Tyson Fury stripped of IBF world heavyweight title after Wladimir Klitschko activates rematch clause

Champ: Fury holds his belts after winning the bout in Dusseldorf

Tyson Fury has been stripped of his IBF world heavyweight title.

The Brit beat long-standing champion Wladimir Klitschko with a stunning display in Dusseldorf last month.

In doing so, he took Klitschko's four belts - but the Ukranian confirmed last weekthat he had opted to exercise his right to a rematch.

And the IBF have now removed Fury as their champion after he failed to fight his mandatory challenger.

Fury had been urged to fight Vyacheslav Glazkov, with calls for purse bids made just two days after the original bout.

Badly burned girl who lost family in arson attack asks world to send her a card this Christmas

Tragic: Safyre Terry was badly burnt in the blaze that killed her family

A little girl who was badly burnt in a fire that killed her father and siblings wants one thing for Christmas - greetings cards.

Safyre Terry has appealed online for the world to share the special day with her, as her own family is no longer around to do so.

In 2013 Safyre’s home in Schenectady, New York was destroyed by arson, killing her father David Terry and three younger siblings.

The little girl only survived the blaze because her father shielded her with his body.

Paris terror attacks: Third Bataclan terrorist 'has been identified by police'

Heartbreaking: Members of Eagles of Death Metal visit a memorial that pays homage to the victims of the terrorist attacks at Le Bataclan

French police have identified a third attacker involved in the Bataclan massacre last month, according to sources.

Gunmen wearing suicide belts burst into the Paris venue during an Eagles of Death Metal concert.

Authorities said that 90 people died at the concert hall.

Responsibility for the atrocity was later claimed by Islamic State.

Suspected burglar hiding from the Police gets attacked, eaten by alligator

Authorities say a man who may have hidden as officers investigated reports of two suspicious men in a Florida community targeted by recent burglaries was killed by an 11-foot alligator.

Brevard County Sheriff's Maj. Tod Goodyear says 22-year-old Matthew Riggins told his girlfriend he would be in Barefoot Bay to commit burglaries with another suspect. Authorities received calls Nov. 13 about two suspicious men in black walking behind homes and investigated. Riggins was reported missing the next day.

Goodyear said sheriff's divers recovered Riggins' body 10 days later in a nearby lake and the injuries were consistent with an alligator attack. Authorities said Riggins had drowned and the alligator, which behaved aggressively toward divers, was trapped and euthanized. They also claimed that parts of Riggins' body were found inside the alligator.

Florida Today reports a second person has been taken into custody.

Drug cartels are battling over land revenues in Mexico's 'gold belt'

Heroin traffickers linked to the abduction and disappearance of43 students a year ago are battling over millions of dollars paid by Canadian mining giant Goldcorp to a village in Mexico's southern gold belt, leading to a wave of murders.

As a signatory to a Conflict-Free Gold Standard drawn up by the World Gold Council industry group, Goldcorp commits to extracting the precious metal in a manner that "does not fuel unlawful armed conflict or contribute to serious human rights abuses."

But residents of Carrizalillo in the impoverished state of Guerrero say the some $3m a year in rent paid by Goldcorp for their land, which the mine is built on, is fueling a bloody feud between two rival cartels. Village authorities say the company is not doing all it can to protect them.

Conductor kills man a week before his travel date to the US over N50

Babatunde Omoyeni, a web designer who planned to travel on the 10th of December to spend his Christmas and New Year holidays  in the United States of America, has been killed in Lagos over N50.

After obtaining all travel documents, he boarded a bus on Saturday and gave the conductor N500, but the conductor told him he didn’t have N450 change, because the fare was N50. When they got to the bus stop, Omoyeni  demanded his change and a fight ensued.

An Alfa in the bus intervened and the fight ended. But the conductor, who was still upset by the incident followed the victim to his house unbeknownst to the victim.

Transgender brother and sister swap sexes one month apart

 A brother and sister have swapped genders after they came out to their parents as transgender just a month apart.

At just three years old, Aly McGarrity was a tomboy who enjoyed playing football with the boys, while older sibling Russie, then 5, preferred playing dress up with the girls.

For Russie, now known as Rai, the next few years were hard, her mother Beth told Good Housekeeping.

At high school, she was bullied by other students but refused to bow to pressure to conform and adopted an androgynous look.

'I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not,' she told her parents.

Mrs McGarrity, from Connecticut, says she always knew her children were a little different.

But she, and husband Russ, became worried about Rai who slowly spiraled into depression.

White House: Donald Trump Muslim plan 'disqualifies' him from presidency

Donald Trump's statement that Muslims should be banned from entering the United States "disqualifies" him from being president, the White House spokesman said Tuesday.

"The fact is what Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in Tuesday's press briefing. For a White House administration to so heavily weigh in on an opposing party's nominating contest is a highly unusual step.

Earnest noted first that every president must take an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the U.S. Constitution, and thus, he said, Trump would not qualify.

What you should know about this 'new' STD

As if there's not enough bad STD news to worry about already—a recent study suggests there's a new sexually transmitted infection in town. Introducing: mycoplasma genitalium, or MG.

Though experts have known of MG's existence since the '80s, the new paper published in the International Journal of Epidemiology reveals that the bacterial infection, which resides in the urinary and genital tracts, likely spreads through sexual contact.

To reach their findings, researchers at University College London, examined urine samples of 4,507 men and women between 18 and 44 years old who were sexually active with at least one partner. Of these participants, 48 women and 24 men were diagnosed with MG. However, when the researchers tested urine samples from about 200 teenagers who had never had sex, zero tested positive for the infection.

We spoke with Raquel Dardik, MD, a clinical associate professor at NYU Langone's Joan H. Tisch Center for Women's Health, to get the facts on the "new" STD.

The secret creator of bitcoin has been unmasked — again

The creator of bitcoin may be an Australian finance geek named Craig Steven Wright, according to a new report by Wired's Andy Greenberg.

Or it could be Wright and his close friend Dave Kleinman, who died two years ago, according toGizmodo.

Or Wright could be a man who really wants to take credit for it.

Or the hunt to identify bitcoin's creator is wrong again.

In 2009, someone — or some people — named Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin, a type of digital currency that uses cryptography to move money and records it in a ledger without the need of a bank. The cryptocurrency was once an obsession among finance geeks, but emerged into more of a mainstream economic obsession. A bitcoin startup even sponsored the Bitcoin Bowl, a college-football bowl game, last year.

The US is building a new advanced missile defense system — and Iran could be one reason why

Iran just launched a ballistic missile in apparent violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions.

On Tuesday, Reuters reportedthat Iran "tested a liquid-fueled missile ... capable of carrying a nuclear warhead" last month, citing two anonymous US officials. 

The test would mark Iran's second illicit ballistic-missile launch since the landmark nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was reached between Iran and a US-led group of six countries earlier this year.

Iran also tested a long-range, nuclear-capable Emad-class missile in October.

The July nuclear deal is aimed at implementing a number of non-binding controls on Iran's ability to stockpile fissile materials for a nuclear weapon over the next 15 years, in exchange for the lifting of most US and EU and all UN sanctions on the country. 

J.K. Rowling says Donald Trump is WORSE than Voldemort as Twitter reacts to US politician

J.K. Rowling has insisted Donald Trump is much worse than Harry Potter villain Voldemort.

The author of the wizard saga has weighed in after Twitter compared the pair following the US presidential candidate's statement saying all Muslims should be banned from entering the States .

It didn't take long for the internet to draw comparisons between Trump and Potter's evil nemesis, with many suggesting that the businessman-turned-politician's hair could be one of the Horcruxes harbouring part of his soul.

2 men find €100k at the river, return to police & could get 5% of the money back

This happened to two Austrian men. They went to relax near the Danube river in Vienna, when the mega bucks floated by and they dived to collect it.

"On Saturday morning at 10 a.m., people called the police, as there were two young men in the Danube river apparently trying to retrieve cash," said Patrick Maierhofer, a spokesman for the Vienna Police.

Police arrived on the scene within minutes and saw that the men had retrieved the money which they handed over to them...

Scarface' Actor Robert Loggia Dead At 85

Actor Robert Loggia, known for his roles in "Big" and "Scarface," died on Friday,according to Variety. 

Loggia's widow, Audrey, told TMZ that her husband struggled with Alzheimer's for the past five years. Audrey added that the Oscar-nominated actor "was an awesome husband and an awesome father."

Loggia appeared in a variety of work, including "Gunsmoke," "Malcolm in the Middle," "The Sopranos," "Independence Day" and "An Officer and a Gentleman," among countless other roles. He earned his Oscar nomination for his supporting role as Sam Ransom in 1985's "Jagged Edge." 

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World Powers To Address Alleged Atrocities In North Korea

 The United Nations Security Council will meet next week on human rights in North Korea, which has been accused by a U.N. inquiry of abuses comparable to Nazi-era atrocities, the United States said on Friday.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 2:30 p.m. (1930 GMT), the spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Hagar Chemali, said in a statement. She added that senior U.N. officials would brief the council.

The other eight council members who supported the U.S. decision to revive discussions on alleged rights abuses in North Korea are Chile, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Britain, Chemali said on Thursday.

The Security Council last discussed the issue a year ago.