Twenty Things: Did You Know...?

Everyday cafe life in London celebrated/JIM GROVER.

Newsworthy news nuggets picked from the press.

1. Cafe Delight and its Turkish owners have been serving the London community for 21 years. To celebrate, photographs were taken by local award-winning photographer Jim Grover of everyday life in the cafe.
2. The British Museum has apologised after a tweet from one of its curators saw it accused of racism and dumbing down. The row escalated after Jane Portal, from the London institution's Asia department, said "sometimes Asian names can be confusing" on exhibition labels.
3. Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to miss next week's UN General Assembly debate as criticism of her handling of the Rohingya Muslim crisis grows.
4. A child under 16 is raped every 155 minutes, a child under 10 every 13 hours in India, while football culture is being investigated for the grooming and sexual abuse of young boys in England.
5. A photo of a 12-year-old boy shown without his eye was removed by Instagram for "breaching guidelines".
6. The hero of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was meant to be black, the author's widow has revealed.
7. A policeman has been filmed mocking the group Black Lives Matter and telling a man he'd "be the first one I'd shoot".
8. Noxolo Ntusi grappled with armed attackers to hold on to her master's thesis during a robbery in Johannesburg, while three women have filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against technology giant Google, alleging it pays women less than men for comparable work.
9. Hillary Clinton blames Barack Obama for losing the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.
10. Research shows that hurricanes with female names are more likely to hurt more people than those with males names. Scientists think that's because people find female names less threatening.
11. Hurricane Irma evacuees are returning to scenes of devastation in the Florida Keys with reports of a quarter of homes destroyed on the low-lying islands.
12. For four days running, towns and cities across Russia have been hit by a wave of hoax bomb alerts.
13. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish member of Israel's parliament has resigned after prominent rabbis criticised him for attending his gay nephew's wedding abroad. Five rabbis accused Mr Guetta of desecrating God's name and demanded that the religious Shas party fire him.
14. US Republican senator Ted Cruz who once defended a ban on masturbation appears to have "liked" a pornographic video on social media, while US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asked to use a government plane for his European honeymoon last month.
15. The space race is no longer between countries but between companies.
16. South Korea is planning to assassinate North Korea's Kim Jong-un, while North Korea has fired another missile over Japan, the South Korean and Japanese governments say.
17. Alexander the Great bathed his battle wounds with saffron, known as "red gold", and drank saffron tea.
18. With its Nescafe instant coffee and Nespresso brands, Swiss food and drink multi-national Nestle ranks as the world's biggest coffee company.
19. The orchid is one of the biggest families of flowering plants. Many are grown for their beautiful flowers, while others are of economic importance, such as the source of the food flavouring, vanilla.
20. Berries are appearing on plants and hedgerows early this year in England because of the unusual weather patterns. The combination of a warm, dry spring, followed by July and August rains, has led to a plethora of berries, according to horticulturalists.

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