Mom gives birth on toilet after being told to take paracetamol

A woman has described how she was told to take paracetamol when she phoned a hospital in Ystad, southern Sweden, in pain. Just moments later she gave birth to a baby in the toilet.

The Expressen tabloid reports that the woman, from western Sweden, was 31 weeks' pregnant when she started getting pains in the lower part of her stomach on a visit to southern Sweden to celebrate Easter.

She called a health advice hotline which advised her to go to hospital to rule out urinary infection. The general surgery in Ystad then referred her to the obstetrics and gynecology department which found traces of blood in her urine.

She was given medication for urinary infection and told to make an appointment with her midwife after the weekend, according to a report filed to Sweden's Health and Social Care Inspectorate seen by Expressen.

Later the same evening the woman contacted the hospital again, but a CTG and vaginal ultrasound did not show anything out of the ordinary, so she was sent home once again.

"We get home at 1.30am and I'm in so much pain now that my legs hurt," the woman writes in her report.

Her husband called the hospital again, explaining that his wife was in so much pain that she was unable to speak, but was told that she should take an Alvedon – a Swedish brand of paracetamol-based painkillers.

The woman explains in the report filed to the Health and Social Care Inspectorate that she then threw up and ran to the toilet where she had three contractions, pushed and gave birth to a son in the toilet chair.

"After 28 minutes the ambulances come and we go back to Ystad," she writes.

Netanyahu Thanks Trump for His Support of Israel

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a meeting on Sunday with Donald Trump in New York, during which he thanked the U.S. Republican presidential candidate for his friendship and support of Israel.

Netanyahu’s office said that the meeting, which was held at Trump’s residence in New York, lasted for more than two hours. The Israeli ambassador in the United States Ron Dermer, as well as Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, took part in the meeting.

According to a statement released by the prime minister’s office “Netanyahu presented Israel’s positions on regional issues related to Israel’s security and efforts to achieve peace and stability.”

“Prime Minister thanked Mr. Trump for his friendship and support of Israel,” the statement added.

Netanyahu is also scheduled to meet Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton later Sunday

Trump Threatens to Invite Gennifer Flowers to Monday Debate

WASHINGTON – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he might invite Gennifer Flowers to the nationally televised debate he will have with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton early this coming week.

Flowers claimed in 1992 that she and Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, who at the time was running for president, had had a romantic relationship in the 1970s.

The mogul’s campaign director, Kellyanne Conway, said Sunday on CNN that the possibility that Flowers might be in the debate audience was suggested so that Hillary Clinton knows that the two candidates may invite people whose presence might adversely affect their opponent to the Monday contest at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

However, she told CNN, “We have not invited (Flowers) formally, and we do not expect her to be there as a guest of the Trump campaign.”

Trump had tweeted on Saturday that he might invite Flowers after billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner, harsh Trump critic and strong Clinton supporter, Mark Cuban, said on his Twitter account that Clinton’s campaign had invited him to attend the debate and sit in the front row, ostensibly to rattle the mogul.

“If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!” Trump had tweeted, referring to Cuban’s now-cancelled television reality show “The Benefactor.”

The alleged former lover of President Clinton had quickly responded: “Hi Donald. You know I’m in your corner and will definitely be at the debate.”

Hillary Clinton’s campaign later issued a statement saying that the candidate “plans on using the debate to discuss the issues that make a difference in people’s lives.”

“It’s not surprising that Donald Trump has chosen a different path,” added the campaign spokeswoman, Jennifer Palmieri.

Clinton and Trump are virtually tied just prior to Monday’s debate, according to a new national voter survey published Sunday by The Washington Post and ABC News.

It is expected that the Monday night debate will be one of the most heavily watched television events in history with eight out of 10 voters saying they plan to tune in, according to the Washington Post poll.

Of those polled, 44 percent say they expect Clinton to “win” the debate and 34 percent think that Trump will be victorious.

Rare and horny ox spotted looking for ladies in Sweden

The muskox gets its name from the strong smell the male members of the species omit during the summer mating season in an effort to attract females.

But it seems one Swedish bull’s aroma as well as his radar aren't quite up to scratch. The animal, which has been sighted in recent days in the vicinity of Lillhärdal, Jämtland in western Sweden, has apparently wandered down the wrong road in his attempts to find a mate.

“He is looking for ladies and there are none of those in Lillhärdal, so he’s expected to move on,” Claes Ahlström, a communications officer at Jämtland County, told radio station P4.

Hundreds of Haitians Stuck in Mexican Border City

Hundreds of Haitians Stuck in Mexican Border City

MEXICO CITY – Hundreds of Haitians hoping to cross into the United States are stuck in Tijuana, a border city in northwestern Mexico, after making the trek north from Brazil, where their dreams of a better life were dashed by an economic downturn.

Thousands of Haitians fled their homeland following the 2010 earthquake and were welcomed in Brazil, which offered them visas on humanitarian grounds.

The 2014 World Cup and this year’s Summer Olympic Games provided opportunities for the Haitians to work in construction, restaurants and the cleaning industry.

Some of the emigrants even had children in Brazil, whose economy has been battered by a deep recession, leaving them without jobs and struggling once again to survive.

The Haitians turned their sights north to the United States, but they now find themselves marooned in Tijuana, located in Mexico’s Baja California state near San Diego, California.

U.S. authorities had been allowing about 100 migrants per day to apply for entry via Tijuana, but Washington changed its policy last week.

The Obama administration said last Thursday that Haitians who crossed into the United States illegally now face deportation to their homeland.

Some 5,000 Haitians have been allowed to enter the United States via Mexico so far this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.

Norwegian tourist bites chunk off man's ear in Berlin train

Published: 26 Sep 2016 12:44 GMT+02:00

Updated: 26 Sep 2016 12:47 GMT+02:00

Police arrested a Norwegian tourist after he reportedly bit off part of the ear of a man who tried to break up a fight.

Witnesses said that a 43-year-old tourist from Norway started to berate and provoke a German man on Sunday night while on a regional train, according to Berliner Zeitung.

Police reported on Monday that the man’s insults in English led to a physical confrontation between the two men.

A Berlin man, 37, stepped in to try to break up the fight, but the tourist then bit his right ear and tore off a piece measuring several centimetres long.

Other passengers managed to then restrain the Norwegian until the train stopped at Karlshorst station in eastern Berlin and police could arrest him.

Danish nationalists hand out cans of 'refugee spray'

Another woman, Charlotte Bech, was overcome by emotion and gave a tearful interview to the TV station. 

 

 

“They've been through so much and then they're told that they are so undesirable that we had to make a spray to use on them. One thing is the opinion that we don’t have the capacity [for refugees] or an opinion that some of them might not fit in to our culture. But to make a joke out of it is not okay,” Charlotte Bech of Silkeborg said.