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Photo: An 8-year-old child gazes at a heron on Saturday in Leizhou, Guangdong province. Typhoon Rammasun, the strongest tropical storm to hit southern China in four decades, has killed thousands of herons since it made landfall in China on Friday.

Bilingual: People in the United Kingdom are among the most prolific drinkers in the world, according to a report released by the World Health Organization. Britons over the age of 15 on average drink 11.6 liters of alcohol a year, according to the WHO. The report reveals that the harmful use of alcohol causes 3.3 million deaths a year worldwide. Europe ranked highest among regions with the highest consumption of alcohol per person.