Cheryl and Liam Payne have named their baby boy, after spending more than a week "getting to know him" first.
The couple named their first child Bear just days after he arrived on 22 March, according to a source quoted in The Sun.
The newspaper said that he has his father's surname.
"They spent over a week getting to know him first before deciding..." the source said.
"They didn't have the name Bear before the birth.
"But they'd been thinking of a name since meeting him and they just felt it suited him."
The source said the couple are "truly over the moon and loving being parents for the first time together".
The name is not that unusual among celebrity children - both Kate Winslet and Alicia Silverstone have sons named Bear.
Former Girls Aloud star Cheryl, 33, and One Direction singer Payne, 23, have stayed out of the public eye since their son was born but just after his arrival, they both shared a picture of the baby with his father.
Monday, May 1, 2017
Social media 'should be fined' for failure to tackle online hate
Social media companies should be fined for failing to remove illegal or harmful material, a committee of MPs has said.
The Home Affairs Select Committee insists many websites are "shamefully far" from tackling the issue, with some putting profits before safety.
There have been a number of high profile hate crimes broadcast on social media in recent years.
In January, a man with learning difficulties was bound, gagged and brutally punched in a video that was live streamed on Facebook.
Last month, a video was uploaded to Facebook of a man being shot dead in an unprovoked attack.
The Islamic State group has also used social media as a propaganda and recruiting tool.
Timi Ariyo, a student at Bristol University, told Sky News he was a victim of online racist abuse.
He said a friend had alerted him to a video posted on Snapchat and when he looked at it, he saw a group of 10 to 15 friends he had been to school with in a pub.
"They were chanting my name, making monkey noises and racial slur," he said.
"At that point, I realised it was beyond racial banter."
A group of MPs are calling on the Government to make it illegal for social media websites not to remove harmful material.
They want fines to be introduced as punishment and would also like companies to publish quarterly reports, outlining their safeguarding strategy.
Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: "Social media companies' failure to deal with illegal and dangerous material is a disgrace.
"They have been asked repeatedly to come up with better systems to remove illegal material... yet repeatedly they have failed to do so.
"It is shameful.
"These are among the biggest, richest and cleverest companies in the world."
There are fears that social media has become a platform for terrorist propaganda, child abuse and racist attacks.
Researchers at Cardiff University have been studying online hate crimes and their frequency. Using algorithms, they analyse particular groups of words that are often used together to cause harm.
Dr Pete Burnap said: "When we see spikes of hate, following trigger attacks, they tend to be responding to ongoing issues.
"So one of the examples would be the ongoing 'us and them' narrative. People write 'send them home', 'get them out', following attacks like Westminster, picking up on immigration and foreign policy."
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "Last month I convened a meeting with the social media companies to ask them to go further in making sure this kind of harmful material is not available on their platforms, and an industry-led forum has now been set up to more robustly address this.
"We will continue to push the internet companies to make sure they deliver on their commitments to further develop technical tools to identify and remove terrorist propaganda and to help smaller companies to build their capabilities.
"I expect to see early and effective action."
The Home Affairs Select Committee insists many websites are "shamefully far" from tackling the issue, with some putting profits before safety.
There have been a number of high profile hate crimes broadcast on social media in recent years.
In January, a man with learning difficulties was bound, gagged and brutally punched in a video that was live streamed on Facebook.
Last month, a video was uploaded to Facebook of a man being shot dead in an unprovoked attack.
The Islamic State group has also used social media as a propaganda and recruiting tool.
Timi Ariyo, a student at Bristol University, told Sky News he was a victim of online racist abuse.
He said a friend had alerted him to a video posted on Snapchat and when he looked at it, he saw a group of 10 to 15 friends he had been to school with in a pub.
"They were chanting my name, making monkey noises and racial slur," he said.
"At that point, I realised it was beyond racial banter."
A group of MPs are calling on the Government to make it illegal for social media websites not to remove harmful material.
They want fines to be introduced as punishment and would also like companies to publish quarterly reports, outlining their safeguarding strategy.
Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: "Social media companies' failure to deal with illegal and dangerous material is a disgrace.
"They have been asked repeatedly to come up with better systems to remove illegal material... yet repeatedly they have failed to do so.
"It is shameful.
"These are among the biggest, richest and cleverest companies in the world."
There are fears that social media has become a platform for terrorist propaganda, child abuse and racist attacks.
Researchers at Cardiff University have been studying online hate crimes and their frequency. Using algorithms, they analyse particular groups of words that are often used together to cause harm.
Dr Pete Burnap said: "When we see spikes of hate, following trigger attacks, they tend to be responding to ongoing issues.
"So one of the examples would be the ongoing 'us and them' narrative. People write 'send them home', 'get them out', following attacks like Westminster, picking up on immigration and foreign policy."
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "Last month I convened a meeting with the social media companies to ask them to go further in making sure this kind of harmful material is not available on their platforms, and an industry-led forum has now been set up to more robustly address this.
"We will continue to push the internet companies to make sure they deliver on their commitments to further develop technical tools to identify and remove terrorist propaganda and to help smaller companies to build their capabilities.
"I expect to see early and effective action."
Report of frosty Brexit talks is 'Brussels gossip', PM insists
Theresa May has dismissed reports that last week's working dinner with EU officials went disastrously as "Brussels gossip".
During a campaign stop in the Lancashire town of Ormskirk, the Prime Minister rejected a newspaper's claims that Jean-Claude Juncker thinks Brexit talks will collapse.
She told a reporter: "Just look at what the European Commission themselves said immediately after the dinner took place which was the talks had been constructive.
"But it also shows these negotiations are at times going to be tough. In order to get the best deal for Britain, we've got to make sure we've got that strong and stable leadership."
Her denial follows a German newspaper article which claimed Brussels officials thought Theresa May was from a "different galaxy" to other EU member states on Brexit.
The leaked account portrayed Jean-Claude Juncker's private dinner with the Prime Minister last week as a disaster.
According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper, European Commission officials were astonished at Mrs May's ambition for the talks.
They accused her of having "no plan" and that it was unrealistic to reach a rapid resolution on the status of expatriates, an exit strategy and a trade deal within two years.
The article quotes Mr Juncker as saying that he left the dinner "10 times more sceptical that I was before".
The FAZ newspaper reported that Mrs May used the dinner to push for an early deal to secure the rights of British workers across the continent.
But Mr Juncker made clear that this could not be settled by June as suggested, given the complex negotiations on topics such as healthcare.
During a campaign stop in the Lancashire town of Ormskirk, the Prime Minister rejected a newspaper's claims that Jean-Claude Juncker thinks Brexit talks will collapse.
She told a reporter: "Just look at what the European Commission themselves said immediately after the dinner took place which was the talks had been constructive.
"But it also shows these negotiations are at times going to be tough. In order to get the best deal for Britain, we've got to make sure we've got that strong and stable leadership."
Her denial follows a German newspaper article which claimed Brussels officials thought Theresa May was from a "different galaxy" to other EU member states on Brexit.
The leaked account portrayed Jean-Claude Juncker's private dinner with the Prime Minister last week as a disaster.
According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper, European Commission officials were astonished at Mrs May's ambition for the talks.
They accused her of having "no plan" and that it was unrealistic to reach a rapid resolution on the status of expatriates, an exit strategy and a trade deal within two years.
The article quotes Mr Juncker as saying that he left the dinner "10 times more sceptical that I was before".
The FAZ newspaper reported that Mrs May used the dinner to push for an early deal to secure the rights of British workers across the continent.
But Mr Juncker made clear that this could not be settled by June as suggested, given the complex negotiations on topics such as healthcare.
Trump Says U.S. 'Can't Allow' North Korea's Missiles to Improve
(SEOUL, South Korea) — President Donald Trump said after North Korea's latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong-Un will eventually develop better missiles, and "we can't allow it to happen."
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the President would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."
"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.
On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.
In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.
"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."
He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."
Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.
North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the President would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."
"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.
On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.
In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.
"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."
He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."
Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.
North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.
Trump Says U.S. 'Can't Allow' North Korea's Missiles to Improve
(SEOUL, South Korea) — President Donald Trump said after North Korea's latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong-Un will eventually develop better missiles, and "we can't allow it to happen."
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the President would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."
"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.
On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.
In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.
"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."
He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."
Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.
North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the President would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."
"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.
On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.
In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.
"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."
He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."
Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.
North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.
Trump Says U.S. 'Can't Allow' North Korea's Missiles to Improve
(SEOUL, South Korea) — President Donald Trump said after North Korea's latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong-Un will eventually develop better missiles, and "we can't allow it to happen."
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the President would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."
"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.
On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.
In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.
"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."
He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."
Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.
North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the President would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."
"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.
On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.
In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.
"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."
He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."
Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.
North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.
Trump Says U.S. 'Can't Allow' North Korea's Missiles to Improve
(SEOUL, South Korea) — President Donald Trump said after North Korea's latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong-Un will eventually develop better missiles, and "we can't allow it to happen."
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the President would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."
"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.
On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.
In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.
"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."
He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."
Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.
North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the President would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."
"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.
On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.
In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.
"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."
He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."
Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.
North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.
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