A Canadian TikTok influencer died last week following a sky diving accident in Toronto, a friend who attended her funeral told CNN.

Tanya Pardazi, 21, who went by the handle philosatea on TikTok, had more than 95,000 followers and two million likes on the app.

Skydive Toronto said a sky diving student died August 27 after they "succumbed to fatal injuries obtained from an emergency situation." The company did not identify the student, but Melody Ozgoli, a friend of Pardazi's for about a decade, told CNN by phone Pardazi was the student who died.

Pardazi had recently begun taking classes with the sky diving company, noting it in her last TikTok post, made August 22.

"The skydiver released a quickly rotating main parachute at a low altitude without the time/altitude required for the reserve parachute to inflate," the company said in a release.

"The jumper was a welcomed recent addition to the sky diving community and will be missed amongst the student's new friends and fellow jumpers of Skydive Toronto Inc," the statement said. "The team at Skydive Toronto Inc has been profoundly affected by this accident as they have refined their student training program for over 50 years."

Ozgoli described her as outgoing, adventurous, open-minded, always there for others, and intelligent.

"She was definitely known for how beautiful she was, but what she was known mostly for was her incredible mind. That is the one thing that every single person that I talked to mentioned, just how bright she was, how smart she was, how much she knew," Ozgoli, 20, said.

Pardazi was known for "picking up new hobbies," according to Ozgoli, who called her friend a "gift to the world."

Ozgoli said a funeral for Pardazi, held Friday, was well-attended.

"At the ceremony, we all wore white because she was an angel," Ozgoli said. "I think it was a unique thing to do, and that's what Tanya was, she was unique, she was different. She was one of a kind, truly."

The South Simcoe Police Service "are investigating the fatality in conjunction with the Office of the Chief Coroner," according to a news release from police.

An Ohio father faces charges in the death of his one-year-old son after he intentionally left the baby in a hot car, police said.

In a Facebook post, New Philadelphia Police Chief Michael Goodwin says the child was initially brought unresponsive into the emergency room by his father, 19-year-old Landon Parrot.

"During the initial investigation the Detectives found inconsistent information being given by the father," Chief Goodwin writes.

When investigators "confronted" Parrot with the inconsistencies in his story, police say he told them what happened.

"The child passed away after being left in the car unattended for approximately 5 hours, with an outside temperature of 87 degrees," according to Goodwin. "During the interview it appears that this was not a matter of forgetting the child but was a deliberate act so as the child would not be a disturbance while in the house."

Parrot faces charges of murder, two counts of endangering children and involuntary manslaughter, the police said in the Facebook post. He's being held at the Tuscarawas County Jail on a $250,000 dollar bond.

He was booked on Friday afternoon, according to the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's website.

CNN has been unable to determine if Parrot has a legal representative.

In 2018 and 2019, a record 53 children died each year from being left in a hot car, according to the National Safety Council. There have been 22 hot car deaths so far in 2022, according to noheatstroke.org.

Monkeypox may potentially cause heart damage in some patients, according to a new international study.

Published in the JACC: Case Reports, the study found a 31-year-old man with a confirmed monkeypox infection developed acute myocarditis one week after first showing symptoms.

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, typically caused by a viral infection.

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The lead author of the study, Dr Ana Isabel Pinho, said the case highlighted cardiac involvement as a potential complication associated with monkeypox infection.

"We believe that reporting this potential causal relationship can raise more awareness of the scientific community and health professionals for acute myocarditis as a possible complication associated with monkeypox," she said.

The study found the patient presented to a health clinic five days following the onset of monkeypox symptoms, including malaise, myalgia, fever and multiple swollen lesions on the face, hands and genitalia.

After a PCR swab sample of a skin lesion, it was confirmed the man had a positive monkeypox infection.

The patient returned to the emergency department three days later, reporting chest tightness radiating through his left arm.

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The patient was admitted to an intensive care unit after an examination with the clinical suspicion of acute myocarditis.

After electrocardiogram and blood work, results discovered that the patient had a range of abnormalities that could indicate stress injury to the heart.

The results of the cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) study performed on the patient were consistent with myocardial inflammation and a diagnosis of acute myocarditis.

Editor-in-chief Dr Julia Grapsa said through the study, they now had a "deeper understanding of monkeypox and viral myocarditis".

"(We know) how accurately diagnose and manage this disease," she said.

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The patient was discharged after one week with a full recovery.

The authors said further research is needed to identify the relationship between monkeypox and heart injury.

A man has died after a series of events that followed a hit-and-run in Adelaide's north yesterday.

While investigating the hit-and-run, police said they received reports the alleged driver was at a property in Craigmore.

As police entered the property, they found two men fighting, with one holding a knife.

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He told police he had self-harmed and was disarmed by the officers before CPR and first aid was administered.

The 32-year-old Salisbury North man died at the scene.

The other man, a 41-year-old from Craigmore, suffered wounds to his hands and was taken to hospital for treatment.

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Hours earlier, a man was hit by a car during a domestic disturbance, just after 3pm in Andrews Farm.

The 26-year-old pedestrian was treated at the scene before being taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Police said the incident is being treated as a death in custody and police will be preparing a report for the coroner.

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Hundreds of workers in the airline industry supply chain are expected to strike on Monday, September 12, triggering more chaos in airports across Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Over 350 ground handlers from various companies employed by airlines like Qantas and Emirates will walk off the job for 24 hours, impacting primarily international but potentially also domestic travel.

The workers are expected to strike for better pay and conditions while Menzies workers in NSW and Victoria will apply to the Fair Work Commission for a protected action ballot.

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Workers from Dnata are pushing for greater financial security and pay increases, including steadier work for part-time workers.

TWU National Secretary Michael Kaine said many employees are distressed by the prospect of worsening pay at a time when the airline industry is already struggling with mass worker shortages.

"Dnata and Menzies ground workers are forced to pursue strike action for the first time because they can't afford to stay in this industry if the extreme downward spiral of wages and conditions continues," he said.

"Ground handling is a highly-skilled job, but thousands of experienced workers have been forced out of the industry by Qantas' illegal outsourcing and the Morrison Government refusing Dnata workers JobKeeper.

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"Those that are left are scrambling to pick up the pieces for scraps."

Kaine said many employees feel they are being forced out of the industry.

"Workers understand the commercial pressure they're under from Qantas, but Dnata and Menzies must act responsibly and come back to the table to settle a fair deal or risk losing more staff," he said.

The strike is predicted to mainly impact those travelling internationally with flow-on effects for domestic terminal.

A Qantas spokesperson confirmed the airline has measures in place to deal with the expected worker shortages on September 12 and that the strike will be felt across the travel sector.

"Enterprise agreement negotiations are a matter for Dnata and its employees," the spokesperson said.

"Dnata provides services to more than 20 airlines at airports around Australia and any industrial action would have an impact across the international aviation sector.

"We have contingency plans in place to minimise the impact on our international customers."

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China has warned the United States it will take "counter-measures" after the Biden administration approved more than $1.62 billion in arms sales to Taiwan.

Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu said on Saturday China was "firmly opposed" to the sales, which "severely jeopardise China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait," and called on Washington to "immediately revoke" them.

Liu's comments on Twitter came after the Biden administration on Friday formally notified Congress of the proposed sales, which include up to 60 anti-ship missiles and up to 100 air-to-air missiles.

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The US State Department said the sales are in line with a longstanding policy of providing defensive weapons to the island and described the "swift provision" of such arms as being "essential for Taiwan's security".

China, however, has accused the US of interfering in what it sees as its internal affairs.

China's Communist Party claims Taiwan, a self-governing democracy, as part of its territory despite never having governed it and has long vowed to "reunify" the island with the Chinese mainland, by force if necessary.

"The US interferes in China's internal affairs and undermines China's sovereignty and security interests by selling arms to Taiwan," Liu tweeted.

"It sends the wrong signals to 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces and severely jeopardises China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait," Liu said.

He called on the US to "honour its commitments to the one-China principle" and ended his series of tweets by saying Taiwan is "an inalienable part of the Chinese territory" and warned China will "resolutely take legitimate and necessary counter-measures".

US-China tensions have spiked since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last month.

China had warned Pelosi against making the trip, and responded by ordering days' worth of military drills around the island after she had left.

Taiwan said Saturday it "highly welcomes" the latest arms sales and thanked the US government for "continuing to implement its security commitments to Taiwan".

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"In response to China's recent continuous military provocations and unilateral changes in the status quo and creating crises, Taiwan's determination to defend itself is extremely firm," Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday.

"This batch of arms sales includes a large number of various types of missiles that are needed to strengthen Taiwan's self-defence, which fully demonstrates that the great importance the US government attaches to Taiwan's defence needs, assisting our country to obtain the equipment needed for defence in a timely manner and to enhance our national defence capabilities."

In an incident that underscored the heightened tensions, Taiwan's military shot down a drone hovering over one of its island outposts just off the Chinese coast on Thursday.

A day earlier, Taiwan said it had warned off drones hovering over three of the islands it occupies off the coast of the Chinese port city of Xiamen.

Two people have died during car racing tragedy in Victoria's north-west.

Emergency services attended the crash at the Rainbow Desert Enduro event just after 9am.

Police believe a vehicle involved in a scheduled race left a track off Fuller Road in Rainbow, struck a tree and caught fire.

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The driver and passenger, both yet to be formally identified, have died at the scene.

Motorsport Australia said in a statement that the event has been officially abandoned.

Police said the exact circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated and they will now prepare a report for the coroner.