Ten Things of Top and Bottom

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1. Aretha Franklin, the "queen of soul" known for hits like Respect and Think, has died in Detroit at the age of 76.
2. Rapper Stormzy has announced that he will fund two black British students to go to the University of Cambridge.
3. Ophelia has joined the high-IQ society Mensa at only three years old with an IQ of 171.
4. A Swedish Muslim woman has won compensation after her job interview was ended when she refused a handshake.
5. Days after a man was arrested on suspicion of terror offences in London, a mosque in Birmingham has been targeted with ball bearing catapults.
6. A leading lawyer and businesswoman say they are quitting the UK as they no longer feel safe because of anti-Semitism.
7. South Africa has been gripped by the mysterious death of former police officer Mark Minnie, just a week after he revealed horrific details about an alleged paedophile ring in the once-feared white-minority government that portrayed itself as being made up of devout Christian men.
8. Thieves stole a paramedic's purse and keys along with medical supplies when they broke into an ambulance while its crew was attending a 999 call.
9. Renowned Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam has been jailed in the wake of mass demonstrations by young people earlier this month fed up with unsafe roads after two children were killed by a speeding bus.
10. India's patent office has rejected a plea by a Canadian company to patent a vibrator because sex toys violate "public order and morality".

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