Twenty Things: Did You Know...?

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Nefarious news nuggets picked from the press.

1. There is a serial cat killer stalking the UK.
2. Hartlepool in England is known by many as the place where a monkey was mistaken for a French spy and hanged.
3. The London Underground bombing is the fifth terror attack of 2017 in the UK. And it's the only one this year in which nobody has died.
4. Buckingham Palace has seen a bloodless summertime coup of the Queen's top courtier, in a power struggle where the Queen's eldest son, who turns 70 next year, becomes the longest serving heir apparent in British history.
5. A candidate of Germany's right-wing nationalist party has said the country should "be proud of" its soldiers in both world wars and people should no longer "reproach" Germans for World War Two.
6. Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has "a last chance" to halt an army offensive that has forced hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Rohingya to flee abroad, the UN head has said. The UN has warned the offensive could amount to ethnic cleansing.
7. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to reach the country's nuclear goals, according to state media.
8. The Spanish government is poised to seize Catalan finances. The state has given the regional government in Catalonia 48 hours to abandon "illegal" referendum plans or lose budgetary powers.
9. The Vatican has recalled a diplomat from Washington DC amid controversy over a child pornography investigation. As a diplomat, the priest has immunity from prosecution in the US. Meanwhile, a furore over a paedophile's links to PM Bjarni Benediktsson has led to the collapse of Iceland's ruling coalition.
10. A statue of Confederate General Lee has been removed from a Dallas city park under police guard as the perennial debate about America's tormented racial legacy is recharged.
11. A US college campus white security guard accidentally shot himself and made up a story about a non-existent black gunman to hide the blunder, police say.
12. A white former Missouri policeman has been found not guilty of murdering a black man by shooting him five times after a car chase. Protests have broken out as a result.
13. A drink driver who mowed down a couple on a Tinder date, leaving one dead and the other in a coma, has been jailed.
14. Police at Louisiana State University are treating the death of an 18-year-old student as a "possible hazing incident", campus officials say.
15. Twenty people have been arrested on Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar for alleged homosexuality, police say. In Tanzania, gay male sex is punishable by up to 30 years in jail.
16. The Professional Footballers' Association wants a fresh investigation into racism allegations surrounding England women manager Mark Sampson. He asked a black team mate to make sure her Nigerian relatives did not bring the Ebola virus to an England game at Wembley in 2014.
17. Cologne criticised security at Arsenal following their Europa League game when Thursday's match was delayed by an hour because thousands of Cologne fans arrived at Emirates Stadium without tickets.
18. Caribbean islands still coming to terms with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma are preparing themselves for a possible second major storm in two weeks with Hurricane Maria.
19. Actor Harry Dean Stanton, known for his roles in films like The Godfather II, Alien and Cool Hand Luke, has died at the age of 91.
20. A fly sees the world in slow motion.

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