Court Sentences Eight-Week-Old Baby To Death

A June 27 ruling from a European human rights court is forcing the English parents of a gravely ill baby to make their last, painful goodbyes to their son.

Chris Gard and Connie Yates have been in a legal battle over potentially life-saving treatment for their son, 10-month-old Charlie, since October of 2016. Charlie was born with a rare genetic condition. His parents believe an experimental treatment available in the United States will help him survive.

Their last legal battle was with the European Human Rights Court (EHRC), determining if they, as parents, have the right to continue to provide medical treatments for their son or if he should be allowed to die rather than continue in his condition, as his doctors have recommended.

The EHRC ruled Tuesday that the parents' application is "inadmissible." They believe Charlie is "being exposed to continued pain, suffering and distress," and any additional treatment would "continue to cause Charlie significant harm."

The full text of the EHRC ruling has not yet been made public, and the court has stated its decision is "final." The EHRC also removed the interim measure to keep Charlie's life support in place.

A spokesman for Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie has been treated since October, has told the parents that there is "no rush" to remove Charlie's life support, and "any future treatment plans will involve careful planning and discussion." The hospital has said that though there is a deadline in place for Charlie, they wouldn't have to follow it exactly. The discussion and planning will take some days to work out.

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JUST IN....Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo accused of $16.4m tax evasion.

Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused by prosecutors in Spain of defrauding Spanish authorities of $16.4 million in tax between 2011 and 2014.

In a statement, the prosecutor's office said Ronaldo, a four-time Ballon d'Or winner, had used a "business structure" -- created in 2010 -- to hide the revenue generated by his image rights from the Spanish treasury, describing the breach as "voluntary" and "conscious."

The 32-year-old -- the world's highest-paid sports star according to Forbes -- has been charged with four crimes against the public treasury.

The statement said the Portugese became a Spanish tax resident in January 2010 and, in November 2011, opted to follow the Spanish tax regime that applies to foreigners working in the country.

CNN Sport has contacted Gestifute, the agency representing the Portugal captain, for comment and also Real Madrid.

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Must Watch: Anthony Joshua Speaks Yoruba and says his best Nigerian food after he defeated vladimir klitschko (VIDEO)

Current Boxing heavy weight champion of the world who defeated vladimir klitschko in an interview spoke some Yoruba and reveals his best Nigerian food.

Anthony Joshua Vs Wladimir Klitschko KNOCKOUT FOOTAGE 2017 (VIDEO)

Undefeated heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua proved that his power and chin are resilient on Sat., April 29, 2017, when he took on Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF, vacant WBA (Super) and IBO heavyweight titles live on Showtime from Wembley Stadium in London, England. After a back-and-forth first few rounds, Klitschko caught Joshua in the sixth and dropped him for the first time in his short career.

The champ would recover, though, and trade with the Ukrainian for the next few rounds. That was until Joshua blasted Klitschko with a mean uppercut in Round 11. 

The full fight Knockout video highlight

Klitschko wobbled, fell down, got back up, was wobbled again, fell down again, got back up again, and then was finally trapped and finished in the corner.

BREAKING: Over 30 Football Viewers Die In Calabar, Nigeria During ManUtd's Game Against Anderlecht.

  

Over 30 people have been reported dead at a football viewing centre in Calabar, Cross River State capital after being electrocuted by a high tension cable that reportedly fell on them.

The football fans are said to have assembled at the centre to watch a UEFA Europa League quarter-final match.

The football fans are said to have assembled at the centre to watch a UEFA Europa League quarter-final match.

According to Channels TV live electricity cable broke from its mooring and fell on the football fans who had gathered at the centre to watch a UEFA Europa League quarter-final match between Manchester United and Anderlecht.

 A survivor told The Punch that a transformer near the viewing centre located in the Iyang-Esu area of the Calabar Municipal local government area exploded during the match and this caused a high-tension cable to drop on the viewing centre.

The survivor said : “It happened during the match between Manchester United and Anderlecht. I heard a deafening bang. I rushed out to see what was happening. When I turned back to go inside the viewing centre, I saw a cable coming down on the centre and this killed the viewers in the hall. “It was a horrible sight to behold. I wish I didn’t come out to watch the match. Come to think of it, I have DStv at home but I enjoy watching matches at viewing centres. I could have been dead. I can’t believe that the people I was chatting and joking with a few minutes ago are all gone in a most anguishing way. This world is vain.” 

BREAKING.......French Police Officer, Gunman Killed On Champs-Elysees

One police officer and an attacker were killed in a Thursday night shooting on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, the French Interior Ministry said.

A car stopped at 102 Champs-Elysees in front of a police van, ministry spokesman Pierre Henry Brandet said. A man emerged from the car and opened fire on the van with an "automatic weapon," he said. The police returned fire and killed the attacker.

The ministry said one police officer was killed. It's not known if the attacker was a man or a woman.

French anti-terror prosecutors and the National Intelligence Service are opening an investigation to determine the nature of the incident, the Paris Prosecutor's Office said in a text to CNN. This means they are looking at terror as a possible motive in the attack.

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Serena Williams is pregnant

Serena Williams just shut down anyone who considers women "the weaker sex."

A spokesperson for the tennis player has confirmed that she and fiancé Alexis Ohanian are expecting their first child. "I'm happy to confirm Serena is expecting a baby this fall," Williams' spokesperson told CNN in a statement.

The news broke Wednesday after Williams offered up a side profile shot of herself in a yellow swimsuit with a caption that read "20 weeks" in a Snapchat posting that quickly disappeared.

But not before a screen shot was taken and sent around the Web.

hat means Williams was pregnant when she won the Australian Open in January, further adding to her reputation as one of the greatest athletes of all time.

After deleting the Snapchat post, there was speculation as to whether Williams was just playing with fans -- even as good wishes flowed in from fellow celebrities and US Open Tennis.

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At Least 44 Dead As Bus Plunges Into Tons River In Northwestern Himachal Pradesh State, India

At least 44 people are feared dead after a private bus fell into the Tons river in India’s northwestern Himachal Pradesh state on Wednesday, said a government official.

Rohan Chand Thakur, deputy commissioner of the Shimla district where the incident occurred, said that the rescue operation was ongoing and that casualties could increase. 

“Our officials, workers and medical teams have rushed to the spot for the rescue work. It’s not possible now to say the details,” Thakur said. The cause of the accident is not yet known.

The ill-fated bus skidded off the road fell nearly 250 meters downhill. Among the casualties, 10 are women and three children, according to the report.

The private bus was on its way to Tyuni in the nearby Uttarakhand state.

Cristiano Ronaldo Goal, Sergio Ramos Own Goal Send Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munich To Extra Time.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in extra time to complete a hat trick and take his career Champions League goal tally to an even 100 as Real Madrid advanced to the semifinals over 10-man Bayern Munich on Tuesday.

Ronaldo found the breakthrough in the extra period with his second goal of the game — though he appeared to be offside — before adding a third to seal a 4-2 second-leg win, 6-3 on aggregate.

Robert Lewandowski had opened the scoring in the second leg with a penalty early in the second half, and though Ronaldo scored his first for Madrid, his header was immediately followed by a Sergio Ramos own goal that levelled the aggregate score and sent the tie to an extra period.

Cleveland Facebook Killer: Spotted at McDonald’s, Steve Stephens Shoots Self Dead After Pa. Police Chase

Stephens fled and Pennsylvania State Police troopers gave chase. One officer performed a "PIT" maneuver, a strategic way of ramming a car to disable it.

"As the vehicle was spinning out of control from the PIT maneuver, Stephens pulled a pistol and shot himself in the head," police said.

For two days, authorities across the country scrambled to find Stephens, the man wanted for the death of Robert Godwin, a self-taught mechanic and grandfather of 14.

"We're grateful that this has ended," Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said. "We would prefer that it had not ended this way because there are a lot of questions, I'm sure, that not only the family, but the city in general would have had for Steve."

Woman With Two VAGINAS Who Doctors Thought Was Infertile Is Now Pregnant With Miracle Baby

The 32-year-old was diagnosed with uterus didelphys at the age of 12.

Since starting trying for a baby with her husband Courtney, 33, the couple have endured two miscarriages and had given up hope of having a baby.

But as they began to consider IVF, Krista discovered she was pregnant.

The horse trainer from Washington, in the US, said: “After being diagnosed with uterine didelphys at 12 years old, I knew I had two uteruses and two cervixes.

“But when I was 30, I found out that I also have two vaginas that are side by side.

“I always felt the separate sections during intercourse and smear tests but I just thought that feeling was a normal thing every woman had.”

Nuclear War Could Break Out At 'ANY MOMENT'.........North Korea

North Korea has consistently issued threats of war toward the United States in recent decades, but the Trump administration's announced end of a "strategic patience" policy with Pyongyang has upped the ante in terms of warnings and bellicose rhetoric.

North Korea's UN deputy representative, Kim In Ryong, on Monday unleashed at a hastily called UN press conference a torrent of threats, war scenarios and rhetoric aimed at the United States.

The press event was held hours after US Vice President Mike Pence visited the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Pence warned North Korea not to test the resolve of the United States "or the strength of our military forces."

In New York, North Korea returned verbal fire. North Korea's UN ambassador condemned the US naval buildup in the waters off the Korean Peninsula, plus the US missile attacks on Syria.

Kim said, "It has created a dangerous situation in which thermonuclear war may break out at any moment on the peninsula and poses a serious threat to world peace and security."

While reporters at the United Nations have heard similar rhetoric from North Koreans before, Monday's forceful wording was on a higher level.

The deputy ambassador, reading from a statement, said, "The US is disturbing the global peace and stability and insisting on the gangster-like logic that its invasion of a sovereign state is 'decisive, and just, and proportionate' and contributes to 'defending' the international order in its bid to apply it to the Korean Peninsula as well."

Kim said his country is ready to react to any "mode of war" from the United States.

Any missile or nuclear strike by the United States would be responded to "in kind," said the North Korea representative.

Cleveland Police Hunt Man They Say Livestreamed Killing On Facebook ( WARNING: Disturbing Content)

AN Ohio man who allegedly murdered a 78-year-old in a video posted to Facebook in a post called “Easter day slaughter” is on the run from the police.

The 37-year-old man, whose real name is Steve Stephens but uses the name “Stevie Steve” on social media, allegedly shot dead the elderly man after choosing him at random.

 The city of Cleveland, Ohio is in      lockdown as police search for Stephens, who also claimed in another Facebook post to have killed 15 people on a murder rampage.

Stephens wrote on Facebook he wouldn’t stop killing until his mother and a woman he names in the video call him.

A children’s mental health case worker at a facility called Beech Brook in northeastern Cleveland, Stephens appeared to have started cracking up several days ago when he posted on Facebook tagging his co-workers.

Turkey Referendum: Erdogan Declares Victory

ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed victory on Sunday in a referendum that would give him vast new powers as the country’s unrivaled head of state, extending his influence over the judiciary and making him dominant over parliament.

 But opposition parties quickly contested the result, demanding recounts of hundreds of thousands of ballots. Tallies published by the state news agency had showed the president’s supporters prevailing in the vote by a thin margin. 

 One of the opposition parties, the pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party, or HDP, posted a message on Twitter saying it would appeal two-thirds of the votes. 

Breaking....Syria: 112 Killed As Bomb Hits Buses With Evacuees.

The death toll from a bomb explosion targeting evacuees leaving besieged Syrian towns has gone up to 112, a monitoring group said Sunday.

The blast hit a convoy of buses Saturday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reported the higher death toll.

The blast struck buses of people leaving their towns as part of a rebel-regime swap. In addition to the deaths, it also injured 55 others in Rashidin, a suburb of Aleppo, according to Syria Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets.

BREAKING......US Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb In Afghanistan

The U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb it’s ever used in combat on Islamic State positions in Afghanistan Thursday night, a move the Trump administration said was aimed at denying the group’s freedom of movement.

The Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb was dropped to reach “a system of tunnels and caves” used by the terrorists, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Thursday.

"The United States takes the fight against ISIS very seriously and in order to defeat the group, we must deny them operational space, which we did," Spicer said, using an acronym for Islamic State. "The United States took all precautions necessary to prevent civilian casualties and collateral damage as a result of the operation."

Chemical Attack In Syria Was ‘100% Fabricated’ – Assad

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reiterated that his government had nothing to do with the chemical gas incident in a rebel-held village last week that killed more than 80 people.

Allegations that his forces had deliberately poisoned civilians were ''100 per cent fabrication'', the president said on Thursday, adding that the Syrian government gave up its chemical weapons stocks as part of a 2013 agreement.

Comedian Charlie Murphy Dies Following Leukemia Battle

Comedian Charlie Murphy died Wednesday after a battle with leukemia, according to his publicist Domenick Nati. 

Murphy was 57.

A long time comic, Murphy rose to fame for his work on Dave Chapelle's popular "Chapelle's Show," where he was a co-star and writer.

U.S. Can Handle N/Korea Alone, Trump Tells China

  

U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Chinese counterpart that the United States can go it all alone in solving the problem in the Korean Peninsula especially the nuclear weapon treat from North Korea, if China decides not to assist.

Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in North Korea and Syria with U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone call on Wednesday, China’s foreign ministry said.