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History examiners landed themselves in trouble after mistakenly stating in a high school exam that Mary Queen of Scots died in 1567.

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A Mariachi band joined a protest on Friday outside the home of a lawyer caught on camera racially abusing Spanish-speaking restaurant workers.

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A major airline has banned passengers from bringing pigs, goats, ferrets and hedgehogs on board as emotional support animals. American Airlines revised its rules in response to a 40 per cent rise in requests for support animals on board between 2017 and 2018.

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A police officer has received wide praise after he successfully recovered a woman's engagement ring lost on a sandy beach. Jessica Haelen returned to the beach late in the evening after realising that her engagement ring was gone.

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A cancer patient wearing a medical face mask on doctor's orders was threatened with a fine for breaching Austria's strict "burqa ban" laws. Valentin, 26, told Vice News that he was stopped by police and told that his face mask - which doctors told him to wear to protect his immune system - fell foul

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A Nigerian lawyer has launched a lawsuit against Oxford University Press for allegedly mixing up the definitions of "mortgagee" and "mortgagor" in an edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Ogedi Ogu said his reputation suffered after he relied on the incorrect definitions while giving legal advic

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Police are investigating the theft of a woman's front garden. Sue Scorer, 30, told journalists that the artificial turf she had bought for £3,000 had disappeared overnight.

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A woman who accidentally tipped a local kebab shop over €6,000 is still trying to secure a refund. Olesya Shemyakova, 37, was paying by card when she accidentally typed her PIN where she was supposed to type the cost of the order.

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Four British citizens planning to jump off a Benidorm skyscraper with parachutes on their backs have been arrested. Police in the Costa Blanca resort interrupted the illegal base jump, which they suspect was intended to be filmed for YouTube.

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Border guards at Heathrow Airport seized an illegal shipment of 50 live crocodiles being smuggled to Britain. The year-old saltwater crocodiles, around 10 foot long and weighing 40 kilograms each, were packed into five boxes.

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A retired lawyer in the Hebrides is suing a neighbour whose sheep allegedly "eyeballed" him and damaged his car. John Macaulay claims his Ford Mondeo was badly scratched by the aggressive sheep's horns, Hebrides News reports.

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A law professor has applied to unseal court records concerning a senior judge's lawsuit against his neighbour's cat. In a bizarre series of events, Judge Michael Price sought a restraining order against his neighbour's cat, who was regularly peeing in his back garden.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4_ChkfjvqU Police are on the hunt for a driver who was filmed playing the guitar while steering a car with his knees.

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A black man who was forced to pay upfront at a Chinese restaurant has won a €6,500 pay-out after a successful discrimination suit. Emile Wickham and three of his friends were told by a waiter that paying upfront was restaurant policy, but they asked other diners and discovered they were the only c

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New Zealand has been quizzed over why sex work is classed as skilled employment in the country's points-based immigration system. Under their rules, sex work or escorting is a type of "level 5 skilled employment" which can earn points for would-be migrants if they were paid at or above around €21

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