Twenty Things: Did You Know...?

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Nitty and gritty news nuggets picked from the press.

1. A new approach to preventing migraines can cut the number and severity of attacks, two clinical trials show.
2. Net migration to the UK fell by nearly a third to 230,000 in the year to June, new figures show. It is the first time that a full year of data has been available since the UK voted to leave the EU last June.
3. Allegations that Google unlawfully harvested information from 5.4 million UK users by bypassing privacy settings on their iPhones is to be heard in court in the first mass legal action of its kind in the UK.
4. Latest ballistic missile tests in North Korea has had the US urging all nations to cut diplomatic and trade ties with the rogue state, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the US of seeking to provoke North Korea into stepping up its nuclear missile programme.
5. Suspension over anti-Semitic abuse of a UK Labour Party member has come only after a councillor accused the party on social media of failing to act.
6. Easily offended more than ever before? Some commetators believe that making offences publicly known will create a more culturally aware, progressive society.
7. X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing are two UK reality shows whose Saturday night rivalry is years old.
8. In Malawi, a ring inserted in the vagina is helping women defend themselves against the spread of HIV - even when their partner refuses to wear a condom.
9. Shadowhunters star Dominic Sherwood says he's "truly, truly sorry" for using a homophobic phrase. Shadowhunters is a teen supernatural drama with LGBT representation available on Netflix in the UK.
10. Revelations that a long lost Himalayan river departed before the Indus civilisation emerged has come as a suprise to many. Other early urban societies of the time, in Egypt and Mesopotamia, certainly benefitted from the resource offered by a big, actively flowing river.
11. Emotional abuse is against the law: In 2015 the Serious Crime Act of England and Wales was changed to recognise controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship.
12. Asa Hutchinson, a young British expat in Dubai faces prison after witnessing a fight in a hotel lobby, a campaign group says.
13. Linda Tripp, the White House employee who helped expose the relationship between her colleague Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, said housekeepers were constantly concerned about the President were "afraid to bend over in his presence".
14. Losing face by condoning genocide: Pope Francis has failed to mention the Rohingya refugee crisis that erupted in August in Myanmar in a bid to save his Christian followers the same fate at the hands of Buddhists and the military.
15. You probably had no clue it existed, but there is an obscure Monopoly rule that changes the whole game.
16. Young children were saved by a nursery worker in Manchester, who is being hailed as "amazing" after "very heroically" pushing three children out of the way of an oncoming car and being hit herself.
17. US psychologists say brain immaturity during adolescence could explain why some teenagers fail to respond to incentives such as cash rewards.
18. Cricketer Alex Hepburn has been charged with two counts of rape in England.
19. Killer Levi Bellfield is alleged to have confessed to one of the UK's most notorious murder cases for which another man has been imprisoned for over two decades.
20. Yemen's allied Houthi rebels and supporters of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh have clashed, as tensions between them grow, while an urgent evacuation plan has been devised for migrants facing abuse in Libyan detention camps.

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