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Parks in the poorer districts of northern and eastern Paris have reopened for visitors during the coronavirus pandemic thanks to a serial lockpicker. A mystery man who goes by the name "Jose" spoke to Le Parisien about his nightly efforts to unlock parks which remain shut despite the easing of the C

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A man who allegedly broke into a prestigious museum, wandered the exhibits and took selfies with dinosaur bones has been arrested. Police say the unnamed interloper broke into the Australian Museum in Sydney just after 1am on Sunday 10 May, The Guardian reports.

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A football team has been slapped with a record fine after placing sex dolls in its empty stadium seats during a recent match played behind closed doors. FC Seoul apologised this week after TV and online viewers noticed around two dozen sex dolls in the stadium during the team's match with Gwangju FC

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A group of young men who gave cider to cows have been fined for flouting lockdown restrictions. A video posted on social media showed a group of men feeding a can of Strongbow cider to a cow in Essex, weeks before England's lockdown measures were relaxed.

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A renowned expert on serial killers who delivered training to police and judges has admitted that he faked most of his life's work. Stéphane Bourgoin, 67, falsely claimed that he had been trained by the FBI and that his own wife had fallen victim to a serial killer.

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An investigation has been launched into the removal of pews from a former church owned by a prominent ballet boss amid concerns that COVID-19 is providing cover for unauthorised work. The 192-year-old St Stephen's church building in Edinburgh, Scotland has been owned since 2017 by Peter Schaufuss, f

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An ice cream shop in Hong Kong has launched a "tear gas" flavour in support of the region's pro-democracy movement. After experimenting with wasabi and mustard, the 31-year-old shop owner eventually settled on black peppercorns as the main ingredient.

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A man who stole a 2,000-year-old Roman relic has returned it as he believes "the end of the world is near” and wants to clear his conscience. Moshe Manies, who returned the 'ballista stone' on behalf of the man who stole it, posted about the relic on Facebook.

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French people have been urged to buy more cheese after a sales slump linked to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Council of Appellations of Dairy Origin (CNAOL) has said sales declined by 60 per cent in the first month of the lockdown, CNN reports.

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A judge has questioned the decision to prosecute a homeless man for breaching coronavirus laws by leaving his home. Sultan Monsour, 45, was arrested in London and charged with being "outside of the place where you were living, namely no fixed address", The Guardian reports.

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A law student whose twin sister caused a car crash by sneezing has successfully sued her for over €100,000. Caitlin Douglas, 21, suffered whiplash-like injuries after her sister Brighid suffered a sudden sneezing fit and veered the car they were travelling in off the road.

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One of the first-ever remote hearings of the Supreme Court of the United States was interrupted by the sound of a toilet flushing. The mystery flush was clearly audible during live-streamed oral hearings in Barr v American Association of Political Consultants, Inc yesterday afternoon.

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A cache of illegal weapons including crossbows, tasers and guns designed to fire teargas canisters have been seized from self-styled "zombie hunters". The illegal weapons were recovered by Swedish border guards from a German couple who arrived in a car marked "Zombie Response Team".

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A five-year-old boy has been caught driving his mum's car in an ambitious bid to cross the United States to buy a Lamborghini. Police in Utah were stunned after they pulled over the car to find a "young, very underage driver", CNN reports.

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A man has been charged with trespassing after being caught camping on a closed Disney island. Richard McGuire, 42, said he didn't realise the "tropical paradise" was a part of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

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