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An award-winning musician whose €1 million cello was stolen at knifepoint has had the 18th-century instrument anonymously returned. French soloist Ophelie Gaillard was forced to hand over the instrument and her mobile phone in a terrifying robbery in a Paris suburb.

A lawyer has complained to police after more than 100 unwanted pizzas were delivered to his office at the behest of an unknown party. Guido Grolle, a lawyer in Dortmund, told the Ruhr Nachrichten: "It's so irrititating, I don't even get my work done any more."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZBU7BWQsZs A rapper who halted motorway traffic to film a music video has narrowly avoided jail after promising not to do it again.

A property developer has been ordered to pay nearly €5.5 million to a group of graffiti artists after destroying their work without warning. The street artists took to court after 45 separate artworks were whitewashed as a precursor to the redevelopment of a site.

A couple who purchased a $3.2 million mansion are suing the brokers for failing to disclose that it featured in a popular horror TV show — plus, they add, it is actually haunted. In 2015, Dr Ernst von Schwarz and Angela Oakenfold became the inadvertent owners of the Rosenheim Mansion at 1120 Westc

A new anti-speeding initiative involving a fake police officer turned out to be shortlived after the cardboard cop was stolen within hours. Police in Dundee, Scotland installed the cardboard cut-out of a police officer holding a speed gun near a school for disabled children.

A suspected gangster has spent 23 days in custody as police wait for him to go to the toilet and pass a suspected drugs stash. The man has been charged with two counts of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply, but police have not yet recovered the alleged goods.

Armed police responding to reports of a tiger on the loose were relieved to discover it was actually a large stuffed toy.

Thieves who packed their cars with four tonnes of stolen oranges were caught by police after they were seen driving suspiciously.

A man has successfully overturned a fine for parking on a pavement after explaining he urgently needed to go to the toilet. Michael Nyman, 85, was issued with a £130 fine after parking on a pavement when he found himself in a tight situation in the middle of heavy London traffic.

A pensioner has been banned from every single farm in the UK after he inserted his fist into a cow’s rectum while performing a sex act. John Curno, 80, was found guilty of outraging public decency following a spate of bovine molestations.

The French government is cracking down on supermarket promotions blamed for the "Nutella riots" that recently made worldwide headlines. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, unveiling plans to tighten rules on sales, said: "We can't have scenes like this every few days in France."

Three passengers have been arrested in two airports in just two days on suspicion of smuggling 20 gold biscuits in their rectums. Customs officials at two airports in Assam, in north-east India, said they had recovered a remarkable amount of gold from the passengers.

A woman who went to court over damage caused to her car by walnuts falling from her neighbour's tree has been told to accept the "fact of nature". The woman claimed around €3,000 worth of damage was caused to her car by falling nuts on a windy day in October 2013.

Mexican drug cartel boss "El Chapo" has promised not to have any jurors from his upcoming trial murdered. He made the assurance in a motion requesting that members of the jury should not be kept anonymous and under police protection.