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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dead at 91/AFP.

Nonconformist news nuggets picked from the press.

1. Campaigners in Saudi Arabia have hailed King Salman's decree allowing women to drive for the first time.
2. Apple and Facebook came up with a controversial solution to attract female workers to tech firms by offering to help pay to freeze their eggs.
3. Lady Lucan, the 80-year-old widow of infamous Lord Lucan who mysteriously disappeared after trying to murder her, has been found dead at her home in London, police have confirmed. Her death is being treated as unexplained.
4. Police in the US state of Virginia have arrested a woman who allegedly dressed as a clown to kill her future husband's former wife nearly 30 years ago.
5. A 60-year-old paedophile taxi driver has gone on the run on the same day he was found guilty of 16 charges, while children in schools should be taught what to do in the event of a terrorist attack, police in the UK have said.
6. Eleven men have been arrested under anti-terror laws as part of a national investigation into neo-Nazi group National Action, while Scottish Dawn and NS131, both aliases of the neo-Nazi group, are to be banned under UK terror law, the government has announced.
7. A former Serbian paramilitary commander with Australian dual citizenship known as "Captain Dragan" has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for war crimes.
8. Racial slurs have been found scrawled on dormitory doors of five black cadets at the Air Force Academy in the US state of Colorado, officials say, while the US government has announced the start of construction on eight prototype barriers for the border with Mexico, a campaign promise of Donald Trump.
9. A massive lump of congealed fat, wet wipes, and other waste that doesn't break down - known as a "fatberg" - is blocking a stretch of Baltimore sewer.
10. In Ireland, an abortion ban remains on termination in cases of rape, incest, inevitable miscarriage and fatal foetal abnormality.
11. Doctors have removed a toy traffic cone from a patient's lung - 40 years after he swallowed it.
12. When German canoe coach Stefan Henze, an Olympic silver medallist, died in a car crash in Rio, his organs were donated to the local community.
13. Ten million Britons are members of a gym.
14. For the first time since 1968 the UK can produce and sell as much sugar around the world as it would like.
15. Chocolate can be toxic for dogs.
16. Plans to build a giant shed to house 32,000 free range chickens in Carmarthenshire, Wales, have "split the local community", opponents have said.
17. An Australian restaurant has drawn controversy for hanging a dead cow over its dining tables to raise debate about eating animals, while in England a sausage roll was confiscated from a boy by his school for being unhealthy. It was given back to him at the end of the school day.
18. The producer of deep sea documentary Blue Planet 2 says the stories seen in the new series of the show are so gripping, it's like watching a "real life Pixar" movie.
19. The Bladerunner sequel has been hailed as a sci-fi masterpeice.
20. Hugh Hefner, American founder of the international adult magazine Playboy, has died at the age of 91. Playboy's most significant interviewees included civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, Beatle John Lennon, and Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro.

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