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A self-styled healer has been shot dead by a sceptical client who wanted to test out his magic "bullet-repelling" charms. According to reports, the healer encouraged his buyer to shoot at him while wearing the alleged protective charms around his neck.

In a rare case of hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, councillors in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, have voted to adjust the price of cremation by £1 to avoid a rate of £666 which might startle the superstitious. The figure resulted from the authority's 2018-19 budget plan, prompting councillors to agree t

A man filed for divorce because his wife thought Cristiano Ronaldo was a better footballer than Lionel Messi. After celebrating Argentina's victory over Nigeria on June 26, husband Arsen left his wife of 14 years, Lyudmila, as she remained adamant that the Portugal star was the better player.

A couple allegedly high on bath salts who fired gunshots at fireflies because they thought they were alien lasers were arrested after seeking refuge and a shower in someone's house. Police said that Jesse Shields fired his handgun at the 'lasers' before he and Katherine McCloskey ran to a nearby hom

An exam board has been slapped with a record £175,000 fine after confusing the Montagues and the Capulets in an English exam paper. Almost 15,000 school pupils were asked to answer a question about "Tybalt's hatred of the Capulets" in Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet, even though the characte

A man was injured after a hidden camera in his shoe used to take photos up women's skirts exploded. The 32-year-old was using the device at home when it blew up, prompting him to hand himself in at the local police station.

A boy trying to make some pocket money by mowing lawns has received a string of new clients after one home called the police on him – for straying onto a strip of their grass. Reggie Fields, 12, whose siblings and cousins work for him, inadvertently encroached onto an adjacent garden when mowing L

A man with a tattoo of a gun on his forehead has been arrested and charged with illegal possession of a firearm. Michael Vines allegedly threw a fully-loaded .38-caliber revolver into the grass after being involved in a car accident.

A man has been banned from calling the emergency number after making over 100 calls asking for milk or help finding his TV remote. William Baccus, 62, has now been charged with abuse of the emergency number and is facing arrest in Cobb County, Georgia, USA.

A former NATO chief was denied an automatic visa waiver for entry to the US because records showed he had travelled to Iran - where he had assisted negotiations on Iran's nuclear deal with the West. Javiar Solana, a Spanish politician, was NATO secretary-general from 1995–99 and has held other maj

A man who was mistakenly released from prison was promptly returned to custody by his unimpressed wife. James Rynerson, 38, was released in error because cell records had not been updated to show that his was no longer housing a man set for release.

A determined thief made off with a £2,000 mountain bike after using a saw and evident expertise to cut down the tree to which it was tethered. When the 28-year-old owner returned to his bike, he found that it was missing, along with the better part of the corresponding tree.

A South African judge frustrated by courtroom delays has started holding late lawyers liable for their clients' court costs. Judge Francis Legodi, president of Mpumalanga High Court, has ordered a state-employed lawyer to personally pay the costs associated with a case that was postponed due to late

A lawmaker in Russia has called for "mockery" of the national football team to be banned as players are “fighting for the honour of our country”. Vitaly Milonov said players and their coach should be considered like “our diplomats, our army” during the World Cup.

A business has been fined over its "try before you buy" scheme – for sex dolls. Gateshead-based LD Europe Ltd, which trades as Lovedoll UK, was letting customers have "first hand experience" of the dolls in a bedroom on its premises.