CONVICTED MURDERER, OSCAR PISTORIUS'S PICTURE USED BY ORGANISERS OF RIO DE JANEIRO PARALYMPICS FOR ADVERTISEMENT CAMPAIGN

Organisers of this years's Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro used murdering South African runner Oscar Pistorius to advertise this summer's game in a highly embarrassing gaffe.

The official Rio2016 Twitter account posted a video of Pistorius winning the 400 Metre final at the 2012 games in London.

However since then, Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and had his manslaughter conviction overturned and upgraded to murder.

The international Paralympic committee ruled in 2014 that Pistorius would be banned from the Rio games because of the original manslaughter conviction.

However, nobody from the Rio2016 organisation was available to confirm how the shamed athlete had made it into their high profile advertising campaign.

MISSING UKRAINIAN BOY, 10, BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED FOUND LIVING IN A SHACK HE BUILT HIMSELF

A 10-year-old boy who went missing from his home in Ukraine six months ago has been found in a homemade shack by the Dnipro river banks where he had been living by eating scraps in bins and recycling junk to earn a little money.

Bogdan Furman vanished from his home in Cherkasy, a city in central Ukraine, and went off the radar despite a massive police search.

Police believed he had fallen prey to a paedophile killer, and prepared the boy's family for the worst.

But January 2016, police found his hideout in a shabby shack hidden by the snow on the banks of river Dnipro.

The boy told police that he ran away on his own free will because he was unhappy at home and often beaten up by his drunken mother and father.

'Basically he was an unhappy child. He wasn't taken by a peadophile - he ran away to try to find some happiness,' Aleksandr Vilganiuk, a police spokesman, said after interviewing him.

In the streets, Furman befriended a 24-year-old homeless man who became a sort of second father to him. 'He was like a father to me, I was calling him my dad,' he said.

'He always asked me if I was hungry, always was worrying if I am cold,' he said. When I was living with my parents every time I would be a little late from school my real father would beat me up.'

Bogdan's older sister tried to defend their mother.

'I can understand my mother, she is not a bad person, but she would get drunk occasionally, she didn't have an easy life.'

Nadya Furman, his mother, said; ' I am very thankful to the police and all the people that were looking for my boy, I am very grateful for his return and I want to change for the better.'

Bogdan has been returned to his family....but the social services are keeping a close eye on him.

343KG ARGENTINIAN WOMAN PLEAD TO GET 50KG TUMOUR THAT CAUSED HER TO GAIN EXCESSIVE WEIGHT REMOVED

A morbidly obese Argentinian woman with an 8 stone (50kg) tumour  in her leg has made a public plea for her life after being told she is too heavy to be taken to hospital for treatment.

Isabella Amaral, who weighs 54 stones (343kg), says her weight gain spiralled because of the gigantic lymphoma in her left leg, which needs urgent treatment.

The 30-year-old depends entirely on her friends and family for support and urgently has accused medics of waiting for her to die as she is being refused transport to hospital.

Amaral told local media: ' They say it is impossible to move somebody of my weight in an ambulance, but I know it's a lie because they have done it with other people in my condition, they are leaving me to die!'

Isabella is unable to move from the bed and constantly needs care from her mother, two brothers and family friends, who help to bathe, feed her and keep her company day and night.

However it is understood that the government of Rosario in the Argentine province of Santa Fe, are involved in a dispute and are impeding her from being taken to hospital in an ambulance.

According to Argentinian news site Cronica, Isabella went to hospital repeatedly when she was mobile, but they did not operate on the tumour in time.

She says she now needs specialist care that she can't afford to pay fro in a private clinic and her hometown of Rosario doesn't have the resources to pay for the treatment she needs.

'I have no life, I breathe because the air is free, I need to be transferred immediately', she added in an interview. Isabella said that nobody wants to take the responsibility for operating on her because she 'frightens the doctors and they don't want to see me'.

She said that her tumour slowed her down and eventually immobilized her and that her weight had spiralled at the same time.

'I don't want to be evaluated over  the phone or from a photo,' the distraught woman added.

'I don't believe in the virtual stuff. The doctors who come to my house get scared, they don't even want to look at me, but I want to live, I need my health.'

The distraught young woman has told her story to the media in a bid to get the local government to change their minds and send an ambulance so she can be seen to.

She added: ' I don't want money or donations. I want the whole world to no that they are refusing me the possibility to be attended to like I should be. They are pushing me to my death and they are going to achieve it.'

A cyclist moaning about logs on his bike path was left seemingly calm when he realized that the debris was actually a crocodile or alligator.

The cyclist, wearing a GoPro, is seen riding down a bike path when he begins to complain about logs and debris left in the road.

Suddenly, however as he approaches the roadblock, he realizes that the debris is actually a living reptile.

'I'm sick and tired of people putting these logs across the pa... oh that's a crocodile, Or alligator, Whatever,'

The man believed to be in the United States, took another look at the large reptile sitting on the path and then carried on with his bike ride.

CRUISE SHIP WORKER CRUSHED TO DEATH

Terrifying footage emerged of a 'sheet' of blood pouring down the front of a cruise ship elevator after it apparently crushed an electrician to death.

The electrician - named as Jose Sandoval Opazo, 66, by Miami Dade police - as working on the elevator on Sunday 27th December evening when the accident took place on board the Cruise Ship.

A second person appears to have been inside the elevator, and had to run out through the pouring blood.

Matt Davis, and eye witness
described what he witnessed on the ship's 10th floor as the 'nightmare after Christmas'.

'To look and see the elevator with just blood coming don like a sheet, and not stopping... it as a real life scene of The Shining,' he told Fox 4.

Mr Davis, who had treated his wife Susan and their children to a last minute cruise, described the sound as something like 'rainfall'.

Mr. Davis and his family with the other passengers on the 859-foot-long cruise liner were on the final leg of a three-day cruise from Miami.

The exact cause of the accident is still unknown, but an investigation is underway.

RUSSIAN BLOGGER JAILED FOR URGING PEOPLE TO PROTEST AGAINST HIGH TRANSPORT FARES AND CORRUPT OFFICIALS

A blogger has been jailed for five years in Russia for urging people to protest against high transport fares. Vadim Tyumentsev, 35, from the Siberian region of Tomsk, was also banned from using the Internet for three years after his sentence ends.

He had angered local authorities in Tomsk with a series of blogs in which he accused them of corruption and incompetence.

A statement from Tomsk's regional court said Tyumentsev had urged people to overthrow the authorities, a reference to an appeal he made for people to attend an unsanctioned meeting to protest against a rise in local bus fares.

His lawyer said the calls to participate in the rally cannot be deemed extremist and local officials were public figures so liable to receive public criticism according to Russian legislation.

He had also sharply criticized pro-Kremlin separatists in eastern Ukraine, saying he did not see why ordinary Russians should go and fight with them.

The conflict, between pro-Russian militants and Ukraine on the territory of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, has left some 9,000 people dead and more than 20,000 wounded.

In a video post, he had urged people to take hostile action against Ukrainian refugees, complaining about their presence in Tomsk and saying they should be deported.

For that, prosecutors accused him of 'animosity towards citizens residing on the territory of Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine and of 'inciting racial hatred towards people with refugee status in Russia'.

He said he will appeal after the verdict was made.

The Memorial human rights group said the jail sentence was 'outrageous and called for the verdict to be overturned.


Thats just how it is in Russian, you just can run your mouth without consequences.

THIS MIGHT BE THE NEXT WAY TO TREAT OBESITY WITHOUT GOING THROUGH RISK OF SURGERY

A hi-tech balloon that fills up the stomach and then pops itself after four months could help to counter obesity.

The new type of gastric balloon, which has just been approved for use in the UK, is designed to help those who find it impossible to lose weight through normal diets.

But unlike existing products, no surgery is required to insert or remove it.

Instead, the patient swallows a tiny capsule containing the deflated Elipse balloon, which is made from a delicate polymer film.

Attached to the capsule is a catheter - a thin tube. Once the capsule has reached the stomach, a doctor fills the balloon with water through the catheter and then tugs on the tube to detach it.

The filled Elipse occupies a large part of the stomach, reducing appetite and improving the patient's chances of shedding digestive system and allowing the patient to return to a normal calorie intake.

The remains of the balloon pass out through the digestive system.

Most existing gastric balloons rely on a surgeon placing the device in the stomach using an internal probe while the patient is sedated or under anaesthetic.

At the end of its life, it has to be removed the same way. Last year a balloon that can be swallowed, called Obalon became available privately in the UK. Bu it too requires surgical removal.

According to the World Obesity Forum, the number of overweight and obese Britons is set to rise from the current 32million to 36million by 2025, with four million classed as severely obese. Gastric bypass surgery is seen as an effective, if drastic solution but can be too high a risk for extremely large patients.

The Elipse balloon, developed by US firm Allurion Technologies, recently received marketing approval for the UK and Europe.