LOS ANGELES, Aug 8:  Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian shared a naked pregnant throwback photo from her first pregnancy via Instagram.
In the photo, Kardashian, who is now pregnant with her third child, recreates the iconic pose Demi Moore made on the 1991 cover of Vanity Fair, reported Us magazine.
Instead of placing Moore’s cover alongside her mirror image, Kardashian, 35, instead shared an identical picture of her own mother, Kris Jenner, pregnant and naked.
“I got it from my mama,” Kardashian, who is already mother to Mason, 4, and Penelope, 2, wrote.
While the eldest Kardashian sister has yet to pose nude during her current pregnancy, she bared her bump for followers via Instagram in a gold bikini while in the Hamptons on July 7. (PTI)

GAZA CITY, Aug 8:  Two rockets fired by Gaza militants slammed into southern Israel before dawn today, as a 72-hour truce appeared to be reaching an end.
And two senior Hamas officials said the Palestinian militant movement would not extend a 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza that expires at 0500 GMT today, accusing Israel of rejecting their demands for a truce.
A leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller faction in Gaza that is also present in Cairo-mediated truce talks, confirmed the factions had decided not to extend the ceasefire.
Israel had said earlier it was ready to “indefinitely” extend the ceasefire.
Then at about 0130 GMT the army sent out a text message to journalists, saying: “Just now, two rockets fired from Gaza hit southern Israel. No injuries reported”.
“Terrorists have violated the cease-fire,” it added on its official Twitter site.
There was no immediate Israeli military response, an army spokeswoman told AFP.
Hamas representatives and those of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel had been meeting in Cairo for talks with Egyptian mediators on extending the ceasefire.
A senior Palestinian official earlier accused Israel of procrastinating, warning it could lead to a resumption of the fighting when the deadline runs out.
“The Israeli delegation is proposing extending the ceasefire while refusing a number of the Palestinian demands,” he said, without elaborating.
A spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, warned yesterday that fighting would resume if their demands were not met, first and foremost to open a sea port to the blockaded Palestinian enclave.
“If there is an agreement, it will be possible to extend the truce, but if there is not, we will ask the delegation to withdraw from the talks,” a spokesman using the nom-de-guerre Abu Obeida said in a televised address.
Four weeks of bloodshed between Israel and Hamas killed 1,890 Palestinians, and 67 people on the Israeli side, almost all soldiers.
Ayman Taha, a former spokesman for Hamas – the son of one of the group’s founders – was found dead yesterday in a neighbourhood of the city that was heavily bombed by Israel, the movement said.
UN figures indicate that 73 per cent of the Palestinian victims – or 1,354 people – were civilians. Of that number, at least 429 were children.
Hamas and Palestine Liberation Organisation officials laid out a number of demands, starting with the lifting of Israel’s eight-year blockade on Gaza.
They also want the release of around 125 key prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Despite the withdrawal of all its troops from Gaza by the time the three-day truce began early on Tuesday, Israel has retained forces along the border who are ready to respond to any resumption of fighting. (AGENCIES)

WASHINGTON, Aug 8:  Asserting that the US has made the world a more secure and prosperous place, President Barack Obama has said that the American leadership is necessary to underwrite the global security and prosperity.
“My fellow Americans, the world is confronted by many challenges. And while America has never been able to right every wrong, America has made the world a more secure and prosperous place,” he said in a late night address to the nation, wherein he explained his decision to authorise military airstrikes in Iraq.
“Our leadership is necessary to underwrite the global security and prosperity that our children and our grandchildren will depend upon. We do so by adhering to a set of core principles. We do whatever is necessary to protect our people,” Obama explained in his brief 9-minute speech.
“We support our allies when they’re in danger. We lead coalitions of countries to uphold international norms. We strive to stay true to the fundamental values – the desire to live with basic freedom and dignity – that is common to human beings wherever they are. That’s why people all over the world look to the United States of America to lead,” Obama said.
Thousands of families from the Yazidi minority community are reportedly trapped in the mountains in Iraq without food and water after fleeing the rampaging fighters of the Islamic State, also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS.
Obama said over the last several years, his administration has brought the vast majority of US troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I’ve been careful to resist calls to turn time and again to our military, because America has other tools in our arsenal than our military. We can also lead with the power of our diplomacy, our economy and our ideals,” he said.
“But when the lives of American citizens are at risk, we will take action. That’s my responsibility as Commander-in- Chief. And when many thousands of innocent civilians are faced with the danger of being wiped out, and we have the capacity to do something about it, we will take action. That is our responsibility as Americans…,” said the US President.
Obama acknowledged that many of his countrymen would be rightly concerned about any American military action in Iraq, even limited strikes like these.
“I understand that. I ran for this office in part to end our war in Iraq and welcome our troops home, and that’s what we’ve done,” he said.
“As Commander-in-Chief, I will not allow the US to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. And so even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq,” he said. (PTI)