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A library has apologised after a dildo-wearing man in a rainbow-coloured monkey suit was booked for a children’s reading event. An unnamed actor wore the costume, complete with exposed buttocks, at the Redbridge Libraries Summer Reading Challenge in east London. Footage shows his fake penis flapping around as he danced. Parents were less than pleased, with one saying: “Someone needs to lose their job over this.”
World’s ‘most expensive’ burger
A chef in the Netherlands has created the world’s most expensive burger and is selling it for €5,000 (£4,250). The aptly-named ‘Golden Boy’ burger, created by Robbert Jan de Veen of De Daltons diner in Voorthuizen, uses ingredients including Beluga caviar, king crab, Spanish Paleta Iberico and white truffle. Its barbecue sauce is made with Kopi Luwak, an expensive coffee bean and the bun is made with Dom Perignon champagne dough.
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The sweat-based phone charger
Scientists have invented a gadget that turns sweaty skin into a power source that could recharge devices while you sleep. Wearing the device for a ten-hour kip produces enough power to run a watch for 24 hours, according to the team at the University of California San Diego. Experts describe the development as “the holy grail” of energy harvesting.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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