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Kyaw Zwar Minn, Myanmar’s ex-ambassador to London, who was locked out of his embassy on Wednesday night and forced to sleep in his car. He was dismissed from his post for being critical of the military coup in Myanmar and calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. He has urged the UK government not to recognise the military junta’s newly appointed ambassador.
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Mrs World, who has been arrested in Sri Lanka after allegedly injuring another beauty queen. Caroline Jurie was meant to crown the winner of Mrs Sri Lanka, but pulled the crown off her head instead, claiming that she was divorced and thus ineligible for the title. The winner insisted she was only separated from her husband.
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The giant lizard that caused carnage in a 7-Eleven supermarket store in Thailand this week. The water monitor sent goods flying as it climbed up the shelves, much to the surprise of shoppers.
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Imran Khan, the ex-playboy prime minister of Pakistan, who said immodestly dressed women were to blame for the recent increase in sexual violence in Pakistan. He told women to cover up and embrace the Islamic practice of purdah (modesty). “I’m hoping this is a misquote/mistranslation,” his ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith said on Twitter. “The Imran I knew used to say: ‘Put a veil on the man’s eyes not on the woman.’”