SIDELINES...

THE WRONG MAN

A drug dealer arrested in Clam Lake, Michigan, confidently gave police a false name, which turned out to be that of a man wanted for other crimes in the area. D.Star, 11 April 2021.

SEX MACHINE

Misheck Nyandoro, 66, who has 16 wives and 151 children, is to marry again, because the older women complain he wants sex too often. The retired Zimbabwean war veteran, who started his “polygamy project” in 1983, sleeps with four women every night. “I go to the bedrooms on my schedule,” he said. “I satisfy my wife and move on to the next room. This is my job. I have no other job.” Sun, Metro, 11 May 2021.

BABY BARGAIN

Police in the West Midlands are investigating a report that a man tried to buy a baby from a woman in the street in Dudley. The woman was walking with her baby in a stroller when a man approached her and asked to buy the child, obstructing her path and trying to undo the pushchair’s safety belts. The woman and her baby escaped unharmed after she pushed the man away and turned the stroller round. Independent, 14 May 2021.

LOCAL EMOTIONS

A study has found that music in a minor key only sounds sad to Westerners; how emotion is processed in songs depends on cultural conditioning. Western culture is programmed to find tunes played in a minor key melancholic and those in a major key uplifting. D.Telegraph, 14 Jan 2021.