Ten Things of Shape and Shift
- Women are being warned against risky cosmetic "rejuvenating" procedures to reshape and tighten the vagina.
- A man put out a fire on the world's longest pleasure pier by urinating on it.
- The US embassy in London is auctioning off unwanted items following its relocation this year to a $1bn (£762m) new facility in Vauxhall. Among the goods up for grabs is 1,200 toilet rolls.
- Facebook says it has removed 32 accounts and pages believed to have been set up to influence the mid-term US elections in November.
- Four US paramedics accused of racially profiling and failing to provide medical care to a dying black woman face a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday.
- It has emerged that the Manchester Arena bomber was rescued by the Royal Navy from Libya's civil war - three years before he killed 22 people at a pop concert in the city and months after he first came onto MI5's radar.
- Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi has been freed by Israel after eight months in jail for assaulting an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank.
- A US federal judge in Seattle has blocked the release of software that allows consumers to 3D-print firearms.
- The volume of disinformation on the internet is growing so big that it is starting to crowd out real news, experts say.
- Tsundoku is the art of buying books and never reading them.












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