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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Ten Things of See and Say


Jennifer Lawrence poses in London/Getty
  1. Jennifer Lawrence has hit back at people who questioned the dress she wore to an outdoor photo shoot. Some critics wondered why she was wearing a revealing dress on a cold day for an event to publicise her new film Red Sparrow in London.
  2. A doctor responsible for failings before a teenager's NHS care unit death has been suspended for a year. She was responsible for 39 failings before the death of Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, in 2013.
  3. Ariana Grande has pulled out of performing a tribute to victims of the Manchester bombing at the Brit Awards due to illness.
  4. A licence to allow a boy to legally take cannabis to treat a rare form of epilepsy is being considered by the government. Six-year-old Alfie Dingley, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, suffers up to 30 violent seizures a day. The Home Office had denied the family's request for a licence as the drug is illegal in the UK.
  5. A school has banned a series of "extreme hairstyles", including one known as "Meet me at McDonald's". The style is one of six deemed "unacceptable" for boys at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy in Norfolk.
  6. The ancient population of Britain was almost completely replaced by newcomers known as Beaker people about 4,500 years ago, a study shows.
  7. A Singaporean man convicted in a megachurch fraud case was caught trying to escape by sea before starting his prison sentence, police say. The scandal was the biggest corruption case Singapore had seen in years.
  8. Indian federal police have sealed off a bank at the centre of the biggest loan fraud in the country's history, while the detained head of Latvia's central bank, Ilmars Rimsevics, is suspected of seeking a bribe, the country's anti-corruption agency says.
  9. A US man who fell to his death while searching for buried treasure in the Rocky mountains has become the fourth person to die on the hunt. He had been looking for the stash of gold and jewels allegedly hidden by a wealthy 86-year-old art dealer.
  10. The UN Secretary General has demanded an immediate end to fighting in the Eastern Ghouta in Syria, describing the rebel enclave as a "hell on earth". The Syrian military says it is trying to liberate the area from what it terms terrorists - but it has also been accused of targeting civilians.

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