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A lawyer who drunkenly harassed diners in a Thai restaurant before launching a foul-mouthed tirade at police and patrons was eventually banned from a total of 225 bars and restaurants. Leon Monastirski was arrested last February after police were called by bosses at a Thai restaurant where he was re

Celeb couple Victoria and David Beckham have registered their five-year-old daughter Harper's name as a trademark. According to European intellectual property office records, Victoria Beckham registered The Harper Beckham trademark in February.

The artist who sculpted Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue claims New York City has violated his legal rights by allowing the “Fearless Girl” statue to be installed opposite his work. Italian-born Arturo Di Modica has complained that the other artwork, installed without his permis

A Ugandan activist, Dr Stella Nyanzi, has been charged with cyber harassment over a Facebook post in which she referred to President Yoweri Museveni as "a pair of buttocks", a reference which her official charge sheet has described as "obscene or indecent". Unexpectedly, there is no mention in the o

An Australian rapper called '2pec' ran up a £360 bill in a seafood restaurant, before diving into the sea and swimming off to avoid paying, a Queensland court has heard. Police gave chase on jetskis and apprehended the man.

Three suspected burglars of short stature, all members of the self-styled ‘Irish mob midgets’, have been arrested after CCTV cameras filmed them illegally entering a house through a pet flap in the front door. The three men are known members of the criminal organisation that operates in the Bost

Uruguay is to start selling pot in pharmacies from July this year. It will be the first country in the world to sell cannabis over the counter for recreational purposes.

A lawyer in Chicago, Illinois has published 25 lessons from his 16 years administrating legal guidance and referral website Illinois Lawyers. Having supported around 350,000 people in that time, Michael Helfand shared his 25 Lessons From Being A Chicago Lawyer on his blog.

The Yamuna and Ganges rivers in India are legal persons, a court has ruled. A division bench of Uttarakhand High Court made the ruling just one week after a river in New Zealand became the first in the world to be recognised as having the legal rights of a person.

An artificial intelligence expert "married" a robot of his own creation in a simple ceremony on Friday. Zheng Jiajia, 31, married his robot Yingying after failing to find a human wife, the Qianjiang Evening News reports.

A Florida “doctor” who became infamous for injecting her patients' rear ends with tyre fluid has been sentenced to a decade behind bars. Oneal Ron Morris, known as the “Fix-a-Flat doctor”, was jailed after one of her butt-injections went horribly wrong, the Washington Post reports.

A 17-year-old girl who made an online game where users attack Donald Trump's face with kitten claws is facing legal action. Lucy built the game to practise her web programming skills, but soon received a cease and desist letter from Trump's general counsel in Trump Tower, the New York Observer repor

Two men have been arrested for allegedly smuggling cocaine inside giant fake bananas. Police checking a shipment of bananas in Valencia and Malaga were stunned to find that some of the "fruit" was really made of resin - and that 15.4 pounds of cocaine had been stuffed into the fake bananas.

A right-wing politician has been jailed for two years for buying sex toys with council funds. Pius Leitner, a councillor for South Tyrol's secessionist party Die Freiheitlichen, did the crime and is now doing the time after he was found guilty of embezzlement after using public money to purchase thr

A Florida woman was arrested after a gung-ho 3-year-old she left in her car swiped her handgun and shattered one of the windows with a gunshot. Abbie Maldonado left the toddler in the parked car at Good Shepherd Academy, where she was picking up her son.