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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.

British immigration officials have allegedly been promised cake and chocolates if they arrest more migrants than their colleagues. A whistleblower told the PCS trade union, which has criticised the practice: "Whoever made the most arrests in a month would get cake and possibly a box of Roses. This w

A young clarinet player has been awarded over £200,000 in damages after suing his ex-girlfriend for sabotaging his scholarship. Eric Abramovitz was offered a full scholarship from Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, worth about £38,000 a year, but the email was intercepted by his then-gi

A lawyer has been jailed after he duped a former S&M dungeon master into believing the latter had won damages from Channel 4. Andrew Davies, 34, told his client, retired dungeon master Shaun O'Driscoll, he was to receive £710,000 after making complaints about the show Me and My Slaves, a docume

Police are looking for the source of €36,000 found inside a church confession booth, possibly from a repentant crook. The sum comprised €50 notes stuffed inside two plastic bags and was found under the priest's seat in the confessional in Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci church, near the Va

The tackle which saw Liverpool's Mohamed Salah leave the pitch just 30 minutes into his team's Champions League final against Real Madrid last month has featured in a law exam. The question reads: "Sergio Ramos injured Mohamed Salah in the 2018 European Champions League final. Naturally, Ramos canno

Police in Turkmenistan have been inspecting bathrooms after reports of locals using newspapers with photos of the country's president – as toilet roll. Police in the western region of Balkan instructed community policing officers to inspect public toilets and private houses for evidence of people

A piper was arrested on Edinburgh's famous Royal Mile after police approached him about playing his bagpipes too loudly. John McDonald was arrested for refusing to give his details to police when they approached him as part of Edinburgh City Council and Police Scotland's attempts to tackle noisy str