Ronaldo free-kick breaks boy's wrist at AFC Bournemouth

A young football fan whose wrist was broken by a Cristiano Ronaldo free-kick at Bournemouth has received a shirt signed by the player and his Real Madrid team-mates.

AFC Bournemouth took on the Spanish giants in a pre-season friendly at the Goldsands Stadium on Saturday.

The match attracted thousands of fans.

Among them was Charlie Silverwood, 11, who early in the match was hit by a Ronaldo free-kick and later had to undergo surgery on his wrist.

'No front teeth'

Charlie, from Christchurch, said: "It was Ronaldo's first free-kick of the game. It went straight for me so I blocked the ball with the palm of my left hand and the force, I suppose, reverberated up my arm and broke my wrist."

First aiders at the ground put his arm in a sling and told him to go to hospital.

Real Madrid is a once in a lifetime opportunity - seeing them play your local club - so I watched the rest of the match, mostly in pain considering I still had the sling, and afterwards I then went to hospital," he said.

Charlie has since had an operation to manipulate his wrist back into place and must spend the rest of the school holidays in plaster.

He said: "If I hadn't blocked it with the palm of my hand I would have no front teeth. It definitely had to be some speed otherwise it wouldn't have broken my wrist - 45 mph would be a safe guess I think."

Since the incident, he has been visited by Bournemouth legend Steven Fletcher, who brought him the signed Real Madrid shirt.

Charlie said the president of Real Madrid had also phoned to tell him a signed Ronaldo shirt was on the way.

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George is the name!

Royal baby: William and Kate name their son George

The name of the new prince has been announced two days after his birth

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their son George Alexander Louis, Kensington Palace has said.

The third in line to the throne, who was born on Monday at 16:24 BST, will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.

It is thought the Queen was told of Prince George's name when she met him for the first time on Wednesday.

The family are at the Middleton home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, after spending a night at Kensington Palace.

George was the bookmakers' favourite for the first name of the prince.

The duke and duchess had been expected to pick a traditional royal name for their son, who was born at St Mary's Hospital in London, weighing 8lbs 6oz.

Royal infants usually have historical names which are passed down through the generations.

There have been six King Georges up to now, most recently the Queen's father, although his first name was Albert and he was known to his family as Bertie.

The name Louis is Prince William's fourth name and is likely to be a tribute to Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle and the last British Viceroy of India before independence in 1947.

Lord Mountbatten and William's father the Prince of Wales were very close. Known by the Royal Family as Uncle Dickie, he was assassinated by the IRA in August 1979.

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Whales narrowly miss divers in California

Two divers snorkelling off the coast of California got closer then they expected to a pair of feeding humpback whales.

The 50 tonne mammals were only a few feet away when they popped up to the surface to catch some fish.

You can see in the video just how narrowly the whales missed the divers!

Luckily, the whales and the divers were all unharmed.

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Two ocean scuba divers have narrowly missed being swallowed whole by two humpback whales that shot up from the deep to chase fish right next to where the divers were floating.

A group of scuba divers have narrowly missed being swallowed by two humpbacks frolicking off the coast of California.

Vision on YouTube shows two divers near Avila Beach shooting underwater footage as the whales broke the surface to feed.

A shot below the surface shows the divers surrounded by a school of small sardines. Suddenly the water around them begins swirling and bubbling as the fish make a dash to the surface followed by two humpbacks who chase them out of the water with their mouths gaping just metres away from the divers.

The video shows the divers swim frantically for their nearby boat, as others on the vessel laugh at their panic.

"Holy shi..," says one of the divers as he flees.

Charter boat owner Shawn Stambuck was also filming the divers from his boat."You're going to have to do more to clean that wet suit," he is heard telling the divers.

From http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/18111909/humpbacks-nearly-swallow-divers/

Royal baby: Town crier announces news of Prince William and Catherine's son

The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST, weighing 8lb 6oz.

The birth of a son to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has been announced to crowds outside St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London.

The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST, weighing 8lb 6oz.

The duchess and the baby are said to be "doing well" and will stay in hospital overnight.

The royal baby was born in St Mary's Hospital in London and is third in the line to the throne.

A town crier ascended the steps to the Lindo Wing, where the duchess gave birth, to proclaim the news to the assembled well-wishers and media.

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