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A cafe in Italy could soon see former jailbirds serving judges coffee in a novel effort to give offenders a fresh start. The coffee shop in a Turin courthouse is looking for baristas who have served time in a plan signed off by the city council last week.

A man known as “the German James Bond” has been slapped with a two-year suspended sentence for evading over £2 million in tax. Werner Mauss, 77, a former private investigator who has since become infamous for his work with police and intelligence services, was also ordered to donate £178,000 t

An oil painting by Adolf Hitler has been attacked with a screwdriver during its exhibition in Italy. However, the private collector who owns the untitled work has said he will not press charges against the unnamed 40-year-old attacker.

A man who tried to smuggle three snakes across a border in his socks is facing jail for violating wildlife regulations. Chaoyi Le, 28, is facing up to five years in a US prison after he admitted trying to smuggle three western hog-nosed snakes into Canada by concealing them in his socks.

Russia's prison service has trademarked "Made in Prison", a label soon to appear on clothes made in the country's extensive penal system. Russia's incarceration rate, at 450 per 100,000 members of the population, is the highest in Europe and one of the highest in the world.

A strip club has successfully argued in court that an award of over £2 million in damages to a woman injured by a drunk-driving stripper should be overturned because of local dram shop laws. The Ohio Supreme Court found the stripper qualified as an "intoxicated person" under the Dram Shop Act even

A perennial toilet seat thief was caught after being captured on camera clutching his ceramic booty. Johnny Madikana, 61, was arrested in connection with numerous hotel toilet seat thefts in August.

An Italian woman who failed to find her soul mate has married herself in a ceremony which has no legal significance. Laura Mesi, 40, from Lissone near Milan spent €10,000 on her solo-wedding.

A court has been asked whether a donkey is at fault for taking a bite out of a bright orange sports car mistaken for a "carrot on wheels". Markus Zahn parked his €300,000 Mclaren 650S Spider in a car park bordering a paddock in the German state of Hesse last September.

A man has been arrested while allegedly trying to smuggle nearly a kilogram of gold onto a plane in his rectum. The 45-year-old man attracted attention because he was "walking with difficulty" and "appearing to be in pain", security said.

A couple outraged public decency after they were caught having sex in a branch of Domino’s Pizza. Daniella Hirst, 29, and Craig Smith, 31, were recorded on CCTV in the pizza takeaway earlier this year performing various sex acts after placing their order.

A tiny company in rural Scotland is gearing up for a trademark battle with cosmetics giant L'Oréal over its use of the word "naked". Gary Lee Rushforth, owner of The Naked Soap Company in Dalgety Bay, Fife, told The Courier: "We can’t afford fancy lawyers to fight it. But it’s unreal that they

Prosecutors investigating the discovery of around €100,000 blocking toilets in Geneva's financial district have said there is no immediate reason to assume the high-denomination banknotes are "dirty money". The first blockage was reported at a UBS, followed days later by three nearby bistros who f

A hunting association has apologised for the "incomprehensible" actions of a hunter who left a tourist company devastated after he shot and killed their trekking donkeys. Arpi’âne, based in the French Alps, took to Facebook on Sunday to announce "the assassination of almost all of our herd of don

Police have urged primary school teachers and pupils to keep an eye out for suspicious plants "as the cannabis-growing season approaches". The police force on South Island, New Zealand ran the appeal in its latest newsletter, just below the results of a recent cross-country race, the Marlborough Exp