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A 99-year-old woman was picked up by police and put behind bars last week - in a generous move to help her complete her bucket list.

A woman has lost a personal injury case after a judged ruled that her fall down two flights of stairs at a famous jazz club in Soho was a result of her being obese, drunk and careless. Eren Hussein, 53, sought thousands of pounds in damages from Ronnie Scott’s jazz club after the mishap in 2012.

A man has accused his dog of shooting his sleeping girlfriend. Brian Murphy told police that he brought his dog Diesel into his bedroom after a long walk before leaving the room.

Environmentalists organising a vegetarian festival to mark Earth Day on April 23 in the German town of Kassel have been told by their local council that they must include stalls selling popular meaty sausages including the local cured delicacy ahle wurst. At a meeting on Monday, councillors backed a

Drug dealers in New Zealand are using garden gnomes as currency sparking an upsurge in thefts of garden ornaments. Officers in the North Island region of Hawke's Bay found more than 300 stolen outdoor ornaments at a property that was having its power cut off after running up a huge bill, the Stuff.c

A small German town has removed a children's song about a fox stealing a goose from its repertoire of town hall bell melodies, after a vegan resident protested. The picture-book town of Limburg an der Lahn in Hesse entertains its locals with tunes chimed out by its town hall glockenspiel or carillio

It had to happen. Police have charged a couple with voyeurism by electronic equipment for allegedly sending up a drone to peep into residents' bathrooms and bedrooms in apartment buildings in Utah. Aaron Foote, 39, and his 34-year-old girlfriend, Terisha Lee Norviel, were apprehended after a man saw

A Swedish couple had an unexpected climax to their kinky love-making session when they had to call the cops after losing the keys for their handcuffs. It was not a happy ending for the couple when they were unable to open the steel cuffs.

A man has been charged with arson after cops collected data from his pacemaker. Ross Compton denies setting his home on fire and insurance fraud charges.

A jailed mafia boss is suing prison authorities for $10 million after slipping and fracturing his knee during a game of table tennis. Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli, a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family, is suing over an injury he suffered during a game at the Metropolitan Detention Center

A French businessman is suing Uber claiming the taxi company negligently alerted his wife to his adultery, leading to the break-up of his marriage. The Riviera-based businessman says he once used his wife's mobile phone to hail an Uber driver and that, despite logging off, the company continued to s

A former employee of the Royal Canadian Mint has been jailed for 30 months for stealing gold coins — by hiding them in his rectum. Leston Lawrence, 35, stole CA$165,451 in 22 pieces.

A judge who said he mistakenly handed down a 10-day sentence to a cannabis trafficker instead of a 10-month sentence has failed in his attempts to re-sentence the offender. Charles Bentil, 46, lucked out when he came before US District Judge James C. Cacheris last April after violating his parole te

A monk was arrested after being caught with more than four million methamphetamine pills in his monastery and car. Police were tipped off that the Buddhist renunciant was in possession of the drugs and stopped him in the northern state of Rakhine in Myanmar.

Cops are on the hunt for thieves who raided a first-class tea plantation producing "the best tea in the world". Sneaky tea-snatchers made off with thousands of plants after raiding the remote Dalreoch Farm site in Perthshire, Scotland as owner Tam O'Braan recovered from an illness elsewhere.