Twenty Things: Did You Know...?

Reverend Lee quit his church after publicly denouncing racism/GETTY.

Nauseating news nuggets picked from the press.

1. A BBC report has found some children of colour in the UK have spent months in foster care on the false suspicion they are victims of female genital mutilation, forcibly separating them from their families effectively because of their skin colour.
2. Social services "missed the signs" after a white female stamped to death her 21 month old baby, a serious case review has ruled.
3. Police have released images of two white men who threatened a baby with a knife during a robbery in west London.
4. A woman who threw her poo out of her date's toilet window because it "would not flush" had to be rescued after she got stuck trying to retrieve it.
5. A British law student, who was studying law in the Netherlands, died in an Ibiza hotel room after a bag of ecstasy "exploded" in her stomach, an inquest heard.
6. A British father and mother have pleaded guilty to child cruelty charges over shooting their children with a BB gun for not doing chores properly.
7. Six English girls were sent home from school when their skirts were deemed too short because of "very high uniform standards".
8. A British white male paedophile has been jailed for 16 years after admitting to "long distance rape" by blackmailing his victims into abusing young relatives in the UK, Canada, the US and Australia.
9. Four white army men suspected of being members of a banned neo-Nazi group called National Action have been arrested on terror charges in the UK. Far-right radicalisation is regarded as a growing problem by the authorities and, in some areas, is now number one on the list of ideologies for those fighting extremism.
10. The senior UK counter-terrorism officer at Scotland Yard has warned the terror threat level will remain at severe for at least the next five years after a "summer like no other", with four terror attacks in three months in London and Manchester.
11. Proposals aimed at cutting the numbers of low-skilled migrants from Europe to the UK following Brexit have been disclosed in a leaked Home Office paper. The document suggests free movement will end upon exit from the European Union in March 2019 and the UK will adopt a "more selective approach" based on the UK's economic and social needs.
12. President Obama-era 'Dreamers' scheme protecting young immigrants is to be shut down, Donald Trump's team has said. One of the people now facing deportation is Storm Harvey hero Jesus Contreras, who helped rescue flood victims in Texas.
13. A descendant of Confederate general Robert E Lee has resigned from his church after his criticism of his infamous relative sparked an outcry. Reverend Robert Lee IV, the general's distant nephew, appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards last week to call racism "America's original sin".
14. Nearly 1,300 young people in America die from gun wounds each year.
15. A Cambodian court has charged the country's opposition leader with treason, amid concerns of his collusion with the US to conspire against the Cambodian government.
16. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against North Korea is "useless", saying "they'd rather eat grass than give up their nuclear programme".
17. Azerbaijan's ruling elite operated a secret $2.8bn (£2.2bn) slush fund channelled through the UK for two years to pay off European politicians and make luxury purchases, an investigation shows.
18. Brazilian police say they are raiding a number of addresses over "strong evidence" of vote-buying in the country's 2016 Olympic bid. The raids are part of an ongoing investigation into an "international corruption scheme".
19. A council has been left red-faced after pornographic images appeared on an electronic information sign. The screen, in Telford, Shropshire, which usually shows visitors local information, was photographed on Monday showing an adult website.
20. In England and Wales - while the sale and purchase of sexual services between consenting adults is legal - many activities connected with selling sex, such as brothel keeping and soliciting, are illegal.

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