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A married Brisbane lawyer was caught having an affair with a female colleague after his wife secretly set up hidden cameras in his office. The man's infidelity is now the talk of the town's legal profession.

An American mother with a $1 million lottery ticket could wind up in prison after being accused of conspiring to steal the money to buy it. Joan Lechleitner, 51, was arrested on four counts of conspiracy and one each of theft, theft by deception, receiving stolen property, and tampering with records

Eighteen lions will be put on "trial" in India to identify the big cat responsible for killing three people in the state of Gujarat. Police have rounded up the animals, whose paw prints and faeces are now being tested in order to establish the culprit of the tragic attack.

A Russian lawyer is taking his ex-girlfriend to court in a bid to have her return the cash he spent on a couple's holiday in Crimea. Nikolai Zyablikov, 38, is suing Nina Zgurskaya, 29, for "illegal enrichment".

A London man has been convicted of swiping his own defence barrister's £300 phone during a court appearance, the London Evening Standard reports. Bobby Heath, 26, stole his lawyer's Samsung Galaxy while she defended him from drug driving allegations in Bexley Magistrates Court.

Police in Texas successfully apprehended a man who ran from police during a traffic stop after a field of cows gave him away. Samuel White, who was pulled over for speeding, led police on a high-speed chase after being told he faced arrest.

Donald Trump, presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential election, was left embarrassed after it emerged his lawyer has donated thousands of dollars to opponent Hillary Clinton's campaign. Trump is currently embroiled in legal action over the now-defunct Trump University, in which he's re

A man in New Mexico has claimed he deliberately set his flat on fire because his neighbours were having sex too loudly. According to the complaint, Reuben Cook, 36, told officers he would rather go to prison and “get away from the noise”.

A pair of armed robbers quickly regretted their choice of target after their raid on a McDonald's branch in eastern France saw them come up against an 11-strong elite police team. The two robbers burst into the packed restaurant and immediately began firing warning shots to intimidate staff.

A parrot who keeps repeating "Don't f**king shoot!" could be called as a witness in the trial of his owner's killer. Martin Duram, 45, was shot five times in his Michigan, USA home last May and his death remains under investigation.

A tired and emotional parish priest screamed that he enjoyed diplomatic immunity on behalf of the Vatican while drunkenly brawling with police and a paramedic. Gareth Jones, 36, was convicted after the bizarre incident in central London.

A newly-discovered species of leaf-dwelling praying mantis has been named after US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Scientists at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History said the insect's neck plate closely resembles Justice Ginsburg's jabot.

A judge in Ohio has spared a Catholic man from jail, ordering him to attend Baptist church services for twelve weeks instead. Judge William Mallory handed out his divine sentence to Jake Strotman, 23, who admitted brawling with Baptist street preachers.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has stunned the US legal profession by attacking a sitting federal judge as "a hater of Donald Trump". In a bizarre tirade, Trump himself said: "Everybody says it, but I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He's a hater."

A scientist and an academic have proposed creating robot sex brothels to undermine demand for human sex trafficking. Futurology specialist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars have co-authored a paper proposing robot sex workers as a means of tackling human trafficking and STI transmission.