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Baffled police have freed a man who got stuck in a chimney while trying to rescue his dog from a locked toilet. The 35-year-old man was locked out of a park building in Connecticut on Saturday night when the doors automatically locked at 10pm.

A law enforcement official who declared he has "zero tolerance for street racing" has been filmed street racing. Video footage shared online appears to show Carmine Marceno, head of Lee County Sheriff's Office in Florida, taking off in a Ferrari while his friend filming shouts: "Juice that motherfuc

French president Emmanuel Macron has called for house music to be recognised by Unesco as part of France's intangible cultural history. It appears to be a direct response to Berlin's techno scene being recognised as part of Germany's national intangible cultural heritage last year.

Two rival sausage makers are set for a courtroom battle amid allegations of corporate espionage. Hormel Foods alleges in a US lawsuit that Johnsonville conspired with two of Hormel's former employees to obtain sausage recipes and sensitive commercial information, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports.

A courtroom livestream has captured the excruciating moment when a lawyer accidentally addressed a woman judge as "honey". A short clip from the hearing in the Colorado Court of Appeals on Tuesday has circulated widely on Bluesky, where it has been seen thousands of times.

A museum has appealed for two tourists who broke a crystal-encrusted chair by sitting on it to come forward and apologise. CCTV footage shows the couple taking turns posing for photos with the artwork at the Palazzo Maffei in Verona, Italy before the man accidentally sits on and breaks it.

A seagull took a sip of a man's coffee before flying off with his mug. Darren Pardoe, a maintenance worker, was bird-proofing houses in the English town of Porthleven in Cornwall, when he took a coffee break at a local pub on 3 June.

A man who changed his name to Lucifer Of-Darkness had his assault charge called at court on Friday the 13th. Of-Darkness, 41, is accused of punching a man in Edinburgh, Scotland. Formerly Berkani Nahim, Of-Darkness allegedly caused severe injury to Christopher Jamieson on May 29.

An American police force has come under fire after inviting officers to join the SWAT unit if they are "jonesing to fire less lethal rounds at fleeing suspects". Oregon State Police tried unsuccessfully to prevent the release of the internal recruitment email to The Oregonian, arguing that it reveal

A local newspaper has successfully defended a lawsuit brought by a father who complained that it had failed to cover his son's high school basketball games. Vermont man Robert Lafayette sued the Burlington Free Press and two of its journalists, alleging that its coverage of high school sports was no

A Twix advert has been banned in the UK for encouraging dangerous driving. The minute-long advert shows a race between two cars, one of which tumbles down a cliff and lands upside down on the other, becoming joined sunroof to sunroof.

A senior corporate lawyer has come forward to claim a mysterious pile of cash seemingly abandoned near rubbish bins. Thai lawyer Thaweewat Sengkaew turned up at a police station to claim ownership of the 12 million baht in cash (around €322,100 or £272,300).

A runaway zebra has been caught by police and airlifted back to his owner after absconding for over a week. Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee said the zebra, named Ed, was finally tracked down on Sunday after several sightings.

A city's ban on yoga classes in public parks and beaches has been rubbished by a court. The US city of San Diego’s ban on yoga classes was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court, which found the activity protected by the First Amendment.

A pedestrian safety activist is facing a criminal trial after making his own crossing with chalk. Charlottesville, Virginia man Kevin Cox used what he said was spray chalk to create a makeshift pedestrian crossing at an intersection where a fatal accident took place last October.