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Nine police officers have been suspended after arresting the entire staff of a fast food restaurant which refused them free burgers. The Johnny & Jugnu restaurant in Lahore, Pakistan said all 19 workers were rounded up on Friday night and kept until Saturday, the BBC reports.

An Austrian soldier has been convicted of glorifying Nazism after tattooing a swastika on his testicles. The 29-year-old was sentenced to 19 months in prison this week after being found guilty of glorifying Nazism and possessing illegal firearms.

An elderly nun faces up to 40 years in prison after embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Catholic school to fuel her gambling habit. Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, 79, has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $835,000 from St James Catholic School in Torrance, California, over the course o

A woman who impersonated her teenage daughter to sit through an entire day of school has been arrested. Casey Garcia, 30, said she infiltrated her 13-year-old daughter's middle school in Texas to make a point about school security.

A pair of long-time feuding neighbours have returned to court over an unwanted Facebook friend request. Mary O'Neill complained that she had received a friend request from her neighbour Peter Malcouronne, even though she is subject to a restraining order banning her from contact with him.

A judge has blasted the last two Star Wars films as "mediocre and schlocky" in an otherwise dry judgment on the labelling of cooking oil. Judge Kenneth K. Lee, sitting in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, summed up the case as "How to Lose a Class Action Settlement in 10 Ways".

Police have paid tribute to their "bovine unit" after wandering cows brought a car chase to a safe end. The 13-mile pursuit ended when the fleeing suspect drove onto a farm and had to brake when faced with a wall of cows.

The US military has apologised after accidentally storming an olive oil factory in Bulgaria. US troops carrying out a military exercise on a decommissioned Bulgarian airfield last month entered the wrong building by mistake.

A five-step recipe for asparagus gratin was inadvertently published in the digital version of Belgium's official journal. The recipe, appearing in the middle of regulations on drug and medical device pricing, was spotted by a Belgian lawyer.

Hundreds of police dogs trained to sniff out illegal drugs are enjoying early retirement following the legalisation of cannabis across swathes of the United States. Cannabis is now legal for recreational use in 17 states and in Washington, D.C., and has been decriminalised in a further 13 states.

Emergency services have pleaded with members of the public to stop reporting the sound of periodical cicadas re-emerging after 17 years underground. Officials in the US state of Georgia have received multiple reports of "alarms" that turned out to be the songs of the Brood X cicadas, TheHill reports

A former US diplomat has launched a $1.8 million lawsuit against the US government and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo over an unpaid legal bill arising from the impeachment of Donald Trump in 2019. Gordon Sondland was sacked as US ambassador to the European Union two days after testifying at

A couple apparently booked out a Boeing 737 for a mid-air wedding ceremony in a brazen attempt to circumvent Covid-19 restrictions on weddings in India. India's civil aviation authority has launched an investigation after photos emerged of over 160 people celebrating in the air as the plane travelle

A drug dealer inadvertently landed himself with a lengthy prison sentence after taking a photograph of a block of Stilton cheese. Carl Stewart, 39, was identified as a user of the EncroChat mobile encryption service by forensic experts using an image he shared of a block of cheese in the palm of his

The lead singer of the Sex Pistols has been drawn into a High Court battle with his former bandmates over a new TV show about their career. John Lydon, also known as Johnny Rotten, has pulled out of the six-part miniseries to be directed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle.