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A man who failed to be crowned Apple Queen of a small German town in a head-to-head contest has challenged the results in court. The town of Guben in Brandenburg extended their traditional contest to men for the first time last year because of a shortage in candidates.

An Indian woman has successfully won a divorce under the country's strict marriage laws by arguing her husband was torturing her by refusing to build a toilet in their home. The unnamed woman in her 20s was forced to relieve herself in fields for the duration of the five-year marriage.

A man who brought his pet goat to a Lidl supermarket has denied that it amounted to disorderly behaviour. Andrew Meneice, 32, pleaded not guilty in Coleraine Magistrates Court yesterday to being disorderly, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

The manufacturers of a stress-reduction device have applied to go into examinership following a failed crowdfunding bid. Dublin-based firm Galvanic manufactures the Pip, a bio-sensor that assesses stress levels and feeds the data to a smartphone app.

A man has been jailed after accidentally shooting a gun while taking a selfie in a strip club bathroom. Rorn Sorn, 34, was sentenced to six years and five months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon after police responding to the disturbance in Tampa, Florida found the gun and dru

Prospective jurors in the trial of hated pharmaceutical boss Martin Shkreli trampled over the long-established principle of jury impartiality in court transcripts which show juror selection going quickly awry. Mr Shkreli became the object of widespread ire after his company acquired the drug Darapri

A Las Vegas lawyer has experienced a streak of bad luck after being disbarred and now arrested over separate alleged frauds. Easton K. Harris was disbarred in June over more than 100 professional conduct violations involving at least 23 clients, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

A Syrian refugee has been convicted in Germany of seeking to defraud terror group Islamic State to the tune of €180,000. Hasan A., a 39-year-old hairdresser from Damascus, now faces two years in jail for trying to persuade IS operatives to transfer him money for explosives which he had no intentio

Police have been left baffled after receiving reports that someone apparently broke into an apartment and cleaned it. The apartment's resident contacted police after coming home from a trip to find the entire apartment had been cleaned.

A lawyer has been jailed after making death threats to a fellow lawyer who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator. The long-running case, focussed on an incident in 2014, began in 2015 and has finally been concluded.

A judge who wore a pro-Trump "Make America Great Again" hat on the bench is facing investigation after 81 complaints were lodged. Judge Bernd Zabel, a judge in Ontario, Canada, wore the cap while presiding on 9 November 2016, one day after Donald Trump's surprise election as President of the United

A police officer who used the force helicopter to spy on people having sex has been jailed for a year. Over the course of the three-week trial, Sheffield Crown Court heard that 51-year-old Adrian Pogmore was "a swinging and sex-obsessed air observer".

Over 1,500 pints of prison hooch are confiscated in Irish prisons every year, new figures have revealed. Almost 6,500 pints of homemade alcohol - produced by inmates using water, sugar, fruit and bread - have been seized over the past four years, with nearly 875 pints confiscated last year.

A judge rehearsed an old legal joke as she sentenced a lawyer to a year in jail for forging the signatures of judges. Jose Camacho forged more than 100 judicial signatures in financial settlement cases, though strangely he never actually benefited from the fraud.

Pictured: Not the couple in question A new bride allegedly pulled a gun from under her wedding dress to threaten her new husband just hours after they were married.