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Breaking news: NSW Police arrest a man wanted over a missing 4 y/o boy

NSW Police Force  have located and arrested a 29 year old man they had been searching for this morning.

Earlier today they had asked for urgent public assistance to help locate a 4-year-old boy who was taken from a Grafton childcare centre about 3pm yesterday.

The boy has been located and the man faces charges.

1. Madeleine McCann dig

Investigators in Portugal are preparing to search a cordoned off area of scrubland just 270 metres away from where Madeleine McCann vanished.

The area to be combed is the size of three football fields and is where a suspect was seen walking away with a little girl in his arms the night Madeleine disappeared seven years ago. If they find suspicious ground, police will then bring in sniffer dogs, ground penetrating radar and possibly excavation equipment, reports the BBC.

2. Bowe Bergdahl backlash

Former military comrades of Bowe Bergdahl, the US Soldier freed after 5 years in captivity, have made public claims that the American prisoner of war was a deserter whose “selfish” actions costs the lives of six fellow soldiers searching for him.

Writing for The Daily Beast Nathan Bradley Bethea, an officer who served with Mr Berghdahl, said they were talking for the first time now because they had previously faced the risk of prosecution if they spoke out while efforts continued to free him.

“The truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.”

“He’s lucky to have survived, “ Mr Bethea said. “No human being deserves that treatment, or to face the threat of that treatment every day for nearly five years.

“But that certainly doesn’t make Bergdahl a hero, and that doesn’t mean that the soldiers he left behind have an obligation to forgive him.”

3. Rolf Harris

At the trial of entertainer Rolf Harris, the Australian  has been accused of deliberately lying after footage was shown to the court of him in a British town where he had previously claimed not to have been until four years ago.

Harris had told the Court last week that he had never been to Cambridge, had never taken part in a celebrity sport game show in the UK.

The BBC reports that the complainant said she was indecently assaulted there by Mr Harris at around the time she was aged 14 in 1975 while Harris took part in a celebrity sports game.

After the video was shown to the court he said that he did not remember visiting the town. He said that as an entertainer he was just put on a bus and driven somewhere but that it was impossible to know where.

Harris is charged with 12 indecent assaults between 1968 and 1986, involving four separate women. He denies all charges.

4. Georgie Gardner miscarriage pain

One of the most loved women in Australian television, Georgie Gardner, has opened up about the intense grief and pain she went through when she suffered two miscarriages while trying for a third baby.

For more read this post here.

5. The world’s most glamorous Queen

King Juan Carlos of Spain has announced his intention to abdicate, after nearly 40 years on the throne.

“A new generation must be at the forefront… younger people with new energies,” the 76-year-old king said in a televised address.

His son, Crown Prince Felipe, 45, will take over the throne. His wife – former television presenter Princess Letizia – is now being called the world’s ‘most glamorous’ Queen’.

6. India gang rape protestors

Hundreds of protestors, mainly women, have gathered outside the office of state chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to protest the treatment of the gang rape case of two teenage cousins last week in India.

The two teenage girls were found hanged from a tree in Badaun district last week. The victims’ families say it took police more than 12 hours to respond to reports they were missing.

Police have sprayed the crowd with water canons in an attempt to control them.

Meanwhile there are reports of another woman found dead after being gang-raped in another area of the state. The 22-year-old woman was forced to drink acid before she was strangled.

7. Football club under investigation

A Melbourne football club is under investigation after allegations that players as young as 17 were forced to strip and run laps around an oval naked as punishment for poor performance in a practice game.

The Age reports that parents of the East Burwood Rams players prompted an official complaint.

The Eastern Football League said they were investigating the incident, ”Once the investigation into the incident is completed, the details will be assessed and any penalties or sanctions will be delivered based on the findings and in accordance with [league] procedures and rules” an official told The Age.

8. Baby dies from dangerous product

A sixth baby has died from a dangerous product – recalled in 2013 – but still for sale on second hand sites.

The Nap Nanny – a product designed to mimic the curves of a baby car seat, elevating an infant slightly to help reduce reflux, gas, stuffiness or other problems has been linked to the deaths of six babies.

An eight-month-old baby girl from the US has died after being found partly hanging over the side of the nap nanny, trapped between the recliner and a crib bumper.

For more information on the recall go here.

9. Measles at a 20-year high

In the US measles cases have hit a 20-year high driven by the surge of anti-vaccination advocates.

More than one in seven of the cases this year alone have resulted in hospitalisation.

Assistant surgeon general Dr. Anne Schuchat said, “The current increase in measles cases is being driven by unvaccinated people, primarily U.S. residents, who got measles in other countries, brought the virus back to the United States and spread to others in communities where many people are not vaccinated.”

A graph titled, Anti-vaxx? How about pro-disease? shows the upsurge in cases.

10. US Emissions cuts

The US President Barack Obama has announced a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 per cent by 2030.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposal will also “reduce pollutants that contribute to the soot and smog that make people sick by over 25 percent.” The agency projects the reductions will avoid 2,700 to 6,600 premature deaths and 140,000 to 150,000 asthma attacks in children.

11. Mother’s horror at son served raw chicken by fast food outlet

A NSW mother has expressed her horror at the fast food company McDonald’s, after her five-year-old son was served a six pack of raw chicken nuggets.

The Illawara Mercury reports  that the chicken was ‘strangely soft’ when he bit into it.

Tracy Luke – a mum of four – says she returned them and the Woonona store manager told her, “Oh, sorry … we’ve had another one complain about that” .

She posted a picture to a Facebook Illawarra ‘name and shame page’ and refused to remove it. “I’m livid. My son’s epileptic too – he could have possibly died from this,” Mrs Luke said

“I said I won’t [remove the photo] until something’s done. I just don’t want this to happen to someone else.”

A McDonald’s spokeswoman told The Illawarra Mercury the company was investigating.

“We are disappointed that this has happened,” she said. “We are currently investigating this with the restaurant and liaising with the customer directly.”

12. Indian schoolgirl youngest female to climb Mount Everest

A 13-year-old Indian schoolgirl – the daughter of a tribal farm labourer – has become the youngest female to climb Mount Everest.

Malavath Poorna reached peak on May 25 with a 16-year-old friend from one of India’s lowest Dalit castes previously known as “untouchables”.

The expedition to Everest was made possible after an Indian government-run welfare group sponsored Malavath.

13. Protesters in Thailand reference The Hunger Games in their demonstration.

Protesters demonstrating against the military in Thailand – which has taken control of the country after a coup last month – are taking a leaf out of the YA book and film series The Hunger Games.

They’re not pitting teenagers against each other in a fight to the death, but have adopted the three-fingered salute featured in the film franchise – which acts as a sign of resistance to the corrupt Capitol – as a sign of their own protest.

In Thailand, barricades have been appearing and demonstrations have been shut down, and some major international news channels – such as CNN and the BBC – have been taken off air.

The Guardian reports that locals have started using the three-fingered salute, to represent their cause.

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