Barack Obama to miss Muhammad Ali funeral for daughter's graduation

US president Barack Obama is to miss Muhammad Ali's funeral to attend his daughter's graduation.
Mr Obama and wife Michelle will be in Washington for eldest daughter Malia's high school ceremony, the White House confirmed.
Ali's widow Lonnie spoke to Mr Obama over the phone and appreciated his "kind words and condolences," family spokesman Bob Gunnell said.
The Obamas are sending a letter to be read at Friday's service in Louisville, Kentucky, where White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett - who knew Ali personally - will represent the president.

The president paid a heartfelt tribute to the boxing legend , who he said "shook up the world and the world is better for it".
In a heartfelt tribute Mr Obama revealed he keeps a pair of Ali's gloves in his private study at the White House, and said we are fortunate that "The Greatest chose to grace our time".

He shook up the world, and the world's better for it. Rest in peace, Champ. pic.twitter.com/z1yM3sSLH3

— President Obama (@POTUS) June 4, 2016

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Serena Williams open up about relationship with Drake

Serena Williams has opened up about her relationship with rapper Drake for the first time.
The pair were rumoured to be dating after being spotted on a string of dates late last year, though neither of them confirmed the romance at the time.
But speaking publicly about the Canadian rapper for the first time, the tennis ace said he shouldn’t have been blamed for her loss to Roberta Vinci at the US Open semi-finals last September.
Following the game, the internet quickly blamed the Canadian rapper for her shock loss, with a #BlameDrake hashtag even popping up.
“I told y’all if Serena lost I was gonna #BlameDrake. I now hate Drake until Serena Williams again. I need a ghost writer for my diss track!" one Twitter user joked.
"I don't think that was fair,” Serena told the July issue of Glamour magazine.
"I'm the one who's playing, who's making mistakes or making winners. I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.
"I played a really good opponent that day. And I wasn't at my best."

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Friendly exes: Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose celebrate divorce settlement in strip club

Friendly exes Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose celebrated their divorce settlement by heading along to a strip club together.
The pair - who have three-year-old son Sebastian together - came to an amicable agreement on their assets and filed the paperwork in court on Monday before heading to the Ace of Spades strip club in Los Angeles.
According to the terms of the agreement, obtained by TMZ, Amber will receive $1 million, and $14,800 a month child support for Sebastian, who the couple will share physical and legal custody of while Wiz keeps their Pennsylvania home and 10 cars.

Amber, 32, previously revealed she and Wiz were working on maintaining a friendship for the sake of their little boy.
She said: "I think that we just wanted different things in our lives. Being married in the public is not easy. Having access to pretty much any and everything we want is not easy. We still love each other.
"Right now we're just working on co-parenting and learning how to be friends. He's at my house a lot for the baby. I'm at his house."
And she also explained that her split from the 28-year-old rapper helped her embrace her inner feminist.
She said: "Going through a divorce, I really saw the double standards. Wiz would be with a different girl every day and get photographed out with girls at the club. I would be on one date with a guy, and it was like, 'You're a horrible mother! You're a f***ed up person! You're a w***e! That's why Wiz left you, you f***ing slut.'
"And I was just like, damn, am I not allowed to live? Am I not allowed to be sexy anymore because I'm a mom?
"I feel like I found my voice. I was constantly defending myself, like, 'No, I didn't sleep with that guy. No, I'm not a w***e. Don't look at me like that.'
" And one day, I woke up and I was like, "Maybe I am - and that's cool.' I'm single. I'm a mom. Yes, I'm going to date. I'm going to live my life and do whatever I want.

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Meet man who lived for 555 days without a heart in his body and still plays basketball

Without a heart to pump oxygenated blood around the body, you die pretty quickly. Transplants though, are hard to come by, which is why scientists are looking into using CRISPR to allow pigs to host human-like hearts .
In the meantime, however, one 25-year-old man has proved that it's possible to live over a year while literally heartless.
Stan Larkin went a massive 555 days wearing an "artificial heart" backpack, which filled in after his ticker was removed while he awaited a transplant donor.
Both he and his brother Dominique were diagnosed with familial cardiomyopathy as teenagers – a terrible condition where your heart can fail without warning.
Both siblings were on the transplant list for several years, and eventually had their hearts removed to make way for healthy donor ones.
For the duration of the wait, both brothers were fitted with a 13.5 pound backpack that connects directly to the cardiovascular system and takes over where the heart leaves off.
While implantable defibrillators and similar technology can assist with partial heart failure, this device – known as Syncardia – is designed to be used when both sides of the heart fail.
While Dominique only needed the device for a couple of weeks, Stan was plugged into his 24 hours per day for 555 days, finally receiving a full transplant on 9 May 2016.
Despite what Larkin describes as an “emotional rollercoaster”, he is now back to full health. “I got the transplant two weeks ago and I feel like I could take a jog as we speak.
I want to thank the donor who gave themselves for me. I'd like to meet their family one day. Hopefully they'd want to meet me,” he said .

Larkin stunned doctors by being able to continue playing basketball, despite having a backpack the weight of nearly four Macbook Pros strapped to his back 24 hours a day.
"He really thrived on the device," said Jonathan Haft, associate professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Michigan, who carried out his surgery.
"This wasn't made for pick-up basketball. Stan pushed the envelope with this technology.
"They were both very, very ill when we first met them in our intensive care units. We wanted to get them heart transplants, but we didn't think we had enough time.
"There's just something about their unique anatomic situation where other technology wasn't going to work."
Younger brother Dominique has been with a donor heart since January 2015, and was able to explain a little of what his brother must be going through, being without the backpack for the first time.
"It's been like having a new life. You can do everything you weren't able to do and everything you thought you would probably never be able to do again," he said.
"You can live without the restrictions you had when you were sick and not have to worry about every little thing."
For Stan, though, it’s one step at a time - he’s even staying off the basketball court for a little while.
"I'll probably run a few pick-up games, but not right away," he told Michigan Live. "I haven't taken a shot yet without the backpack hooked up. I just want to put the heart to use."

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Woman stop job to breastfeed her bodybuilder boyfriend every two hours

A mum has revealed why she put her job on hold to breastfeed her bodybuilder boyfriend every two hours - two decades after having kids.
Jennifer Mulford is currently 'on a break' from her role as a bartender so she can regularly 'feed' her 36-year-old partner, Brad Leeson.
Because she last give birth 20 years ago, she 'dry feeds' every couple of hours to induce lactation by making her body think she has had a baby.
She also takes pills to increase her milk supply and wakes up to 'feed' Brad during the night - although sometimes he falls asleep attached to her breast.
Speaking to The Sun , Jennifer described how breastfeeding her muscular boyfriend is a 'magical experience' that leaves them both feeling peaceful and calm.
She said: “Nights have been a struggle because Brad sleeps so peacefully but we manage to cope – until he falls asleep latched onto me, which is beautiful."

She added: “I’ve taken a break from my job because I want to devote everything to making this work."
Jennifer, from Georgia, US, said she came across a website for Adult Breastfeeding Relationships (ABRs) when single and was immediately envious.
She said she knew she would be a fan because she had always enjoyed her breasts being touched by her sexual partners, 'more than anything else'.
Shortly after, the mum started speaking about the concept of adult breastfeeding with Brad - a former school boyfriend - to see what he thought.
The bodybuilder was instantly 'curious and excited', particularly because he had always been interested in large-breasted women, she said.
“It was like a light switched flicked in his head," she told the newspaper.
Jennifer said the pair's friendship soon developed into their current relationship, where she 'dry feeds' and pumps her breasts every two hours in a bid to induce lactation.
The mum, who has a 20-year-old daughter, also regularly takes the herbal pill Lactiful and drinks Mother's Milk Tea to enhance her milk supply.
She said Brad, a 'real alpha male' who loves going to the gym in their home city of Atlanta, believes breastfeeding could help him live a healthier lifestyle.
He also thinks other women could be jealous of their close bond, she said.
But despite their attitudes towards adult breastfeeding, the couple do not do it in public - and have only told a number of family and friends.
“I’m not opposed to telling people but I don’t think many others would understand," said Jennifer, adding that she wished she could 'tell the world'.
Many people in ABRs feel that breastfeeding has a strong stablising effect on their partnership, enabling them to experience close intimacy.
Others see it as a form of comfort or stress relief.

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Katie Price strips off covering bare boobs in steamy hot tub

The television personality sent her fans' hearts racing when she posted a cheeky video of herself in a hot tub on Wednesday.
Shared on Instagram, the footage features the blonde beauty as she enjoyed the relaxing soak wearing nothing but her birthday suit.
Pricey just about managed to protect her modesty ever so slighty as she was filmed in the tub.
The mum-of-five made sure to cover her bare boobs with her hands as the warm water splashed up against her naked body.

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Human solar panel: Man spend £10,000 on illegal injections to achieve the perfect tan

A man who calls himself a 'human solar panel' has spent a staggering £10,000 on illegal injections to achieve the perfect tan. Karl Dinis, 33, from Cardiff, Wales, is addicted to Melanotan - a drug which stimulates the production of the tanning pigment melanin in the body. Over the past seven years, he has spent thousands of pounds - including £2,500 last year alone - bulk buying the injections from China. Karl, who lives with his partner, Dru Maidment, 33, injects himself once a day in his leg and admits he feels much more confident with a glowing tan. Melanotan 2 is an untested synthetic drug which is not approved by the UK government's Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency However, tan-obsessed Karl says he is not concerned about the health risks.

The full-time nanny said: "I started using Melanotan seven years ago and ever since I have injected every single day.
"In the first four days of using it, I could already notice a difference.
"You only have to be in the sun for a short amount of time for it to take effect - it's like you become a solar panel.
"Over the years, I have spent roughly £10,000 on the injections, they're not cheap but definitely worth it."
He added: "Having a constant tan makes me feel so much more confident in myself, the tan never fades and I always feels healthier with a glow.

 "People ask me how dark I want to go, but I don't have an answer for that, I just want to keep going.
"I'm not concerned about the health warnings, I have used it for long enough now that I think I'd know if there were going to be any long terms effects.
"I'm definitely addicted and I would only stop using them when I am either broke or dead."
Karl's addiction to tanning began seven years ago after a friend suggested he try out the injections.
After trialling them for a week, the nanny was amazed with the results and ordered his first batch from China.
A bottle of Melanotan 2 contains ten injections that last the course of a month.

However, Karl now takes them continuously, meaning he has to fork out around £25 for a new bottle every 10 days.
"I started off using sunbeds but the results were never good enough for me," he said.
"I would always burn which would ruin my tan so I stopped using them and looked for alternative methods of tanning.
"After using Melanotan for less than a week I could already see a difference - the results were amazing.
"Ever since then I have never looked back and I inject once every day.
"I started off injecting into my stomach but it sometimes felt uncomfortable so I now inject into the top of my leg.
"There are no side effects or pain, and I always make sure I have my morning coffee at the same time.
"I wouldn't look at myself and say I am much darker than anyone else, I just think I look healthier with a glow.

"And having a tan makes me feel so much more confident."
Despite Karl's positive reaction to the injections, there have been a number of reports suggesting that the drug has affected people who use it differently - from heart issues to stomach problems, blood infections and eye irritation.
Melanotan 2 has not been given a licence in the UK and is therefore illegal to supply.
Karl said: "When doctors try and warn me about the dangers I'm not shocked, I have done all of the research and as far as I'm concerned I can't see that it is effecting my health in any way.
"I have been injecting for seven years now, and so far, my health is in great condition.
"I love the results to much to stop using Melanotan."

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