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Mike Tyson paid out $8 million to a fan who he cracked on the jaw for requesting his autograph, the famous US boxer has said. Speaking on his podcast, Tyson said he fell into a habit of "hitting people because they're f***ing with me too much for autographs".

A grown woman brought her father to court to break all ties after he cheated in a family game of Ludo. The 24-year-old woman told Bhopal Family Court in the Madhya Pradesh state of India that her father's cheating had broken her trust.

Rival rabbit breeders were left with broken ribs and bloodied noses after a prize rabbit show descended into chaos. The fight broke out at Germany's 27th Federal Buck Rabbit Show when rival breeders accused Jurgen Erdmann of cheating by giving his rabbits skin grafts.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being honoured by a Scottish football team who have put the late US jurist's name on their kit this season. The US Supreme Court justice, who passed away at the age of 87 earlier this week, was well-known for championing women's rights.

A drug trafficker has escaped a death sentence in a Shawshank Redemption-style escape through prison sewers. Chai Changpan, 53, has been on death row in Jakarta, Indonesia since being convicted in 2017 of smuggling 135kg of crystal meth.

A man who allegedly slept as his self-driving car broke speed limits on a busy road has been charged with dangerous driving. Police in Alberta, Canada tracked down the 2019 Tesla Model S – which is equipped with a "partially autonomous" system – after a complaint of a car speeding on the

Rare books worth more than £2 million that were stolen in January 2017 have been discovered in rural Romania. The collection, which includes important works from the Renaissance period, was taken by crooks in a daring raid in which they abseiled into a warehouse, near Heathrow, after cutting h

A former rugby international has gone on trial accused of eating sparrows, robins and other songbirds protected under law. Dax criminal court in the southwest of France heard that Jean-Pierre Bastiat, 71, who was part of the 1977 France team that won the Five Nations tournament, was suspected of buy

A £400 million collection of rare stamps and other paraphernalia including calligraphy by Chairman Mao has been stolen. The items were stolen from a flat in Hong Kong belonging to Fu Chunxiao, who is a citizen of the mainland and is well known in collecting circles.

A dentist who extracted a patient's tooth while riding a hoverboard has been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment on various charges. Alaskan Seth Lookhart was caught on camera using the hoverboard while carrying out the procedure, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

A woman who married a tree has marked their first wedding anniversary, The Mirror reports. Kate Cunningham, 38, who took the surname "Elder" upon marrying an elder tree said they have no plans to divorce.

The embittered love child of the former Belgian king who abdicated in 2013 is suing for the right to use the royal title of princess. Albert II, now 86, finally admitted earlier this year, after a court-ordered DNA test, that Delphine Boël is his daughter.

A Florida man who fled from a large alligator in his storage shed was left embarrassed after police discovered it was a swimming pool inflatable. The man had gone into his shed to fetch boxes but was startled by the large inflatable and told his wife to call the police.

A police dog reared from a puppy into an "absolute unit" has been retired before his first day of duty for being too "sweet-natured". Balou was eight weeks old when acquired by police in Bremerhaven, Germany, and was trained for nearly a year-and-a-half, The Times reports.

A mob boss is facing assault charges after allegedly biting off and swallowing a prison guard's finger. Giuseppe Fanara, 60, has been serving a life sentence in Sicily for nearly two decades after murdering a police officer.