Ten Things of Bear and Boar

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1. Many of the evocative descriptions used in anatomy have their roots in both the natural and (hu)man-made world.
2. The controversy over the use of the N-word has hit the headlines again after a white woman was booed at a Kendrick Lamar gig for singing it on stage.
3. Rapper Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for music, becoming the first non-classical or jazz artist to collect the award.
4. An American restaurant has just started selling chicken wings cooked in a 24-carat liquid gold marinade.
5. UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been targeted by a Russian prank caller pretending to be the new prime minister of Armenia. The UK government believes the Kremlin was behind the call.
6. US President Donald Trump has cancelled a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, blaming "tremendous anger and open hostility" from the North.
7. Trump has pardoned boxing's first black heavyweight champ, convicted in 1913 of taking his white girlfriend across state lines. Barack Obama had declined to pardon Johnson, in part due to allegations of domestic abuse.
8. US film star Morgan Freeman has apologised following allegations of sexual misconduct made by eight women and several others.
9. A woman who complained of a racist and misogynistic culture in a Scottish government department claims she was taped to a chair and gagged by two male colleagues as a warning to keep quiet.
10. A 28-year-old woman walked away with a fractured skull after managing to fight off a grizzly bear in the US state of Montana.

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