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A school has been ordered to reinstate a teacher fired for reading a book about butts to his pupils. Mississippi teacher Toby Price was sacked in 2022 after choosing I Need A New Butt! by New Zealand author Dawn McMillan for Read Across America Day.

Hasbro, the company behind the popular Magic: The Gathering card game, is being sued by shareholders for producing too many cards. A group of investors allege that Hasbro's CEO, the former president of its Wizards of the Coast subsidiary, and other company officials have "devalued" the brand through

A late judge's fine sense of humour has been warmly recalled in a letter to The Times. Mr Justice John Blofeld, a judge of the English High Court, passed away in November 2025 at the age of 93.

A Russian court has inadvertently admitted that Ukraine sank the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet in a press release which was published online and then quickly removed. The Moskva sank in April 2022 after Ukrainian forces hit it with two missiles in what was widely reported as an enormous and unexpe

A man who backed out of an agreement to purchase a home after its price plummeted has been ordered to pay nearly half of the expected sale price. New Zealand couple Robert and Margaret Smallridge agreed to sell the property in Avondale, Auckland to Paljeet Singh for $1,925,000 NZD (c. £840,000

A man who allegedly posed as a commercial airline pilot to fly for free is facing up to 20 years' imprisonment. Canadian man Dallas Pokornik, 33, has been extradited to the US from Panama to face charges of wire fraud.

Pizza Hut has threatened legal action against an allegedly fake outlet following its grand opening by a Pakistani government minister. Pakistan's defence minister, Khawaja Asif, was filmed cutting the ribbon to mark the opening of the new restaurant at a military base near Sialkot.

Two rival administrations are both claiming to be in charge of a city as a result of a long-running and unresolved legal dispute. Voters in Nelsonville, a small city in south-eastern Ohio, backed sweeping changes to local government in a referendum in November 2024.

Bodycam footage has captured the bizarre moment an American police officer arrested a runaway emu. A video of the chase and arrest has been viewed more than 250,000 times on the Facebook page of St Johns County Sheriff's Office in north-east Florida.

A high-tech facial recognition system introduced by the mayor of São Paulo has led to his own sister's identification and arrest for an alleged crime. The introduction of the "Smart Sampa" system was one of the key policy achievements of Ricardo Nunes' administration, which has run the city s

Italy's most famous social media influencer has been acquitted in a fraud trial relating to a Christmas cake and Easter egg scandal. Prosecutors had sought a prison sentence for Chiara Ferragni, who has more than 28 million followers on Instagram, following "pandorogate".

The US Department of War has demanded that a Canadian sex shop stop accepting orders from US soldiers stationed in Bahrain. Grace Bennett and Katie Aitken, co-founders of Toronto-based Bonjibon, say they have proudly framed two official US government letters reminding them that "pornographic materia

A pensioner who taught himself the law to defend the length of grass in his garden has won a five-year battle against local officials. Canadian man Wolf Ruck, 79, told CTV News that he studied law at a postgraduate level in order to pursue his legal action over rules restricting the length of grass

Two prisoners have been convicted of running a sophisticated telephone scam from behind bars which netted nearly half a million dollars from dozens of victims. Joey Amour Jackson and Lance Riddle — also known as "Apeshit" and "C-Port" — masterminded the scheme while locked up in the US s

New technology has been deployed to help enforce a Chinese smoking ban by taking away the privacy of toilet users when smoke is detected. Two shopping centres in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen have installed new glass toilet cubicle doors, which are designed to turn from opaque to transparent