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A dozen people have been fined after breaking strict Covid-19 rules to play dominoes together in a restaurant. Police said they entered a restaurant in east London and found "a group of 12 people hiding in a dark room".

Octopuses are thugs that will punch fish for no reason other than "spite", new research has found. A team led by Eduardo Sampaio, of the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre in Lisbon, found that the cephalopods would punch fish while they were working together to find food, The Times reports.

Diners who leave food on their plate will be fined under a new Chinese law. New legislation designed to support a government campaign against food waste will introduce fines for diners with eyes bigger than their stomachs.

A 12-year-old DJ who organised an illegal rave in his school bathrooms has been reprimanded. Cael Bell brought pro DJ equipment and lights to his underground party in the boys' bathroom at St Antony's Catholic College in Greater Manchester.

A soldier in the United States Space Force has been demoted after he abandoned training to buy a PlayStation 5. When contacted by his superior, he replied: “Yolo, PS5 > letters of discipline.”

A couple will have to pay for disposing of their son's collection of pornography magazines, a court has said. David Werking, 42, sued his parents, Beth and Paul Werking, after his "trove of pornography and an array of sex toys" were thrown out, MLive reports.

A mayor has mocked a fine imposed on authorities for appointing too many women. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was told she had broken the law by naming too many women to various posts.

A police drugs-squad raided a house in Peru dressed as Santa and an elf.

A new social media trend which encourages young people to lie in front of oncoming traffic has been condemned by gardaí. The "ghosting" trend sees people challenged to lie on roads with a sheet over them in an attempt to stop oncoming traffic.

A six-year-old boy has cost his mother over €13,000 by buying virtual gold rings for real money in his favourite mobile game. Real estate broker Jessica Johnson was cleared out over the course of a month by her young son when he went on a spending spree in the Sonic Forces mobile game.

A night owl who couldn't stand the crowing of his neighbour's rooster has been given a five-month suspended prison sentence for shooting it. The 47-year-old fireman from southern France, known only as Gérard A, shot and beat rooster Marcel to death after being woken too early in the morning.

Audacious thieves have apparently raided a military plane designed to keep Russian president Vladimir Putin safe in the event of nuclear war. The Russian government said equipment worth roughly one million roubles (around €11,000) was stolen from the Ilyushin-80 plane while it was undergoing ma

Three supermarket fishmongers have been convicted of cruelty for keeping carp in unacceptable conditions after a decade-long legal battle. The landmark case in Poland may have repercussions for the fish industry there, where carp is usually bought alive and kept alive until Christmas dinner.

A tonne of cocaine worth £100m has been found hidden in a shipment of banana pulp, the Home Office has said. The drugs were found at the London Gateway depot in Essex last month, concealed in a shipping container.

Police are under fire for posting a photo on social media of a Christmas tree decorated with mugshots. A sheriff's department in the US state of Alabama called the Facebook photos "thugshots".