Kylie Jenner has announced the name of her newborn daughter – Stormi.
The reality star took to Instagram to share the news with her 103 million followers.
The 20-year-old kept her pregnancy “hidden” but on Monday returned with a 12-minute video and announced she’d given birth on 1 February.
Kylie’s picture has been liked over 11 million times in just a few hours – making it one of Instagram’s most popular posts ever.
It shows an out of focus Stormi holding Kylie’s finger and has surpassed the number of likes achieved by both Beyonce and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017 for similar posts featuring their children.
The baby’s name was shared just a few days after Kylie – who has just been revealed as the richest of the Kardashian siblings – unveiled a video documenting her entire pregnancy.
The star pretty much disappeared from social media for months, fuelling speculation that she was pregnant with boyfriend Travis’s baby.
But on Monday she returned with a 12-minute YouTube video titled To Our Daughter, filled with the type of selfies fans had grown used to seeing on Instagram, as well as footage of her baby shower and a first look at Kim and Kanye West’s baby Chicago.
That video has gained over 40 million views in three days.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionIsrael has acknowledged carrying out dozens of strikes inside Syria in recent years
Israeli warplanes have fired missiles at a Syrian military position near the capital, Damascus, Syrian media report.
A Syrian military statement said its air defence systems blocked most of the missiles, but gave no further details.
A monitor said ammunition depots in Jamraya were hit. It is the location of a scientific facility where the West suspects chemical weapons are produced.
Israel, which has acknowledged carrying out at least 100 clandestine strikes in Syria since 2011, declined to comment.
Many of the Israeli strikes are believed to been aimed at preventing transfers of advanced weapons to the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.
The Iran-backed group fought a war with Israel in 2006 and has sent thousands of fighters to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
The Syrian military statement said Israeli warplanes had fired several missiles from inside Lebanese airspace at a military position in the Damascus countryside at 03:42 (01:42 GMT) on Wednesday.
“The general command of the armed forces holds Israel fully responsible for the dangerous consequences of its repeated, aggressive and uncalculated adventures,” it added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said some of the missiles struck ammunition depots in Jamraya.
The area – also known as Dummar – is home to several military facilities but also a branch of the Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC).
A Western intelligence agency told the BBC last year that three branches of the SSRC, including the one at Jamraya, were being used to produce chemical munitions in violation of a deal that saw Mr Assad agree to destroy his chemical arsenal after a deadly Sarin attack in Damascus in 2013.
The SSRC is promoted by the Syrian government as a civilian research institute but the US accuses the agency of focusing on the development of non-conventional weapons and the means to deliver them.
Wednesday’s missile strike came after medics and Western powers accused Syrian government forces of dropping bombs filled with chlorine on rebel-held areas six times over the past month.
Media caption“When I was hit by the gas I couldn’t breathe or talk”
The government has dismissed the reports as “lies”, but UN war crimes experts have called them “alarming” and said they are investigating.
In an interview with BFM television on Wednesday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said “all the indications that we have show that at the moment chlorine is being used by the Syrian regime”.
Asked how France would respond if the use was confirmed by experts, Mr Le Drian noted that last month 25 countries had formed a “partnership against impunity” to hold to account those responsible for chemical attacks.
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionCommuters hitched lifts on the back of lorries to get home
A power cut during the evening rush hour in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, caused major disruption to parts of the city on Tuesday.
Hundreds of commuters could be seen walking along the city’s central avenues as the metro was affected.
Other caught lifts on lorries or hung on to the doors of overcrowded buses.
Parts of the states of Miranda and Vargas were also hit by the cut, which officials blamed on “sabotage” without saying who may be behind it.
Some of those affected reported on social media that buses and taxis raised their fares as demand soared.
With many cash machines without power, people could not withdraw money to pay for transport and were forced to walk.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionCommuters clung to the doors of buses as they tried to make their way homeImage copyrightREUTERSImage captionWith 10 metro stations closed and buses overcrowded, many walked instead
Venezuela’s inflation rate, the highest in the world, means that high denomination notes are hard to come by and stacks of them are needed to pay even modest amounts.
Venezuelan media said 10 metro stations had been closed.
Media captionHow to get by in Venezuela, when money is in short supply
The situation has improved since, but power cuts do continue to occur.
The government regularly blames the problems on “saboteurs” but critics of the administration of Nicolás Maduro say that officials have failed to maintain the country’s facilities and infrastructure.
Mr Karnasuta, 63, is head of Italian-Thai Development, a Bangkok-based firm that helped build the capital’s Suvarnabhumi airport and elevated Skytrain.
The construction magnate and his three companions, believed to be Italian-Thai employees according to local media, were granted bail on Tuesday after two days in detention.
They face charges of “illegal hunting, [and] illegal possession of carcasses of protected animals”, Agence France-Presse reports, quoting the national parks department.
Image copyrightEPAImage captionThungyai Naresuan national park is home to many endangered species, including this black panther
The slain animals – a black panther, a Kalij pheasant and a barking deer – are all protected species under Thai conservation law.
The wildlife sanctuary in western Thailand is home to wild elephants, tigers and many endangered species, according to Thailand’s Wildlife Friends Foundation.
In a televised address, Mr Duda said the aim of the law was to safeguard Poland’s image abroad.
“[The bill]… protects Polish interests… our dignity, the historical truth… so that we are not slandered as a state and as a nation.”
The legislation, approved by the Senate last week, also “takes into account the sensitivity of those for whom the issue of historical truth, the memory of the Holocaust is incredibly important”, he added.
Mr Duda said he would send the text to the Constitutional Tribunal to check whether its regulations comply with the Polish constitution. This is expected to happen within a week.
What does the law say?
It says that “whoever accuses, publicly and against the facts, the Polish nation, or the Polish state, of being responsible or complicit in the Nazi crimes committed by the Third German Reich… shall be subject to a fine or a penalty of imprisonment of up to three years”.
But it adds the caveat that a person “is not committing a crime if he or she commits such an act as part of artistic or scientific activities”.
The country has long objected to the use of phrases like “Polish death camps”, which suggest the Polish state in some way shared responsibility for camps such as Auschwitz.
The camps were built and operated by Nazi Germany after it invaded Poland in 1939.
What has the reaction been?
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said “enactment of this law adversely affects freedom of speech and academic inquiry”
Israel’s foreign ministry said it hoped amendments could be made until the Constitutional Tribunal made its decision, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier described the legislation as an attempt to rewrite history and deny the Holocaust
What is being said in Poland?
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the tensions were a “temporary weakening of relations with Israel and the USA” but that he hoped they would improve after the country explained its position.
He said Poland was committed to combating lies about the Holocaust while Deputy Justice Minister Marcin Warchol said it was wrong to suggest the legislation would stop people researching Polish history.
Poland is governed by a nationalist party, Law and Justice (PiS), which is keen to show the world how Poland was victimised by its German and Soviet neighbours in the war.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionPoland has long objected to phrases which suggest shared responsibility during Nazi occupation
In a separate development on Wednesday, one of the 14 vice presidents of the European Parliament was removed from his post after he referred to a fellow Polish MEP as a Nazi collaborator.
Ryzsard Czarnecki will remain as an MEP and his parliamentary group will be entitled to put forward a replacement. A two-thirds majority was required to remove him, under a procedure that had never been used.
What happened in Poland in WW2?
Poland was attacked and occupied by Nazi Germany. Millions of its citizens were killed, including three million Polish Jews in the Holocaust.
Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust overall.
More Poles have been honoured by Israel for saving the lives of Jews during the war than any other nation.
However, historians say others were complicit.
Some informed on Jews in hiding for rewards; others participated in Nazi-instigated massacres including in Jedwabne where hundreds of Jews were murdered by their neighbours.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionSchools have faced budget shortages – and heads want clearer rules on top pay
Head teachers say the pay levels of all school staff in England, including academy bosses, should be in a fairer framework to stop “fat cat” pay gaps.
The chief executive of the Harris Federation was revealed last week to have become the first in the state sector to earn £500,000.
The National Association of Head Teachers wants more transparency over spending “public money”.
The Department for Education has written to 29 trusts about high pay.
But the academy trusts asked to explain their levels of pay, where bosses earn over £150,000, have only been small, single-school trusts.
The much bigger multi-academy trusts, including Harris, have so far been exempt from this challenge over how much they pay their bosses and managers.
University top pay
The most recent figures, from 2015-16, show more than 120 academy trusts paying someone more than £150,000 – the large majority of which will be in multi-academy trusts.
A spokeswoman for the Harris Federation says its chief executive Sir Dan Moynihan’s earnings of up to £500,000 reflected the high performance of the trust.
Image copyrightUNIVERSITY OF BATHImage captionDame Glynis Breakwell stepped down as vice-chancellor at Bath in the dispute over pay
Harris operates 44 schools and teaches 32,000 pupils – with all schools rated by Ofsted as either outstanding or good.
Education ministers have been highly critical of university heads earning “excessive” salaries – with universities told they would have to explain if their vice-chancellor had pay above £150,000.
The Harris annual accounts show the academy trust pays 10 of its staff over £150,000.
The Department for Education had threatened interventions if they did not show more restraint over pay – and the vice-chancellor of the University of Bath stepped down in the dispute over her earnings of £468,000.
The Department for Education said its funding agency had written in December to academy trusts with bosses earning over £150,000.
The trusts were told there had been “considerable scrutiny over tax-payer funded executive salaries” and such high pay had to be justified.
But this was only for one-school trusts, often successful schools which had converted to academy status.
National pay code
Malcolm Trobe of the ASCL head teachers’ union said that in practice, this would mostly be targeting individual head teachers running a school, rather than managers of big chains.
NAHT leader Paul Whiteman says there needs to be a national framework for salaries within the state school system, with clear guidelines on what pay was appropriate.
“This would protect lower-paid workers, and avoid gaps opening up between the lowest and highest paid people in any school, which are hard to justify in the public sector,” said Mr Whiteman.
The NAHT says fewer than 1% of head teachers earn £150,000.
Questions about pay for academy trust managers are also against a background of schools complaining about budget shortages.
Eileen Milner, chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, told the Public Accounts Committee last week that the 29 single-school trusts paying over £150,000 had been asked for an explanation of that level of salary.
On the responses so far, she told the committee that about two-thirds would require further investigation.
“I hope you take some assurance that we are acting first to understand, but then to challenge,” Ms Milner told MPs.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionMiguna Miguna (L) played a key role in the “inauguration” of Raila Odinga (R)
Kenya has deported opposition supporter and lawyer, Miguna Miguna.
On Tuesday night, Mr Miguna boarded a flight to take him to Canada, where he has dual nationality.
Earlier that day he had appeared in court and been charged with “being present and consenting to the administration of an oath to commit a capital offence, namely treason”.
The charge relates to his role in the mock swearing-in of opposition leader Raila Odinga on 30 January.
The court had ordered that Mr Miguna be bailed following his hearing, but the Kenyan government had refused.
The controversial lawyer had been in the government’s sights ever since he played a prominent role in the “inauguration” of Mr Odinga as the “people’s president”.
He subsequently taunted the police, telling them to come and arrest him, which they did in a dawn raid on Friday.
The government also declared the opposition National Resistance Movement, which Mr Miguna leads, an “organised criminal group.”
Image copyrightAFPImage captionSPD leader Martin Schulz (right) had at first refused to join coalition talks
Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have reached an agreement on a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives (CDU/CSU), according to media reports.
A deal on distributing ministries was said to be one of the last major hurdles towards forming a coalition.
The agreement looks set to end more than four months of wrangling since inconclusive elections in September.
Negotiators have been in non-stop talks since Tuesday morning.
The remaining stumbling blocks have been workers’ rights and healthcare.
SPD leader Martin Schulz had at first ruled out going back into government with Mrs Merkel’s centre-right CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU.
But he changed his mind when CDU/CSU coalition talks with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and Greens broke down.
After months of stalemate, there are now hopes Germany could have a government in place by Easter.
Pillar of stability
However, the SPD’s 460,000 members will have a final say on whether to accept a coalition agreement in a postal vote due to take place in coming weeks.
Those opposed to any deal with Mrs Merkel include a new group within the SPD calling itself NoGroKo (no grand coalition).
European Union allies, such as France, see Germany as a pillar of stability in the bloc and have been hoping Mrs Merkel succeeds.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won 94 seats in parliament in September’s vote and became the third biggest force in German politics.
Media captionRonny Andrews: “What if they had treated me earlier?”
A grandfather waited eight months for cancer treatment only to be told his condition had become terminal.
Ronny Andrews, 64, had a tumour on his liver discovered in January 2017, but it was not until September he finally had chemotherapy.
This was four times longer than the 62 day treatment target set by the Welsh Government and by then it was too late.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said this cancer had been difficult to diagnose.
Mr Andrews told OP’S NEWS Wales Live as soon as he heard he had cancer, he wanted to start treatment.
“I had no fear of having the cancer, I thought ‘well let’s get it out’,” he said.
“But as time went past I thought well this is just growing and growing and not coming out.”
Mr Andrews’ initial biopsy was delayed because he was not told to stop taking his blood thinning tablets, then when the biopsy was carried out, the tumour was missed – this meant it had to be repeated.
Image captionMr Andrews and his family are trying to come to terms with his diagnosis
The delays added months to his wait for treatment.
“When they first saw it, it was 5cm,” said Mr Andrews.
“But by the time they even bothered treating it, it was 15cm. Obviously it was very malignant and fast growing.”
Then, last summer, he was told the cancer was terminal.
He had one treatment – a TACE – in which chemotherapy was injected into the tumour. Unfortunately it had little impact and he was given between three and six months to live.
“For the last six months it’s been ‘what if?’ What if they had treated me earlier? What if I had been sent to a different place of course – but that’s all a bit late now,” he said.
“And we’re just waiting basically, waiting for it to happen.”
The health board said it apologised to Mr Andrews for breakdowns in communication, but insisted all of the investigations were “clinically necessary” to decide the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
A spokesman said: “A more straightforward diagnosis may only take a couple of weeks but a cancer type that is difficult to diagnose may unfortunately take months.
“The health board’s performance against the Welsh Government’s 62-day standard has improved from 70% in 2015-16 to 89% this year despite treating more patients each year.”
Latest monthly figures showed 90% of patients started treatment within 62 days – lower than the Welsh Government target of 95%, which has not been reached since 2008.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said he was looking at changing the cancer treatment targets to better reflect the patient experience.
He said: “In cancer we have a time target, but that target doesn’t tell you about survivorship, about the outcome people have, about the experience they have.
“And what I’m interested in is a broader conversation with the public and people working in the NHS. So it’s about having a set of measures that are intelligent, that help to drive the right sort of behaviour to improve experience and outcomes.”
Dr Tom Crosby, from the Wales Cancer Network, said more funding was needed to improve the time from diagnosis to treatment.
He said: “Whilst we know that patient experience is generally very good in the cancer service in Wales due to hard work of staff, we know survival is not as good as it could be.
“We think at least part of that is related to the time they spend in the healthcare system after they’re suspected of having cancer, before they start treatment.”
For Mr Andrews any changes will be too late.
He said: “The scans are now that it has obviously grown too big and it is will start affecting the rest of my organs. And we will see when, when is the other thing now. It’s what we’re waiting for, when.
“That’s what we do now. We wait. And continue to live our life of course. You got to. No choice.”
A cutting-edge scientific analysis shows that a Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes.
Researchers from London’s Natural History Museum extracted DNA from Cheddar Man, Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, which was discovered in 1903.
University College London researchers then used the subsequent genome analysis for a facial reconstruction.
It underlines the fact that the lighter skin characteristic of modern Europeans is a relatively recent phenomenon.
No prehistoric Briton of this age had previously had their genome analysed.
As such, the analysis provides valuable new insights into the first people to resettle Britain after the last Ice Age.
The analysis of Cheddar Man’s genome – the “blueprint” for a human, contained in the nuclei of our cells – will be published in a journal, and will also feature in the upcoming Channel 4 documentary The First Brit, Secrets Of The 10,000-year-old Man.
Cheddar Man’s remains remains had been unearthed 115 years ago in Gough’s Cave, located in Somerset’s Cheddar Gorge. Subsequent examination has shown that the man was short by today’s standards – about 5ft 5in – and probably died in his early 20s.
Prof Chris Stringer, the museum’s research leader in human origins, said: “I’ve been studying the skeleton of Cheddar Man for about 40 years
“So to come face-to-face with what this guy could have looked like – and that striking combination of the hair, the face, the eye colour and that dark skin: something a few years ago we couldn’t have imagined and yet that’s what the scientific data show.”
Image captionA replica of Cheddar Man’s skeleton now lies in Gough’s Cave
Fractures on the surface of the skull suggest he may even have met his demise in a violent manner. It’s not known how he came to lie in the cave, but it’s possible he was placed there by others in his tribe.
The Natural History Museum researchers extracted the DNA from part of the skull near the ear known as the petrous. At first, project scientists Prof Ian Barnes and Dr Selina Brace weren’t sure if they’d get any DNA at all from the remains.
But they were in luck: not only was DNA preserved, but Cheddar Man has since yielded the highest coverage (a measure of the sequencing accuracy) for a genome from this period of European prehistory – known as the Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age.
They teamed up with researchers at University College London (UCL) to analyse the results, including gene variants associated with hair, eye and skin colour.
Extra mature Cheddar
They found the Stone Age Briton had dark hair – with a small probability that it was curlier than average – blue eyes and skin that was probably dark brown or black in tone.
This combination might appear striking to us today, but it was a common appearance in western Europe during this period.
Steven Clarke, director of the Channel Four documentary, said: “I think we all know we live in times where we are unusually preoccupied with skin pigmentation.”
Prof Mark Thomas, a geneticist from UCL, said: “It becomes a part of our understanding, I think that would be a much, much better thing. I think it would be good if people lodge it in their heads, and it becomes a little part of their knowledge.”
Cheddar Man’s genome reveals he was closely related to other Mesolithic individuals – so-called Western Hunter-Gatherers – who have been analysed from Spain, Luxembourg and Hungary.
Image captionProf Chris Stringer had studied Cheddar Man for 40 years – but was struck by the Kennis brothers’ reconstruction
Dutch artists Alfons and Adrie Kennis, specialists in palaeontological model-making, took the genetic findings and combined them with physical measurements from scans of the skull. The result was a strikingly lifelike reconstruction of a face from our distant past.
Pale skin probably arrived in Britain with a migration of people from the Middle East around 6,000 years ago. This population had pale skin and brown eyes and absorbed populations like the ones Cheddar Man belonged to.
No-one’s entirely sure why pale skin evolved in these farmers, but their cereal-based diet was probably deficient in Vitamin D. This would have required agriculturalists to absorb this essential nutrient from sunlight through their skin.
“There may be other factors that are causing lower skin pigmentation over time in the last 10,000 years. But that’s the big explanation that most scientists turn to,” said Prof Thomas.
Boom and bust
The genomic results also suggest Cheddar Man could not drink milk as an adult. This ability only spread much later, after the onset of the Bronze Age.
Present-day Europeans owe on average 10% of their ancestry to Mesolithic hunters like Cheddar Man.
Britain has been something of a boom-and-bust story for humans over the last million-or-so years. Modern humans were here as early as 40,000 years ago, but a period of extreme cold known as the Last Glacial Maximum drove them out some 10,000 years later.
There’s evidence from Gough’s Cave that hunter-gatherers ventured back around 15,000 years ago, establishing a temporary presence when the climate briefly improved. However, they were soon sent packing by another cold snap. Cut marks on the bones suggest these people cannibalised their dead – perhaps as part of ritual practices.
Britain was once again settled 11,000 years ago; and has been inhabited ever since. Cheddar Man was part of this wave of migrants, who walked across a landmass called Doggerland that, in those days, connected Britain to mainland Europe. This makes him the oldest known Briton with a direct connection to people living here today.
Image copyrightCHANNEL 4Image captionThe actual skull of Cheddar Man is kept in the Natural History Museum, seen being handled here by Ian Barnes
This is not the first attempt to analyse DNA from the Cheddar Man. In the late 1990s, Oxford University geneticist Brian Sykes sequenced mitochondrial DNA from one of Cheddar Man’s molars.
Mitochondrial DNA comes from the biological “batteries” within our cells and is passed down exclusively from a mother to her children.
Prof Sykes compared the ancient genetic information with DNA from 20 living residents of Cheddar village and found two matches – including history teacher Adrian Targett, who became closely connected with the discovery.
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