Ten Things of Coming and Going
- Some 18% of respondents under the age of 30 have had sex fewer than 10 times in the past year, a survey of 2,000 people on websites Mumsnet and Gransnet has found.
- Gay dating app Grindr has taken a stand against discrimination on its platform and says no user is entitled to tear another down for "being who they are".
- Human dignity is a concept with remarkably shallow historical roots, says philosophy professor Remy Debes, and it is presently endangered.
- President Trump recommended building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe's migrant crisis, Spain's foreign minister says.
- Martin Sellner is the European far right's newest poster boy who delivers a monologue about the evils of multiculturalism and how Muslims want to take over Europe. He insists that his movement is non-racist and non-violent, but the refugees his group actively persecute are not convinced.
- Two 15-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of planning to carry out far-right terrorism offences in Kent, in England.
- In Japan, tattoos have long been associated with the notorious yakuza crime syndicates and inked tourists can find themselves barred from traditional communal hot springs, or onsens.
- Warmer weather conditions in western Greece have led to the eerie spectacle of a 300m-long spiderweb in Aitoliko.
- A US restaurant is using marijuana to sedate lobsters before killing them. Charlotte's Legendary Lobster Pound, a restaurant in Maine, says the process is more humane as it lessens their pain before death.
- British TV host and comedy writer Denis Norden has died aged 96, his family has said.












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