Ten Things of Right and Rude

Justin Bieber is making an album of "Christian appropriate" songs/Getty

1. According to reports, Justin Bieber is recording a religious concept album.
2. Cosmopolitan, one of the world's largest magazines, is being removed from view at thousands of checkouts by the US supermarket giant Walmart for being "hyper-sexualised".
3. The 2020 US Census will ask respondents whether or not they are US citizens for the first time since 1950.
4. Two white officers who shot and killed a Louisiana black man in 2016 will not face criminal charges, officials say.
5. South Africa is still badly affected by racism, almost 24 years after white minority rule ended.
6. In 1978 a small community called Wahat al-Salam, Neve Shalom - meaning "oasis of peace" - was founded by four families, Jews and Arabs, on a hill-top between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
7. A Google search of the phrase "Are the French rude" reveals dozens of tourists' bad experiences; waiters seem to top the list of offenders.
8. The French police officer who died after he offered himself in exchange for a hostage in an Islamist attack is being honoured in Paris.
9. The first funerals are taking place for those who died in the shopping centre fire in the Russian city of Kemerovo. At least 64 people died in the blaze on Sunday, 41 of them children. Relatives say dozens of people are still missing.
10. A video of a wild elephant in India "smoking" from a fire has baffled wildlife experts around the world.

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