Ten Things of Spell and Sell

A deer in Richmond, London/Weather Watcher Gareth 401

1. As England is gripped by a freezing spell dubbed the Beast from the East, creatures great and small are braving the snow blizzards and biting winds.
2. A teenager tried to kill Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to New Zealand in 1981 but it was covered up, declassified official documents confirm.
3. The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is advertising for a repatriation research specialist by using a character from the Black Panther movie.
4. Jay-Z's taste for a French brandy is one of the main reasons he's now the richest rapper for the first time. Around the world people are drinking more of the stuff - with more than a 10% growth in a year.
5. Britney Spears's fragrances have been raking in hundreds of millions of dollars over the last 14 years, despite her dwindling presence in the top 10. It's estimated she makes around $50m [£36m] from her fragrances alone every year.
6. An Indian magazine that published a picture of a model breastfeeding a baby as its cover photo has sharply divided opinion on social media.
7. Female students in India's capital Delhi are protesting against harassment during the popular Hindu festival of Holi. Several women are scared walking around Holi because they are hit by water balloons filled with semen.
8. Iran has detained 35 women for trying to attend a football match.
9. Just 34% of women in Turkey work, by far the lowest of the 35 industrialised countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) where the average is 63%.
10. Oscar-nominated films with a woman in the starring role are more profitable than their male-led counterparts.

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