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A trio of thieves briefly succeeded in stealing a shark from an aquarium by disguising it as a baby in a pram. CCTV footage released by police shows two men and a woman lifting the horn shark from a public pool where visitors are allowed to stroke the fish.

The PSNI has publicly shamed a member of the public who called 999 to complain that their local tanning salon had closed. The caller wanted to know "how they could claim back their unused 25 minutes", police said on Facebook.

A dog whose drug-sniffing skills have led to the capture of at least 245 people and the seizure of nine tonnes of cocaine from a gang has had a bounty put on her head. Sombra, a six-year-old German shepherd, has been marked for death by a Colombian mafia.

A lawmaker has been ridiculed for dropping his trousers and using racial slurs on comedian Sascha Baron Cohen's Who Is America? TV show, prompting him to tender his resignation. Jason Spencer, a Republican state representative, initially refused to quit his post after the show aired.

A man who took his pet sheep, 'Chops', into a Lidl in an attempt to persuade people not to buy lamb refused to leave, choosing instead to punch a store detective and strike him with a metal pole, a court heard. Andrew Meneice, 33, appeared at the store in County Antrim last July. He pleaded guilty t

A man is suing an airline after he suffered “disabling injuries” when a bottle of rum allegedly fell on him during a flight. John Loughlin claims the bottle struck him after it dropped from an overhead luggage bin when another passenger opened it on the transatlantic Aer Lingus flight fr

One of the UK's biggest perfume retailers has unveiled a new fragrance – that smells of marijuana. The Perfume Shop is the first to sell 212 VIP Men Party Fever, from Carolina Herrera.

A tourist was charged and fined after she brought an unexploded World War Two shell to Vienna airport. The 24-year-old found the munition while out walking in the Dachstein mountains, police in Lower Austria said.

A woman who allegedly stalked Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle for eight months last year has been ordered to stay away from him for three years. Rebecca Gamble, 48, is alleged to have tormented Mr Boyle by appearing at his gigs at The Stand comedy club in Glasgow and the Sheraton Hotel in Edinburgh

Two police officers have been suspended after tossing a coin to decide whether or not to arrest a suspected speeding motorist. The officers, based in Roswell, Georgia, USA, were placed on administrative leave after bodycam footage of the incident was obtained by investigative reporters and broadcast

A woman who won nearly £700,000 from the lottery has announced her first action will be to sue her nephew for his half of the jackpot. Barbara Reddick said she put nephew Tyrone MacInnis on the ticket for luck but had only promised to share the winnings from a smaller draw.

A Spanish civil servant who was paid €50,000 a year for a job he failed to go to for more than a decade has been given a nine-year work ban. Carles Recio, former head of Valencia’s Proceedings Archive, would clock in at his office at 7:30am every day, before leaving.

Three suspected poachers were eaten by lions after their plan to break into a game reserve and hunt rhino apparently went awry. The armed men broke into the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa but encountered its pride of lions and were found in pieces.

A town in Lebanon has introduced a new T-shirt and shorts uniform for women police officers in a bid to attract more tourists. Pierre Achkar, the mayor of Brummana, said the revealing new outfit would help to "change the bleak picture of Lebanon in the west".

Animal rescue workers have raised concerns over an unexplained sharp spike in reports of drunk seagulls. Staff at the RSPCA in Britain said they've received over a dozen calls in recent weeks about gulls so drunk they've nearly passed out.