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It’s Friday, you’re nearly at the weekend. To make things easier, we’ve rounded up the morning’s top stories.

1. A man has punched a stranger’s baby in the face in a Sydney cafe.

The Daily Mail reports, a 28-year old man has allegedly assaulted a 16-month-old baby girl as she sat in her pram.

At approximately 11:30 am on Thursday morning, the child and her parents were sitting at a cafe on Eddy Avenue, near Central Station in Sydney. The stranger allegedly approached the pram and punched the infant in the face before running away.

According to the police report, the child’s father attempted to pursue the attacker on foot, yelling out for witnesses and passers-by to contact the authorities.

The little girl was treated by NSW Ambulance Paramedics at the scene. She suffered a small laceration to her face, but is otherwise okay.

The alleged attacker was later found close by. He has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He is set to face Central Local Court today.

2. Man arrested over the shooting of Nine church-goers in America’s south.

An man has been arrested overnight over yesterday’s mass shooting in the American town of Charleston, South Carolina. Twenty-one-year-old Dylann Roof was apprehended after a massive manhunt launched by police following the mass murder.

“This individual committed a tragic, heinous crime last night,” said Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen.

It’s believed the gunman sat among the church congregation at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for an hour before opening fire.

One witness, Sylvia Johnson, told MSNBC that the gunman reloaded five times during the attack and said to the predominantly African-American congregation, “‘I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country.”

ABC reports eight people were pronounced dead at the scene, and a ninth tragically died at a trauma centre shortly after the incident. Several other remained seriously injured.

US President Barack Obama has made a statement on the crime, saying, “The fact that this took place in a black church obviously raises questions about a dark part of our history. We don’t have all the facts but we know that, once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.”

3. Global population of ‘displaced’ hits record high.

The UN Refugee Agency has released statistics which show the number of individuals displaced by conflict, poverty and persecution has reached an all-time high of 60 million.

Reuters reports, more than half this number is made up of refugees from war-torn nations such as Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia, and many of them are children.

The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres issued the following statement:

“We are witnessing a paradigm change, an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement as well as the response required is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before.”

On average, in 2014, 42,500 people were displaced globally every single day, forced to become refugees or asylum seekers. Reuters reports, repatriation rates are the lowest they have been in 31 years. In 2014, only 26,800 refugees were able to return home.

The UNHCR are determined to make a change, Guterres stating, “It is now absolutely clear that we are not able to deliver. It is time for the international community to assume its responsibilities.”

4. Incredible footage as a life-guard spots a drowning child in the middle of a crowded wave-pool.

A video (below) was posted to YouTube, which shows footage of a young boy being rescued by a hawk-eyed life-guard at an aquatic centre in an as yet unknown location.

A young boy is floating on a rubber ring, but loses control and falls into the water, immediately becoming distressed. He is struggling to keep his head above water.

Incredibly, despite the densely populated pool, the life-guard spots the boys and jumps in to rescue him, pulling his upper body above the water and taking him to safety.

As The Daily Mail reports, the footage serves as a much needed reminder of just how simple it is for young children to drown.