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A polygamist with three wives and ten children has told a court that he helped to defraud the US government of nearly $470 million (€434m). The huge sum obtained through a clean energy subsidy scam was allegedly spent on real estate in the US and Turkey and expensive cars including a $1.7 milli

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A property developer has been ordered to remove up to 20 floors from the top of a nearly-completed block of flats. The 52-storey tower was targeted by local community campaigners who said developers abused planning rules to build it.

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A fraudster who hid from police by pretending to be a nun has been jailed after being ousted from a convent. The 47-year-old Italian woman, who has not been named, moved from convent to convent to evade prison after a 2017 conviction for fraud.

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A 101-year-old man was told by UK immigration authorities to have his parents confirm his identity. Giovanni Palmerio, who has lived in London since 1966, hit the obstacle after applying to the EU settlement scheme to stay in the UK after Brexit, The Guardian reports.

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English football star David Beckham may have to rename his new US football club just weeks before its first game after a major legal setback. Beckham is president of Inter Miami, a fresh-faced Major League Soccer (MLS) club locked in a trademark dispute with 111-year-old Italian club Inter Milan.

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A couple who regretted taking free advice from an architect friend are facing a £1 million legal bill after a failed lawsuit against her. Peter and Lynn Burgess say the transformation of the garden at their £5 million London home would have been completed quicker and more cheaply without

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Police officers in New York City will swap their notebooks for an iPhone app in a move upending a century of tradition. The iconic "memo book" in which officers have taken handwritten notes since the 1800s will be scrapped next Monday, The New York Times reports.

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A pair of senior Russian police officers have been spared jail after creating a drug den to later bust. They convinced three known drug users to manufacture and consume the opioid "krokodil" in a flat using ingredients they stole from police evidence stores.

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Men who stole prized racing pigeons worth more than €700,000 have been caged for three years. The thieves were also ordered to pay €320,000 in damages after wiretap evidence helped secure their convictions.

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A large stash of drugs was seized by police after officers checked two bags labelled "bag full of drugs".

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Police responding to reports of a child calling for help were relieved to find that the screams were coming from a goat. A man in Ottawa called police after hearing what sounded like a child calling for help from a nearby wooded area, CBC reports.

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An item of jewellery has become the bane of a police force after it appealed for help in finding its "rightful owner". The item in question is a replica of the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings.

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A suspected phone thief has been arrested after police allegedly found more than 30 mobile phones in his cycle shorts. Police recovered the phones after blocking the exits at a rock concert when dozens of people reported lost phones.

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A man has been jailed after brazenly smoking a joint while in the dock for alleged possession of cannabis. After delivering a polemic against the criminalisation of the drug, Spencer Boston, 20, pulled out a joint and lit it.

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Parents can not name their children after the Devil, naming authorities in Iceland have ruled. The country's naming committee, which regulates baby names, refused a request to add "Lusifer" to its official register.

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