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Sweden's self-declared "Queen of Trash" is facing the country's biggest-ever environmental crime prosecution. Bella Nilsson, chief executive of now-defunct waste management business NMT Think Pink, is accused along with 11 others of dumping or burying 200,000 tonnes of waste between 2015 and 2020, t

A local council in South Korea is offering cash incentives to young people who strike up a relationship following a local matchmaking event. Busan's Saha district office is offering 1 million won (around €675 or £570) to any couples that form after a mass blind-dating event to be hosted b

A cannabis business has been sanctioned for handing out free ice cream. While cannabis can now be bought and sold for recreational use in Ohio, one dealer has been slapped with a fine of $150,000 – around £115,000 – for handing out free sweet treats as well.

Police in Brazil have launched a crackdown on claw machines on the basis that their unreliable controls defraud players. While many players believe winning prizes — often stuffed toys — from the machines is a matter of skill, they are actually games of chance, according to authorities in

A schoolteacher was investigated by police for "emotional abuse" after asking a pupil to solve a problem on a classroom blackboard. The incident took place in Jeonbuk, South Korea in March but only came to light recently, according to Korean broadcaster SBS.

A brain surgeon is being prosecuted after allegedly allowing his teenage daughter to help drill a hole in a patient's skull. The Austrian doctor, who has not been named, allegedly invited his 13-year-old child to help treat a man who suffered serious head injuries in a forestry accident, Sky News re

Filmmaker Danny Boyle has been banned by a church court from filming scenes for his zombie apocalypse threequel in an English church. The Consistory Court of the Diocese of Newcastle said the Morpeth Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin would be "profaned" by the filming, The Telegraph reports.

A burglar was caught in the middle of a robbery after stopping to read a book on Greek mythology. The 38-year-old man reportedly broke into a flat in the Prati district of Rome but became distracted after picking up a book about Homer's Iliad.

A martial artist who broke the jaw of a 'ghost' with a kick to the face in 2011 has lost a 13-year lawsuit against the amusement park where the incident took place. The unnamed Japanese karate expert's claim that the park was partly responsible has been dismissed by the Osaka High Court.

A man whose head was bleeding after a hair transplant was arrested after refusing to leave a plane. Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier and his female companion were removed from the aircraft at Miami airport, local media reports.

Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been dismissed by the morality police for failing to grow beards. The Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue fired the beardless men – who are among 13,000 people who have been detained for immoral acts

A fugitive accused of murder has been found – working as a police officer. Antonio Riano was wanted for the shooting of Benjamin Becarra, 25, in the US state of Ohio, in 2004.

A town mayor is facing criminal charges after allegedly stashing a bottle of gin in a ditch for a prison work crew. Benjamin "Benji" Cary Cranford, mayor of Thomson, Georgia, is accused of providing prisoners from the nearby Jefferson County Correctional Institute with the bottle of Seagram's Extra

A star American footballer has unexpectedly come to the defence of a woman jailed for stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings. Chris Jones, a player for the Kansas City Chiefs, has offered to pay for the wings in order to secure Vera Liddell's release from prison, USA Today reports.

An American judge has been widely criticised after humiliating a teenage girl who fell asleep during a classroom visit to his court. Judge Kenneth King, of the 36th District Court in Detroit, ordered the 16-year-old girl to change into a jail uniform and sit handcuffed in the dock as punishment, 7 N