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01:53:00
The Emmy Awards have been dished out in Los Angeles and records have been broken. Game of Thrones has taken 12 awards, while Veep actress Julia-Louis Dreyfus received her sixth Emmy.
But there are other moments worthy of note - some of which have caused a bit of a stir online.
Here are five of them.

Can a sister feel beautiful?

How do you deal with evil and make bad things disappear? Leslie Jones, the Ghostbusters star who was forced to quit Twitter in July following racist abuse, suggests locking things in a box.
Jones tackled the serious issue of online harassment with humour while requesting the assistance of Ernst & Young, the accounting company charged with protecting the secrets of the award ceremony.
"Since you're good at keeping things safe," she said, "I have a job for you: my Twitter account. Put that in the vault, please!"
Jones, 48, starred in the remake of the hit 1980s film, but the decision to cast all women was criticised by some Ghostbusters fans.
She received abuse on Twitter and was later targeted by hackers. Copies of her passport and driving licence were published online, as well as personal photos from her iCloud account.
"You all are over here using your skills to protect best voiceover in a French sitcom. Meanwhile, I'm butt naked on CNN," said Jones.
Known for turning up her nose when in character but failing to turn up at all at the Emmys, Dame Maggie Smith managed to create a little drama at the ceremony, despite - or rather because of - her absence.
After winning outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for her role as Violet Crawley in Downton Abbey, she was called out by host Jimmy Kimmel for failing to show - again.
"Maggie, if you want this, it'll be in the lost and found," he said.
Kimmel went on to suggest that when Dame Maggie hears she has been nominated for an Emmy award, the proposal most likely goes "right in the garbage".
Social media was on it, and before long a number of images and clips from Downton Abbey were shared showing an unperturbed Violet Crawley in all her snobbery.
Dame Maggie, who is regularly nominated, has never attended the ceremony in person.
  • Game of Thrones breaks record

'Give them their story'

effrey Tambor, who took the outstanding comedy actor gong for the second year in a row, made a heart-warming call for Hollywood to provide more work for transgender actors.

"I'm not going to say this beautifully - shush, shush," he said as he prepared to make a serious plea.
"To you people out there, you producers, you network owners, you agents and you creative sparks, please give transgender talent a chance."
Tambor, who plays a transgender woman in the Amazon series Transparent, added: "I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television. We have work to do.
"Give them auditions. Give them their story," he declared while accepting his Emmy.

 


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01:38:00
In our series of letters by African journalists, Nigerian novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani questions whether a South African school's hair rules really were racist.
As I followed the recent protests at a South African girls' school where students insisted on being allowed to wear afro hairdos to school, I recalled my own days as a student in what used to be one of Nigeria's most prestigious boarding schools for girls.
In contrast to South African school hair diktats, at the Federal Government Girls' College in Owerri in south-eastern Nigeria, straightening your hair was banned.
At unannounced intervals during the term, one of the school's matrons conducted an inspection of each girl's hair, then ran a sharp pair of scissors through any locks that she suspected of being chemically treated.
The consequence of rebelling against the school's hair rules was a shaved head. All hair gone. Case closed.
Despite this drastic action against straightened hair, we were not allowed to wear our hair in afros. Neither were we to hold our hair up in a bun.
Hair was supposed to be natural, but it had to be either short or plaited.

My school didn't have any 100% white students, but those of mixed race were also not allowed to leave their naturally soft and silky strands flying loose.
Like the rest of us, they were required to keep their hair in check.

'School life is about unpalatable rules'

I wonder if the Pretoria High School for Girls had similar straightforward intentions as the authorities in my former school did.
Were they being racist or just overly disciplinarian?
A study of the school's Code of Conduct document shows certain restrictions to what every student can do to or with their hair, irrespective of race.
It says:
  • All hair must be brushed
  • If hair is long enough to be tied back, it must be tied back neatly in a ponytail, no lower than the nape of the neck
  • Pony tails may not be visible from the front
  • All hair must be off the face and not be in the eyes
  • Hair buns must be tight with no loose hair and have to be worn in the neck and not on top of the head."
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01:33:00
It's a story that has made headlines around the world. A British peer's daughter found lying dead in a Philippine street next to a sign declaring "drug pusher to the celebrities you're next!"
Maria Aurora Moynihan, a 45-year-old with dual British-Filipino nationality, appears to have become the latest victim in the crackdown on drugs by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
She had been on bail since her arrest for alleged possession of drugs in 2013.
Baron's daughter killed in Philippines
Her death has thrown the spotlight back on her father Antony, the 3rd Baron Moynihan, who himself was linked to international heroin smuggling as well as prostitution and fraud, and spent years on the run.

'Playboy Peer'

The Moynihan family's entry into the British aristocracy began in the 1920s when Berkeley Moynihan - a highly-regarded surgeon - was made the 1st Baron Moynihan.
His father Andrew, an army captain, had won the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Crimean War.
But scandal came to the 2nd Baron Moynihan, Patrick, who at the time of his death in 1965 was facing charges of homosexual importuning.
His son Antony Moynihan, the third baron, was born in 1936 and educated at the private school, Stowe.
A sign that his life was not going to follow the traditional route of a peer of the realm was when he married actress and sometime nude model Ann Herbert in secret in 1955.
Image caption Lord Moynihan married his first wife in secret, and would later be dubbed the 'Playboy Peer' in the press
The marriage quickly turned sour, though, and a year later he fled to Sydney.
There, while working as a bongo drummer in a nightclub, the man who would become known as the "Playboy Peer" met his second wife, Shirin Belly, a Malaysian belly dancer and fire-eater.
They married in 1958, had a daughter, and enjoyed both a move to Ibiza and a belly-dancing tour of Europe during their nine years together.
In 1965, Antony Moynihan - who once worked as chauffeur for notorious slum landlord Peter Rachman - entered the House of Lords, declaring: "I have every intention of shaking this place up. Sparks will fly."
But his active days in the Lords were short-lived as, by 1970, he was facing dozens of fraud charges over various business and financial transactions.
He would later say he had been given 48 hours' notice by a man from the CID who offered to make the charges go away for £50,000.
Instead, he fled the country with his, by then third, wife Luz de la Rossa Fernandez, a dancer and the niece of the Philippines' ambassador to Cambodia.
After a brief spell in Spain, during which British officials sought his extradition, the family landed in the Philippines where he remained for most of the rest of his life.
Maria Aurora was born in 1971, a younger sister for the couple's first child Antonita, now a famous Filipino actress known as Maritoni Fernandez. A third sister Kathleen was born in 1974.
After learning of her sister's death this week, Ms Fernandez described her as an "exceptional human being I will forever have the privilege of calling my sister".
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Image caption Antony Moynihan's daughter Aurora was shot in the Philippines in September 2016 while on bail for drug-related charges
Their parents split in 1980 - the same year Antony Moynihan was described as a "shadowy figure" by an Australian judge investigating Sydney's drugs world.
Mr Justice Woodward told the New South Wales Royal Drugs Commission the peer "is or was in some way involved in the importation of heroin from Manila", Australian media reported at the time.
The court also heard he owned a farm where he grew vegetables and flowers, as well as running "massage parlours".
But when a reporter in the Philippines put the allegations to him, he retorted: "Me shadowy? Isn't it absurd?"
However, it was widely accepted he had become involved in Manila's underworld, running a number of brothels, including one called the Yellow Brick Road.
And he did it all without fear; his close connection with then-president Ferdinand Marcos - who he described as a "drinking buddy" - apparently affording him some level of protection.
But after Marcos fell in 1986, that protection disappeared - and Lord Moynihan was suddenly vulnerable to the various international agencies who had been waiting to get their hands on him.
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01:29:00
Botswana is to deport controversial US pastor Steven Anderson after he said on a local radio that homosexuals should be "stoned to death".
President Ian Khama told the Reuters news agency that he had personally ordered his arrest.
"We don't want hate speech in this country. Let him do it in his own country," he said.
Last week, South Africa barred Mr Anderson from visiting because of his critical remarks about homosexuality.
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Homosexual acts are illegal in Botswana, as in many African countries.
After his visa for South Africa was rejected, Mr Anderson had posted on his Facebook page: "Thank God we still have a wide open door in Botswana."
Mr Anderson was taking part in a morning show hosted by GabzFM station together with a local pastor and an LGBT activist.
The show's presenter Reginald Richardson told the BBC that Mr Anderson expressed disdain for homosexuals during the show saying that they should be killed.
Botswana's private Mmegi newspaper reported that security agents apprehended the pastor after the radio show.
"I am not being arrested. I am leaving Botswana voluntarily," Mr Anderson told witnesses at the radio station, Reuters reports.
Onkokame Mosweu, a commentator on gay and lesbian affairs, commended the government's action but said that the pastor should not have been allowed into the country.
Mr Khama said that the pastor had been put on a visa watch list after he was banned from travelling to South Africa, but the order had not been communicated to all officials manning the country's borders.
The preacher had arrived in Botswana late last week and had given a sermon at a local church that he helped set up, Mr Richardson said.
Mr Anderson runs the Faithful Word Baptist Church, which says that homosexuality is an abomination punishable by the death penalty.
His church is based in the US state of Arizona and describes itself as an "old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist church".

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14:09:00
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has said it is "pretty undeniable" that Hollywood is racist.
He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the film world was seen as "very, very progressive", but was "lagging behind" industries in encouraging diversity.
Radcliffe also said it was hard for gay actors to come out for fear of being typecast in gay roles.
And he stated that he did not want to play Potter again "at this point".
The 27-year-old British actor has starred as JK Rowling's child wizard in several films since 2001.
But his latest screen role, in the thriller Imperium, is as Nate Foster, an FBI agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a white supremacist group.

'Fear and hatred'

Radcliffe told Victoria Derbyshire this had led him to think more about racial issues, and to consider how close to "mainstream" some of the opinions in the film had become.
He criticised the Republican US presidential candidate, Donald Trump, saying he had "stirred up" feelings of "fear and hatred".
The US film industry has itself come in for criticism for racism, with actor Dustin Hoffman and director Spike Lee boycotting this year's Oscars ceremony over what has been described as a lack of ethnic minority nominees.
Asked whether Hollywood was "racist", Radcliffe, who is on the panel that chooses Oscar winners, said: "It's pretty undeniable."
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14:05:00
Dame Maggie Smith says she was "astonished" to win another Emmy award after host Jimmy Kimmel joked about her missing the ceremony.
The 81-year-old won her fourth Emmy on Sunday for her role in Downton Abbey.
Kimmel joked the award was being left in "lost and found" after Dame Maggie failed to attend the ceremony.
In a tweet posted by Masterpiece PBS, she wrote: "If Mr Kimmel could please direct me to the lost and found office I will try and be on the next flight."
She added: "I was very astonished and pleased to win the award. I feel the Emmys have been overly generous to me."
The message was signed, "Love, Old Maggie".
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14:02:00
Sheridan Smith is to reprise her hit West End role as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl when it goes on a tour of the UK next year.
The actress, who took almost two months off from the musical due to stress and exhaustion earlier this year, will kick off the tour in Manchester in February.
She will also appear in cities such as Liverpool, Bristol and Cardiff.
Smith will not appear at all the venues on the tour, with further casting will be announced shortly.
The stage and TV star will also play several dates in Dublin.
When Smith took time off from the London production in May, the producers said she would get "the rest and support she needs".
The actress, who has two Olivier awards for her stage roles in Legally Blonde and Flare Path, was made an OBE last year. She has described the part of Fanny as her "dream role".
The production of Funny Girl transferred to the Savoy Theatre in April after a successful run at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
The venues Sheridan Smith will perform at:
  • Manchester Palace
  • Milton Keynes Theatre
  • Liverpool Empire
  • Edinburgh Playhouse
  • Birmingham Hippodrome
  • Newcastle Theatre Royal
  • Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
  • Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
  • Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
  • Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
  • Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin
The tour will also take in Stoke, Aberdeen, Woking, Canterbury, Glasgow, Nottingham and Llandudno but those performances will star a different leading lady, yet to be revealed.
When Smith was taking a break from the West End production, her part was taken over by understudy Natasha J Barnes to great acclaim.
Barnes continues to star in Monday evening performances.
The show's run at the Savoy ends on 8 October
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13:58:00
Would you stop throwing things away and get them repaired instead, if it were cheaper to do so?
The Swedish government likes to think its citizens would, and is putting the idea into practice.
The country's Budget for 2017 will cut the VAT rate charged on minor repairs to things like bicycles, shoes and clothes.
Tax refunds will be offered to people who get their white goods repaired, like washing machines and dishwashers.
The VAT rate will be cut from 25% to 12%, and the tax refund will let people reclaim half the labour cost of a repair to white goods and kitchen stoves.
The idea of encouraging people to be less wasteful in their everyday lives has been promoted by the Swedish Green party, which is a partner in the country's ruling minority coalition government, along with the Swedish Social Democrats.
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13:54:00
Donald Trump Jr's tweet comparing Skittles to refugees has caused a furore on social media. In a new development, the man who took the photo of the Skittles has revealed himself to be a former refugee.
David Kittos, 48, from Guildford, UK, woke up to find an image he had posted to Flickr in January 2010 had become embroiled in a political controversy.
"This was not done with my permission, I don't support his politics and I would never take his money to use it," Mr Kittos told the BBC.
"In 1974, when I was six-years old, I was a refugee from the Turkish occupation of Cyprus so I would never approve the use of this image against refugees."
In his tweet, the son of the Republican presidential candidate uses Mr Kittos' image with the accompanying text: "If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?''
"That's our Syrian refugee problem."
He adds: "This image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first."
Wrigley, the company that owns Skittles, stepped in to the furore by responding: "Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don't feel it is an appropriate analogy".

'No permission'

David Kittos, who does not follow Twitter, was alerted to the use of the image by friends.
A keen photographer, he told the BBC he originally took the picture in his home studio: "I was just experimenting with something called off-camera flash.
"This was six years ago when there were no Syrian refugees at the time and it was never done with the intention of spreading a political message.
"I have never put this image up for sale. This was not done with my permission, I don't support Trump's politics and I would never take his money to use it."
Mr Kittos' personal history means he is particularly dismayed by his image being used in a debate around accepting refugees.
"I am now a British citizen but I am Greek-Cypriot by birth and in 1974 I was a refugee because of the Turkish occupation.
"I was six years old. We lived in the area of Cyprus that is now under Turkish military control. We had to leave everything behind overnight. Our property and our possessions."

'Pure greed'

Mr Kittos is unsure whether he will take action over the use of his image by the Trump campaign.
"I would like the Trump campaign to delete the image, but they are probably not interested in what I have to say," he said.
"I was thinking about getting lawyers involved but I don't know if I have the patience.
"This isn't about the money for me. They could have just bought a cheap image from a micro stock library. This is pure greed from them. I don't think they care about my feelings. They should not be stealing an image full stop."

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13:48:00
An experiment in Germany has found evidence of job discrimination against women with Turkish names - and even more if they wear an Islamic headscarf.
A university researcher sent 1,500 identical CVs to German firms - except that some bore the name Meryem Ozturk and others the name Sandra Bauer.
In 18.8% of cases Sandra Bauer was invited for interview, whereas the figure for Meryem was just 13.5%.
When the photo of Meryem showed her in a headscarf only 4.2% invited her.
The study was published by the Institute for the Study of Labour, in Bonn. The researcher was Doris Weichselbaumer from the University of Linz, in Austria.
The findings are especially significant in light of Germany's current efforts to integrate record numbers of Muslim migrants, many of them refugees from the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than a million asylum seekers reached Germany last year, and there has been a backlash from nationalist groups, especially Pegida and Alternative for Germany (AfD).
With an estimated three million people of Turkish origin, Germany is home to the largest Turkish diaspora.

'Modern-looking' headscarf

In her study, Ms Weichselbaumer said that "a very modern binding of the headscarf was chosen to signal that the applicant was a young, modern woman who could easily fit into a secular environment".
It is normal in Germany to attach a photo to a job application, she pointed out.
The result of the experiment "implies that the candidate with the headscarf had to send 4.5 times as many applications as an identical applicant with a German name and no headscarf to receive the same number of callbacks for interview", she said.
Discrimination appeared to intensify when the job required a higher skill level. When Ms Ozturk in a headscarf was applying for a secretarial job she had to send off 3.5 times more applications than Ms Bauer. For the post of chief accountant Ms Ozturk had to make 7.6 times more applications.
Ms Weichselbaumer has found similar levels of discrimination in Austria. A female Nigerian job applicant was only half as successful as an Austrian woman in getting invitations to interview, her research showed in 2013
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