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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

A software engineer has been arrested after allegedly hacking into his former employer's database in an attempt to get his job back. Vikesh Sharma, 35, was sacked from his job as a senior software engineer at a Delhi-based company earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police have been left baffled following the theft of an entire wooden building from a sports centre.

The head of a convent has been ordered by religious leaders to give up a £100,000 Mercedes bought with charitable donations. Mother Superior Feofaniya, based in Moscow, bought the expensive Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan in 2016.

A goat has been arrested for wandering around without wearing a mask. The animal was roaming freely when it was picked up by police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and taken to a local police station.

The maker of the famous Ritter Sport square chocolate bars has won a protracted legal battle for the exclusive right to sell square chocolate bars in its home country. The company registered its iconic square shape as a trademark in Germany in 1993, but rival chocolatier Milka has since sought to pr

Police are on the hunt for a thief who stole an enormous, metre-long dildo called "Moby" from a sex shop. The dildo weighs nearly 20 kilograms and retails for around £1,000 ($1,250), HuffPost reports.

A man who allegedly attempted to fake his own death to avoid a jail sentence was arrested after prosecutors noticed a typo in his supposed death certificate. The document submitted to authorities in New York State looked genuine except the word "registry" was spelled "regsitry", NBC News reports.

A police force has been criticised for using drones to catch topless or nude bathers at a secluded beach. Officers deployed high-tech surveillance devices to a lakeside beach in the US state of Minnesota following reports of immodest visitors.

A man sawed his neighbour's garage in half following a dispute over the boundary line between the two properties. Construction worker Gabriel Brawn used a reciprocating saw to destroy half of the structure after a land surveyor confirmed that the garage straddled the boundary line between the two ho