President Barack Obama Formally Backs Hillary Clinton

President Barack Obama formally endorsed Hillary Clinton in a video released Thursday afternoon.

"I know how hard this job can be. That's why I know Hillary will be so good at it. In fact, I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office," he says in the video, which was tweeted by Clinton's official Twitter account.

"I have seen her judgment, I have seen her toughness, I have seen her commitment to our values up close," he said of his former Democratic rival and first secretary of state.

Obama and Clinton will appear together in their first joint campaign trip together next Wednesday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Clinton's campaign said.

The endorsement came just hours after Obama held a meeting at the White House with Clinton rival Bernie Sanders, who told reporters after the summit that he will remain in the race through the District of Columbia primary next week but indicated that he will meet with Clinton soon "to see how we can work together to defeat Donald Trump and to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent."

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, David Beckham travels to Africa to help children suffering from HIV

As a father of four, Beckham said it was hard to hear the children's stories about the daily challenges they face, which are now being made so much worse by a devastating drought.

Swaziland has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, and the devastating drought is only making things worse.

Beckham, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, said the African children he interacted with were the same age as his own kids.

According to him, children in Swaziland had one or both of their parents die from HIV/AIDS. Some of the kids also carry the deadly disease, as reported by Belfast Telegraph.

To help these impoverished children, Beckham founded a special project called 7: The David Beckham UNICEF Fund last year. The 7 Fund, which marks Beckham's 10^th year as one of UNICEF's goodwill ambassadors, aims to help children in dire need of resources.

Beckham, 41, said he launched 7 Fund because he wishes to "build a safer world for children" especially those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Belfast Telegraph noted. He had through his Instagram account, urged the international community to help him provide food, medicine and clean water to those desperate kids.

Leila Gharagozloo-Pakkala, UNICEF's regional director for eastern and southern Africa, said the drought that has swept the region during the past two years has negatively impacted harvests and water resources. HIV-affected communities are susceptible to the scarce food supply, malnutrition and low income, with 26 million children likely to die from hunger according to UNICEF.

Boxing hero Muhammad Ali dies at age 74

World renowned boxer, Muhammad Ali died at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being admitted on Thursday.

He was suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease.

The funeral is expected to take place in Ali's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his family said in a statement.

Crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC, Ali was noted for his pre- and post-fight talk and bold fight predictions just as much as his boxing skills inside the ring.

But he was also a civil rights campaigner and poet who transcended the bounds of sport, race and nationality.

Asked how he would like to be remembered, he once said: "As a man who never sold out his people. But if that's too much, then just a good boxer. I won't even mind if you don't mention how pretty I was."

Ali turned professional immediately after the Rome Olympics and rose through the heavyweight ranks, delighting crowds with his showboating, shuffling feet and lightning reflexes.

George Foreman and Floyd Mayweather  pour out their tributes

"Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest human beings I have ever met. No doubt he was one of the best people to have lived in this day and age." - George Foreman, Ali's friend and rival in the Rumble in the Jungle

"There will never be another Muhammad Ali. The black community all around the world, black people all around the world, needed him. He was the voice for us. He's the voice for me to be where I'm at today." - Floyd Mayweather, world champion boxer across five divisions

Baby swapped at birth by hospital returns home after nine months

Parents to the swapped baby

A baby accidentally swapped at birth by the hospital has finally returned home, after more than a year. 

Only now have British dad Richard Cushworth and his Salvadoran wife Mercy been allowed to travel back to their US home with their son Moses, after DNA tests proved he had been swapped with another boy by a hospital in El Salvador.

Both babies were returned to their real parents eight months ago, but Richard and Mercy needed to wait for Moses’s birth certificate before they could take him out of El Salvador.

‘The thought that the baby I had been nursing, taken care of, loving him, bathing him – that he was not mine,’ Mercy told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. ‘And then I had another thought which came with it – where’s my baby?’

Inspector-General of Police Orders Disarmament of IPOB Activisits

Following the manifestation of the disposition of the armed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) activists to undertake premeditated attacks on Police officers engage in operations aimed at restoring public order in States in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zone of the country, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase, fdc, NPM has directed the Assistant Inspector General of Police and the Commissioners of Police in the affected area to disarm members of the group operating firearms immediately.

The IGP noted that the targeted attacks on Police personnel, who have been performing their statutory functions in the most professional and civil manner since the latest resurgence disorder, portrays the IPOB activists who are orchestrating the insurrection as having crossed the threshold in their misguided attempt to test the common will of the nation. 

IGP Arase, while condemning the killing by members of IPOB, also directed the arrest of any member of the group found in possession of firearm and bring him/her to deserved justice, while all IPOB activists arrested in connection with the killing of the Policemen should be charged to court for murder.

"Meanwhile, the Nigeria Police Force will continue to diligently work towards eliminating any threat to internal security and assures Nigerians of its commitment to their safety and security," said the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP OLABISI KOLAWOLE.