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A police raid on a drug kingpin's prison cell uncovered such luxuries as a plasma TV, a treadmill and a library of books and DVDs.

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A man who hid seven grams of cocaine under his foreskin has been returned to jail for 12 weeks.

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A province in eastern China has banned civil servants' boozy working lunches — after several of them DIED from alcohol poisoning.

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A Japanese steakhouse faces legal action after a man claimed part of a dinner show where his wife was squirted with water from a plastic toy was a "sexual-style assault".

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A non-Spanish-speaking teacher is suing the Southern District of Florida for refusing to let her teach the language.

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A woman has launched a legal case at the High Court in London in an attempt to stop her neighbours from from using spicy chillies in their cooking.

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An American man relived a plotline from TV sitcom Seinfeld by allegedly attempting to profit from a neighbouring state's bottle deposit scheme. Brian Everidge will appear in court charged with one felony count of beverage return of non-refundable bottles - a charge carrying penalties of up to five y

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Residents of a Colorado town have been warned not to drink tap water after it repeatedly tested positive for THC, the main psychoactive component in cannabis. The alarm was raised after field tests on tap water in the town of Hugo, population 720, returned positive results.

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Sniffer dogs are to be recruited in Greece to sniff out potential tax dodgers who try to take cash out of the crisis-hit country. The Finance Ministry said it would be constructing a team to assess tenders for the provision of dogs tasked with detecting cash.

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Cunning cops have tried to lure in fugitives with the promise of catching a rare Pokémon in GPS-based mobile game sensation Pokémon Go. A tongue-in-cheek invitation extended on Facebook to a list of more than 500 "lucky" fugitives urges them to hurry to the police headquarters' booking area.

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A man has been accused of using a stolen human brain to get high. Joshua Long, 26, was charged with abuse of a corpse after a relative discovered a human brain stuffed into a WalMart bag.

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A benefits claimant trying to check his balance was shocked to be put through to a premium sex line when he rang the number on the back of his electronic benefit card. In an unfortunate misprint, the number provided on some cards put callers through to a live chat line.

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An elderly woman has been questioned by police after she filled in a crossword – not realising it was a piece of modern art. The unnamed pensioner, who is 91, was questioned under caution after doing the crossword, which is valued at €80,000 (£67,000).

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A man has pleaded guilty to a number of charges relating to unauthorised tissue removal of someone he met in a hotel. Allan George Matthews, 57, admitted charges of “removing tissues from the body of another without consent or authority”. However, he pleaded not guilty to a charge of reckless gr

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Police were called to halt an illegal rubber duck race in a Gloucestershire village on Sunday. The race, which took place at Bourton-on-the-water in the Cotswolds, angered one local resident so much they called the police, invoking an ancient law that prohibits fundraising on a Sunday.

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