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Flash floods in Greece cause devastation/REUTERS.

Noachian news nuggets picked from the press.

1. Scientists have revealed which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt.
2. UCLA basketball players caught shoplifting in China have thanked President Donald Trump for helping free them after he wondered if they would be grateful, while one of Trump's judicial nominees is a ghost hunter who has written several novellas about paranormal activities, but never tried a case.
3. Competing at the Olympics as the first US woman to wear the Islamic headscarf, American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad reveals the first Barbie with a hijab made in her honour.
4. Kevin Janson Neal, a California man, killed his wife and hid her body in their home before he fatally shot four people during a gun rampage, police have said.
5. Mental health trusts in England are restraining patients on average every 10 minutes, figures have revealed, while a study suggests depression in fathers, as well as mothers, has an impact on children.
6. Yianna Krikouki, the mayor of Mandra, has described the death and destruction caused by flash floods in central Greece as "biblical".
7. Customers in the UK apparently want more books about food, as last year 8.7 million were sold and they continue to appeal year after year.
8. Opium addicts as young as nine are found in Afghanistan as the amount of the drug produced in the country hits a new high.
9. Charges will not be brought against armed prisoners who took over a prison wing and smashed windows in a two-day riot in England in July, it has emerged.
10. Killing at least 10 people and wounding many others, four suicide bombers who included women, have detonated their explosives in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

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