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An attempted armed robbery in Australia failed after the would-be victim pulled out a larger knife. Evoking the famous scene in the film Crocodile Dundee, café manager Johan David Cruz Arevalo scared off a knife-wielding robber.

A hair salon that invoked the authority of Magna Carta faces a fine of £27,000 for repeatedly breaching the lockdown rules. Sinead Quinn, owner of Quinn Blakey Hairdressers in Oakenshaw, Bradford, was working when Kirklees Council issued a fine for £4,000 and thereafter two more for &pou

A former gymnast has reportedly defected from North Korea to the south by vaulting a three-metre high border fence. South Korean media said officials who found and detained the man were so astonished they asked him twice to show his jumping skills.

A man who held a cardboard sign with a smiley face outside of a police station has been arrested for taking part in an illegal protest. Jolovan Wham was arrested in Singapore after the brief one-man demonstration in solidarity with arrested climate activists, The Guardian reports.

Online shoppers who shelled out hundreds of pounds for a new PlayStation 5 console have been left disappointed after instead receiving bags of grain, cat food or nothing at all. Amazon has announced an investigation into what it said was a "small proportion" of orders which had apparently fallen vic

The Vatican has launched an investigation after the Pope appeared to like a titillating photo on Instagram. A photo of Brazilian model Natalia Garibotto in a revealing "schoolgirl" outfit was briefly liked by the Pope's account, @franciscus.

A police officer who allegedly scanned a box of expensive Krispy Kreme doughnuts at a self-service checkout as a single carrot is facing a misconduct hearing. Cambridgeshire police officer Simon Read could be sacked over allegations he paid just seven pence for a £9.95 box of doughnuts in Febr

A High Court judge whose father was a law lord has been used as an example of diversity on the bench by the Judicial Office of England and Wales. Mrs Justice Steyn appears in a video answering questions on how she got into law and the obstacles she faced in her career, Legal Cheek reports.

A man suspected of stealing Pope John Paul II's blood has been identified by Italian police. The vial of blood, taken from the pope shortly before his death in 2005, was stolen from a cathedral in September.

Breast implants filled with liquid cocaine have been recovered in an anti-drugs police operation in Colombia. Police believe a gang in Cali, southwest of Bogotá, has been using the implants to ferry drugs to Spain, The Times reports.

Bribes paid to private individuals will no longer be tax-deductible in Switzerland under new rules coming into effect in 2022. The changes will bring Swiss tax laws in line with its criminal code, which banned bribes to private individuals in 2015, the BBC reports.

Techno is music, a top German court has ruled in a move with tax benefits for the country's legendary clubbing scene. The Federal Fiscal Court (BFH) agreed that tickets to club nights should benefit from the same VAT discount as concerts, Euronews reports.

A police force has deployed speed cameras disguised as portable toilets in a bid to catch speeding motorists. The unusual toilet-cameras sit on the roadside on trailers hooked to vans to seem less conspicuous.

The former king of Spain is facing an investigation by Spanish prosecutors over his alleged failure to declare donations from a Mexican businessman. Juan Carlos lost his constitutional immunity after his abdication in 2014 and can therefore be prosecuted for any wrongdoings committed after that date

Two dairy factory workers have been arrested in connection with a viral video showing one of them taking a bath in a milk tank. A video uploaded to TikTok shows a worker at the factory in south-central Turkey fully submerged in milk and pouring it over himself.