And Finally

Thieves broke into a ninja museum in Japan this week and stole more than a million yen. The Iga-ryu Ninja museum, dedicated to the history and practices of ninja, suffered the break-in on Monday morning.

A police officer has been rescued by firefighters after getting his hands stuck in his own handcuffs. The core training sergeant for Northamptonshire's police force, Scott Renwick, admitted in a tweet that he got stuck in the broken handcuffs and had to be rescued by the local fire service.

Dog owners in Germany will be legally required to take their pets outdoors for exercise for half an hour at least twice a day. The new draft law proposes to change animal welfare law to ensure pets are not confined to kennels all day and are given enough outdoor exercise, The Times reports.

Italy's Supreme Court has made a landmark decision regarding parent's obligations to financially support their children, following a five year legal battle between a 35-year-old man and his parents. The claimant is a part-time music teacher from Florence who was living with his parents while he was

After a 46-year pursuit, a police officer has caught the man who shot him. In 1971, Daril Cinquanta, a young police officer in Denver, was shot in the chest by a man in a parked car who he had tried to stop and ID.

A fox has been revealed as the culprit of a shoe-stealing spree after it was caught red-handed with a pair of stolen flip-flops. Residents of the Zehlendorf neighbourhood in Berlin had reported to the local media that around 100 shoes had mysteriously gone missing from outside homes.

Trowels will be left in 90 lay-bys in parts of the Scottish Highlands for people who desperately need the toilet to dig a hole and deposit their waste. Lochbroom Community Council Chairman Topher Dawson said the trowels would be an "emergency, last resort" for people who cannot access toilets.

A woman who recently renewed her driver's license was left laughing after the new license came back with a photo of an empty chair.

The family of Benito Mussolini have sparked controversy after demanding that the fascist's crypt be turned into a national monument. The Mussolini family lawyer sent a letter to the mayor of Predappio, Mussolini's home town, calling for the tomb to be turned into a monument supported with taxpayer m

Government officials and politicians in Ukraine have reportedly been encouraged to pre-book "VIP cells" in the event of their arrest. Remand centres in over a dozen cities are now offering gift certificates for "luxury cells", which are valid for six months from purchase, the BBC reports.

Argentina's former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is suing Google after a search for her name allegedly identified her as the country's "thief in chief". She alleges that Google displayed her position as "thief in chief of Argentina" on 17 May 2020 instead of vice-president of Argen

An arbitrary and long-standing ban on aspiring lawyers in Texas bringing their own menstrual products to the bar exam has been lifted following renewed criticism. Law professors in the state wrote to the Texas Board of Law Examiners last month, highlighting a national plea from nearly 3,000 law prof

A mother who allegedly dug a ten-metre-long, three-metre-tall tunnel in a bid to break her son out of prison has been arrested. Police believe that the 51-year-old woman had been working on the tunnel in southern Ukraine for at least three weeks before being caught.

A treasure hunter who posted his rare finds online has been arrested for allegedly plundering archaeological sites with a metal detector. The 34-year-old man, who has not been named, apparently uploaded photos of his huge collection of Phoenician gold jewellery and Islamic, Roman and Visigoth artefa

Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin has missed a self-imposed writing deadline after which he promised that fans could "imprison him". The fantasy author is still working on The Winds of Winter, the long-awaited sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, which was adapted for TV as Game