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St George’s Day 2026: When is St George’s Day 2026, flag laws and is it a bank holiday | UK | News

St George’s Day 2026: When is St George’s Day 2026, flag laws and is it a bank holiday | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

St George’s Day will be celebrated again this week (Image: Getty) St George’s Day is back this Thursday for households in England to come together and celebrate. The annual day sees events held across England every year as English men and women honour the patron saint of England on the anniversary of his death in 303 AD. While it probably doesn’t get as much attention as St Patrick’s Day over in Ireland, St David’s Day in Wales or St Andrew’s Day in Scotland, each year services are held in churches for St George’s Day, and events are usually held in Trafalgar Square. These are the St George’s day events, rules and key dates as well as the call for a bank holiday. Read more: St George’s Cross flagpole laws for St George’s Day with ‘size limit’ warning Read more: St George’s Day England flag warning on Thursday with £250 a day charge When is St George’s Day 2026? St George’s Day will be held on April 23, 2026. However, the date is not always set …

Lebanese man removes Israeli flag from castle in southern Lebanon | Newsfeed

Lebanese man removes Israeli flag from castle in southern Lebanon | Newsfeed

Published by Sam Flores

NewsFeed A Lebanese man who returned to his village in southern Lebanon after the temporary ceasefire was announced removes the Israeli flag from Beaufort Castle (Qalaat al-Shaqif). The castle which dates back to the 12th century is in the Nabatiyeh Governorate. Published On 18 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

My Best Friend Conned Me, And I Missed The One Red Flag That Didn’t Look Like One

My Best Friend Conned Me, And I Missed The One Red Flag That Didn’t Look Like One

Published by Jenni Sidey

Adult friendship is challenging, and recently I’ve shrunk my circle, as many of us have since the pandemic. We’ve started to become more aware of where we want to spend our energy. We want people in our friendship group who we can really rely on and trust. But it’s often easier said than done. I’ve had many friends who initially seemed great. I connected with them on a deep level, enjoyed their company, and believed we had each other’s backs. Still, many of my strongest friendships ended up turning into the worst ones. Janna was the first of these types of friends: she was sweet, kind, affectionate, and made everyone around her feel fantastic. She was also very troubled, always a victim of some random misfortune, and in the end, she manipulated many people out of resources, loyalty, and time, including me. I seemed to fall for the same tricks over and over again. When I read the research on the dark triad, I started to see what I’d fallen for. When you know about this red flag, …

Trump Administration Agrees to Return Rainbow Pride Flag to New York’s Stonewall Monument

Trump Administration Agrees to Return Rainbow Pride Flag to New York’s Stonewall Monument

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will resume flying a rainbow Pride flag on a federal flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, reversing course two months after removing the banner from the first national monument commemorating LGBTQ+ history. The government revealed the decision in court papers as it agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by advocacy and historic preservation groups who had sought to block the Feb. 9 removal. A judge approved the deal. The Interior Department and National Park Service “have confirmed their intention to maintain a Pride flag at Stonewall,” lawyers for the government and the groups wrote in a joint court filing. The flag — one of several Pride banners at the 7.7-acre (3.1-hectare) park — won’t be removed, except for “maintenance or other practical purposes,” the filing said. Under the agreement, within a week, the park service will hang three flags on its flagpole at the monument. The Pride flag will be positioned below the U.S. flag, in accordance with U.S. flag code, …

Malaysia’s work-from-home policy: Experts flag minimal fuel savings, businesses wary of economic fallout

Malaysia’s work-from-home policy: Experts flag minimal fuel savings, businesses wary of economic fallout

Published by Sam Flores

Two educators excluded from the WFH policy were neutral about it, but one – a high school teacher in Terengganu – pointed out that the education ministry should put more effort into online learning. The high school teacher said he commutes roughly 140km every day from his home to his school in rural Terengganu. “Most of the teachers here travel roughly 50km to 60km one way,” the 28-year-old said. The WFH policy should be more flexible and the private sector should be involved if the government is serious about saving fuel, he added. “Surely the ministries have figured out a way to make sure that learning can happen, even though it is conducted online,” he said. “We should be doing everything that we absolutely can to preserve our oil.” The other educator, a senior lecturer in her 40s at a public university in southern Malaysia, agreed. The education/higher education, health and home ministries are four ministries “commanding the highest percentage of civil service staff, yet we are excluded from the WFH arrangements”, she noted. “It …

Language Changes: Normal Ageing Or A Dementia Red Flag?

Language Changes: Normal Ageing Or A Dementia Red Flag?

Published by Sam Flores

Comment provided by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Adolfo M García, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Centre, Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, and Associate Researcher at Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He is also the creator of the speech testing app TELL. Sometimes, dementia changes how people speak. Because it can affect the part of the brain responsible for language, it may mean those with the condition struggle to finish a sentence, replace an intended word with another one, or jumble up their words. But writing in Nature recently, cognitive neuroscientist Dr Adolfo M García said that while some language changes are normal in “healthy” ageing, others might signal dementia risk before it is clinically recognised. Speaking to HuffPost UK, he said that Alzheimer-specific changes “may begin several years before core dementia symptoms appear.” How can you tell “normal” age-related language changes from dementia-related ones? Noticing changes to your speech as you age doesn’t necessarily mean something is wrong. “Compared with younger adults, healthy older adults may speak more slowly, take longer to find …

Liverpool refuse to wave white flag against, but don’t bet on another famous comeback

Liverpool refuse to wave white flag against, but don’t bet on another famous comeback

Published by Sam Flores

Good evening and welcome to live coverage of the Champions League quarter-final, first leg match between the champions, Paris Saint-Germain, and Liverpool at Parc des Princes. Thirteen months ago this was the pick of the round of 16 ties and comprised two terrific games, Liverpool’s 1-0 victory in the Eternal City coming by virtue of Harvey Elliott’s late goal, a minute after coming on as a substitute, and a virtuoso act in goal by Alisson. A week later Ousmane Dembélé would level the tie at Anfield in one of the finest European matches this author has ever seen before PSG and Gigi Donnarumma saw off the hosts in the shoot-out, the giant octopus of a goalkeeper making magnificent saves from Darwin Núñez and Curtis Jones, both of which were respectable efforts. Liverpool would go on to win the Premier League, PSG their 13th Ligue 1 and maiden Champions League and although tonight’s home side decided to get rid of Donnarumma which has demonstrably weakened them, the visitors’s starting XI is in far worse shape a …

France to target Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ with tougher penalties for ships sailing under false flag

France to target Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ with tougher penalties for ships sailing under false flag

Published by Sam Flores

France is to double penalties for ships that fail to fly a flag or refuse to comply, a draft law showed Wednesday, in what an informed source said was a bid to strengthen measures against Russia’s “shadow fleet”. The move comes as France has, since September, boarded three ships suspected of being part of the fleet transporting Russian oil in violation of Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. Vessels in the “shadow fleet” frequently change the flags they fly, a practice known as flag-hopping, and sometimes sail under invalid flags in an attempt to escape detection and tracking. France will now punish those who fail to fly the correct flag or refuse to comply with orders to stop the ship with up to two years in prison and a fine of €300,000 ($351,000), according to a draft update to France’s military planning law seen by AFP on Wednesday. That would double the current penalties in place, with sanctions applying to any person – such as the owner, operator, or legally responsible individual – who exercises “power of …

Gut Changes Could Flag Dementia Years Before Diagnosis

Gut Changes Could Flag Dementia Years Before Diagnosis

Published by Sam Flores

Lots of research suggests that healthy hearts lower our risk of dementia. But it seems gut changes might matter, too. Dr David Vauzour, lead researcher of the paper published in Gut Microbes, said: “Even in people who had only just begun noticing mild memory changes, there were clear shifts in both their gut bacteria and the metabolites they release into the bloodstream”. What might gut changes say about dementia risk? The researchers looked at stool samples from 150 adults aged 50 and over. Some were healthy, while others had mild cognitive impairment (MCI), sometimes seen as a precursor to dementia. There was also a third group of people who performed normally on cognitive tests but who said they felt like something “wasn’t quite right” with their memory or cognition. All participants gave the researchers both fasting blood samples (which were used to identify 33 key molecules made in our gut) and stool samples (used to identify the gut bacteria of participants). “We explored whether specific combinations of these gut and diet-derived chemicals could separate the …