Ten Things of Fun and Unfunny

Sir Patrick Stewart is to reprise Star Trek role/Gabe Ginsberg

1. Sir Patrick Stewart is boldly going where he has been before - by reprising the Star Trek role of Jean-Luc Picard.
2. Russia has appointed the US actor Steven Seagal as a special envoy to improve ties with the United States.
3. Russian police have detained at least 25 LGBT rights activists during a protest in St Petersburg to promote the rights of sexual minorities.
4. A watchdog is threatening NHS England with legal action if it does not begin offering fertility treatments to transgender patients as standard.
5. Draped in a rainbow flag and blowing kisses, Britney Spears wowed a crowd of 57,000 at Brighton Pride.
6. US First Lady Melania Trump has backed basketball player LeBron James, hours after her husband made insulting remarks about him on Twitter.
7. Police in Romania are investigating anti-semitic graffiti found on the walls of the house where Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel was born.
8. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says he has survived an assassination attempt involving explosive drones.
9. Barry Chuckle, one half of the comedy duo the Chuckle Brothers, has died aged 73 after a short period of ill health.
10. A grandfather in Derby says praying to his cucumber has helped it grow to a potential world-record size.

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