden Bachelorette winner Chock Chapple has revealed that he underwent surgery to remove his prostate due to a recent cancer scare. “Elevated PSA. Biopsy, MRI, another biopsy. Turned aggressive. Last Wednesday I had my prostate removed,” Chapple, 62, who is engaged to Joan Vassos, captioned a Tuesday, August 11, Instagram video that was filmed alongside Vassos, 63, at his Wichita, Kansas, home. (PSA refers to prostate-specific antigen, described by the National Cancer Institute as a protein in the blood that is tested to ensure a safe level.) “Lost my mother to cancer. I know what’s at stake. My son…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Paul Child drove past a stranger twice near railroad tracks outside his Washington home, then watched smoke rise about 10 minutes after the man crouched in nearby bushes – setting off a chain of events that helped police identify an accused wildfire arsonist.Newly obtained bodycam footage shows officers evacuating Child’s family and taking him, his grandson and the boy’s friend to a field showup after detaining a man who matched their description.While Child and the other witnesses waited near the showup scene, bodycam footage captured an officer saying the detained man had…

Almost half of New Yorkers oppose the new lefty Democratic Socialists of America movement, according to a newly released poll. Only 30% of likely Empire State voters told Siena University they take a favorable view of the DSA, while 47% view them unfavorably and another 23% were unsure. Most of the DSA’s popularity is centered in New York City — with 49% of Big Apple respondents in favor of the political organization, which has surged in notoriety since the rise of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Support for the DSA, however, drops off a steep cliff at the Nassau and Westchester county…

Americans are looking to squeeze in one last vacation before summer ends, with many saying they still haven’t taken a trip this season, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 Americans, conducted by Talker Research on behalf of CheapCaribbean Vacations, found nearly one in four (23%) don’t feel they’ve made the most of their summer. It also found that 61% haven’t taken a vacation so far this summer, while 59% don’t feel they’ve had enough vacation time, showing many are still hoping to make this summer a memorable one before it slips away. When asked to describe the season,…

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. Robert Schuman and the founding fathers of the European Community understood: those who cooperate economically do not wage war against one another. From this conviction emerged our continent’s most successful idea of peace and freedom. The single market was therefore never an end in itself; it was a promise of opportunity, competition and economic strength. ‘Our mother is Dutch. Our father was German’ For me, this isn’t a historical footnote. Our mother is Dutch. Our father was…

With great travel planning power comes great responsibility, but not always a vote of thanks… Despite taking on the arduous role of mapping out spreadsheets, pinpointing a date that suits everyone’s calendar and creating a detailed itinerary, travel planners rarely get any credit for their efforts. Now, new research from booking platform Klook, which surveyed 2,725 travellers across 10 countries, has found that travel planning ranks among the least thanked tasks people do for others. The survey also found that for eight in 10 respondents, travel planning can take upwards of over 10 hours to organise a single trip. And…

August 12, 2026 — 7:45pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe alleged sergeant-at-arms of an outlaw motorcycle gang accused of being part of a trio who threatened a man with a gun has a job working on North East Link, a court has heard.Dylan Mallia, 28, faced the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday charged with affray after a confrontation at a house in Harkness.The Finks are a notorious outlaw motorcycle gang.LUIS ENRIQUE ASCUIHe applied for bail, leading to his partner testifying in court that he was employed as a machine…