Donald Trump offers to 'help' terminally ill toddler Charlie Gard

Donald Trump has made an unexpected intervention in the debate over terminally ill toddler Charlie Gard.

The US President said he would be "delighted" to "help" the boy after doctors won a definitive court case to end his life-support treatment.

Charlie suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage.

Mr Trump waded into the debate by referencing Pope Francis' plea for the toddler's parents to be allowed to "accompany and treat their child until the end".

The US President wrote on Twitter: "If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so."

Image:Donald Trump at a meeting with South Korea's Moon Jae-in on 30 June, 2017.

After, Charlie's parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard posted a link to the tweet on their campaign Facebook page with heart emojis and the message: "If he's still fighting, we're still fighting!!! Xxx."

The pair had raised £1.3m in donations to fly Charlie to the US for treatment known as nucleoside bypass therapy.

But medics at Great Ormond Street Hospital fought the bid, saying the operation was experimental and would not help him.

Judges in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court ruled against the parents and in favour of the doctors.

On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights refused to intervene.

Image:Connie Yates and Chris Gard with their son Charlie Gard

Mr Gard and Ms Yates said afterwards that they were told Charlie would have his life support switched off on Friday.

The pair claimed they were denied their final wish to take him home to die.

Huge gun haul heading for UK stopped at Channel Tunnel

Seventy-nine viable guns have been discovered in a vehicle which was about to enter Britain.

Border Force officers seized the weapons, along with ammunition, from the vehicle's trailer on the French side of the Channel Tunnel at Coquelles, near Calais.

The 4mm and 6mm handguns and bullets were hidden in specially adapted engine blocks.

Image:Two men have been charged in connection with the raid

Officers were acting on intelligence gathered over a number of days.

Two men, Janusz Michek, 59, and Denis Kolencukov, 23, have been charged in connection with the raid, which was part of a joint operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and detectives from Scotland Yard's organised crime unit.

Michek, a Polish national, was one of seven people in the vehicle and was held at the scene.

Image:The vehicle was stopped in France as it prepared to enter Britain

Kolencukov, originally from the Czech Republic but residing in Slough, was arrested as he arrived in Dover from Dunkirk.

The pair were charged with two firearms offences and remanded in custody after appearing at Uxbridge Magistrates Court.

No further action will be taken against six Polish nationals arrested in Coquelles - four women aged 58, 41, 17 and 15 and two men aged 26 and 22.

Image:Officers carried out the raid acting on intelligence gathered over a number of days

Graham Gardner, the NCA's deputy director of investigations, said: "Our recent threat assessment highlights that handguns are still commonly favoured by some criminal groups in the UK.

"They may not be the largest firearm, but they are easily concealable and lethal in the hands of anyone prepared to use them."

Detective Chief Superintendent Michael Gallagher, from the organised crime unit, said: "I have no doubt that a number of these weapons were destined for the streets of London, where they would have caused misery and unspeakable damage to the community."

President Donald Trump's most memorable tweets

Donald Trump is more attached to his Twitter account that any US president since the social media website's invention.

Whether it is advertising his latest appearance on Fox and Friends, railing against the "Fake News Media", or his regular refrain of "Make America Great Again" (tweeted in caps, of course), barely a day goes by when this President doesn't tweet.

Among his most controversial recently is the tweet of a clip showing him punching a person with a CNN logo on his face before walking away unscathed, a tweet that some have said promotes violence against those in the media.

The "Fake News Media" is a regular subject of Mr Trump's tweets - whether it's CNN, print giants the New York Times and Washington Post or, indeed, any media outlet that does not say what he thinks it should.

He abused TV hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, branding him "psycho" and her "crazy" and claimed she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when he saw them at his Florida estate in December.

Sometimes his tweets provoke anger, such as his criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the days following the terror attacks in London.

Mr Trump was widely slammed for taking the Mayor's remarks out of context and for further tweets that appeared to use the attacks to promote his own agenda.

Other times the Trump Tweets spark confusion, such as the bizarre term "covfefe".

He wrote "Despite the constant negative press covfefe". That tweet was later deleted but not before it naturally set friends and foes alike on an excited (but ultimately pointless) search for the word's meaning.

Memes were born and the mystery word even trended but what he meant by tweeting such nonsense was never clarified.

Various celebrities have come in for the Trump Twitter Treatment, among them Arianna Huffington, Sir Alan Sugar and Rosie O'Donnell, who has enjoyed a decade-long feud with The Donald.

Actress Meryl Streep ("overrated") and ex-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was "even worse" on The Apprentice) are among the latest.

He also spreads the fun around other countries, with Germany especially coming in for criticism for not paying up defence-wise. He also hit out at Sweden for its immigration programme.

Rapper Snoop Dogg shot a toy gun at his likeness in a music video and Mr Trump was having none of it.

And, speaking of Mr Trump predecessor, Barack Obama gets accused of making bad deals, spending too much money and, most often, spying on the Trump campaign during the election. Mr Trump thunders: "This is McCarthyism!".

It's no secret that the US President is very proud of his daughter Ivanka. He has used Twitter to praise and protect her, saying that she was "treated so unfairly" by a business that decided to stop selling her fashion brand.

But one of the most common themes of Mr Trump's tweets is America's security.

He praises veterans and the military while occasionally relaying the number of crimes in Chicago for his 33 million followers. He saves most of his frustration (and capital letters) for his comments on the long-running saga of his beloved travel ban. "See you in court!"

Gunmen open fire near French mosque injuring eight people

Two men have carried out a shooting near a mosque in Avignon leaving eight people injured, the French prosecutor's office has said.

According to witness accounts, at least two armed men got out of a car around 10.30pm on Sunday near the Arrahma mosque and opened fire.

None of the wounded are said to have life-threatening injuries.

The prosecutor ruled out any connection with terrorism.

"From what we know this evening, the mosque was not targeted. The fact that it happened in the street of the religious establishment was unconnected with it," the prosecutor said.

Casualties reported as car bombs rock Damascus

A number of people have been killed or wounded after a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus, according to a Syrian state television report.

It said security forces intercepted three suicide car bombers on Sunday morning, blowing up two at the entrance to the city.

The third was able to enter the city and blew himself up after being surrounded in Tahrir Square, causing several deaths and leaving a number of people wounded.

Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a senior police official saying that "terrorists simultaneously blew up three cars", two of them on the road to Damascus airport southeast of the capital and a third in the eastern Sahat Al-Tahrir district.

"The terrorist bombings killed and wounded several civilians and caused physical damage to the area," the official said.

It was not immediately clear if the two explosions on airport road, at the entrance of the city, were caused by the suicide bombers or if their bombs were detonated by security forces.

Damascus has been spared the large-scale battles that have devastated other major Syrian cities during the country's six-year civil war.

But dozens of people have been killed in bombings, particularly on the outskirts of the capital.

In mid-March, bomb attacks on a courthouse and restaurant in Damascus killed 32 people. They were claimed by the Islamic State group.

That came days after two explosions that left 74 dead in the capital's Old City and were claimed by the hardline Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham alliance, led by the former al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.

State officials refuse to turn over voters' sensitive data to Donald Trump's election panel

President Donald Trump is trying to compile a list of voter data from all 50 states by compiling an extensive range of information on American voting habits going back over a decade.

The President’s commission on election integrity sent letters to all 50 states asking for voter names, birthdays, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, and their voting records from 2006 until today. But, state officials from red and blue states alike are fighting back.

Officials more than 10 states, including Virginia, California, New York, and Kentucky all refused to honour the request for their voter roll data, saying they had an obligation to protect the fairness of their elections.

The White House called the refusals a "political stunt".

“At best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate Donald Trump’s alternative election facts, and at worst it is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression,” Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, said.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla argued that the request would only serve to legitimise the President’s false claims that there was widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election, which Mr Trump says is why he lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes.

“I will not provide sensitive voter information to a commission that has already inaccurately passed judgement that millions of Californians voted illegally,” Mr Padilla said, referring to the President’s claims that Californians voted illegally en-masse. “California’s participation would only serve to legitimise the false and already debunked claims of massive voter fraud by the President, Vice President, and [Kansas Secretary of State Kris] Kobach.”

Designer Nipples Set to Trend

Too big, too small, uneven and saggy. For years women’s breasts have been met with far-reaching criticism, leading to body issues and unnecessary worry.

But, as if we don’t have enough to contend with, we’re now being asked to reconsider what’s normal when it comes to our nips.

These days it seems no ordinary boob job will do, after one surgeon revealed that he has seen a huge surge in the number of women asking for nipple operations.

In as little as six months, Dr Norman Rowe, a plastic surgeon based in New York City, says that the weekly number of nipple patients has more than quadrupled, from four a week to around 18.

“Nothing is above cosmetic surgery now, people are looking at every detail. It's not enough now to get a breast augmentation or rhinoplasty - women want to fine-tune every element. And these days, that's possible.”

Worryingly, this is a trend that Rowe says is driven by the fashion of celebrities like Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Rihanna wearing sheer tops or dresses that leave their nipples exposed.

As such, he reports women being triggered to ask him for lighter nipples, smaller areolas and more symmetry.

“You see a lot of celebrities now wearing see-through dresses,” he said.

“My patients come in with pictures from magazines of nipples that they want; they want to wear see-through dresses too, and that makes them take a closer look at their nipples.”

In some instances, patients are even asking for more protruding nipples that will show when they go braless.

“For want of a better word, they want headlights,' Dr Rowe explains.

“I've had a number of women tell me that, when they're wearing a bathing suit, they want their nipples to be more prominent.”

While the free the nipple movement remains important to gender equality, it seems that the increased attention to the area has created a whole new area of insecurity for women.