Research finds fitness trackers increase physical activity

Read More People who use fitness trackers are more active than those who don’t, averaging 2 000 more steps a day.  An increase in activity can potentially lower the risk of chronic disease like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and certain types of cancer. It also improves quality of life and reduces the risk of premature death. […]

Poor families skipping meals and unable to afford heating, charity says

Read More Hard-up families are skipping meals, wearing coats indoors to stay warm, and living in the dark because they can’t afford to switch on the lights, according to a leading children’s charity. Action for Children said in one case a boy it worked with had been off school with sore feet caused by chilblains. […]

Jordan Peterson announces he is ‘departing’ from Twitter

Post Content NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Canadian psychologist and bestselling author Jordan B. Peterson announced that he is “departing” from Twitter after finding an “endless flood of vicious insult” on the platform. “I recently stopped accessing Twitter for three weeks as an experiment,” Peterson began in a thread on Twitter. “I […]

‘I look at my government differently’: losses in Ukraine test Russians’ faith

Read More The satellite and drone imagery from above Bilohorivka tells a tale of folly and destruction. Dozens of Russian tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and trucks lay destroyed, some sinking into the waters of the Donets River by a broken pontoon bridge, pointing to the latest disaster in Russia’s three-month war in Ukraine. The toll […]

Russia-Ukraine war: bloodiest battle ends as Ukrainian fighters evacuated from Mariupol steel plant – live

Read More A bit more from the ISW assessment, which says there is growing friction between Russian occupation administrations and pro-Russian collaborators in occupied areas of Ukraine, while inside Russia military bloggers are increasingly in-line with western assessments of Russian military failures. Russian forces in Zaporizhia, are having “serious conflicts” with collaborators due to “interpersonal […]

Amid efforts to steady coalition, Israel’s Nation State Law sharpens tensions

Read More When he was asked during a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beiteinu party on Monday why he is behaving “as if there’s the smell of elections in the air,” Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman replied, “Those who have trouble smelling should see the ear, nose and throat doctor.” Lieberman’s defensive retort aside, many of […]

Safety advisor quits as thousands expected at Meron where 45 died last year

Read More The safety consultant to the agency running this week’s annual Lag Ba’omer festivities at Mount Meron resigned three weeks ago, as his warnings that the site wasn’t prepared to handle the number of people expected on Wednesday and Thursday were ignored. Sources in both the police and government ministries said the consultant, Kfir […]

Earthquake of Magnitude 6.1 Strikes Sumatra, Indonesia: EMSC

Read More A screenshot from a seismic map shows the location of an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 striking southwest of Sumatra, in Indonesia, on May 16, 2022. (USGS/Screenshot via The Epoch Times) An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck southwest of Sumatra in Indonesia in the wee hours of Tuesday, European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake […]