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Cannabis-infused gravy has proved a massive hit in the US at Thanksgiving. In California, which legalised cannabis for recreational use in 2016, retailer Kiva Confections has reported quickly selling out of a limited-edition $5 gravy designed to "take Thanksgiving dinner to a higher level".

A university is facing criminal action for selling bodies and body parts donated for research purposes over the course of a decade. The Centre for Body Donations at Paris Descartes University has admitted mistreating thousands of cadavers, keeping them in rat-infested and overheated rooms.

A former boxing champion has been spared jail for taking part in an illegal bare-knuckle fight - and told by the judge to join a boxing club. Anthony Kelly, 40, knocked out Alan Clohessy, 29, in an organised fight which was filmed and uploaded to YouTube and Facebook.

A cattle farmer has been fined €6,000 because of the smell of dung and hay on his farm. Nicolas Bardy was ordered to pay the sum to his neighbours after a judge ruled that they had been disturbed by the smells.

A man sued a videogame company after his friend sold his character in the game Justice Online, worth almost £1.1 million, for £429. The Chinese man filed suit against Netease and his friend – who said he had mistakenly sold it for 3,888 yuan to a shrewd in-game buyer due to dizzine

Russia has passed legislation banning the sale of smartphones, computers and smart TVs that are not pre-installed with Russian software. The law, due to come in force next July, has come under criticism from privacy experts and the tech industry.

Protesters are calling on Serbia's finance minister to resign after it emerged that he had plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis. Ivanka Popovic, Dean of Belgrade University, has confirmed that Sinisa Mali's doctorate will be annulled.

A judge has ruled that dozens of ducks can keep on quacking in spite of complaints from a neighbour. The fate of 60 ducks and geese living in an enclosure kept by retired farmer Dominique Douthe was momentarily up in the air.

A man is suing Burger King on behalf of vegans and vegetarians after finding out its "0% beef" burger is cooked on the same grills as its beef counterpart. The fast food chain has been rolling out its plant-based "Impossible Burger" across Europe and the US in recent months.

A Moroccan rapper is facing up to two years in jail in connection with a song allegedly insulting the police. Mohamed Mounir, widely known as Gnawi, was arrested at the start of the month and charged with "offending" public officials and public bodies.

A sharp rise in the price of tomatoes has led to farmers in Pakistan hiring round-the-clock guards to watch over their crop. The price of tomatoes sky-rocketed to 350 rupees (£1.75) per kilogram, more than five times the previous price, after Pakistan banned tomato imports from Iran, India and

Prison authorities have captured an inmate's cat which was being used to smuggle drugs into the jail. In CCTV footage released online, guards at a penal colony in the Russian republic of Tatarstan chase after a cat as it races towards the prison building.

Three neighbouring towns have voted in close-fought referendums to legalise alcohol sales after decades-long bans. A handful of US states, particularly in the south, allow local communities to ban the sale of alcohol after a so-called "dry/wet" referendum.

A mother-of-five faces up to three months in jail after failing to return library books for two years. Melinda Sanders-Jones checked out two books in 2017 but forgot about them until she visited the same library to use the printer.

Police officers who have been trained to look out for "green tongues" as evidence of cannabis use have fallen for "junk science", lawyers have said. The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) continues to list a "possible green coating on the tongue" as an indicator of cannabis use in