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A US politician has introduced a new bill to archive the President's social media posts - the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement (COVFEFE) Bill. The snarkily-titled bill has been introduced to the House of Representatives by Mike Quigley, Democrat congressman from Illino

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A disgruntled McDonald's customer called 911 after leaving the restaurant because staff took too long to prepare her chicken nuggets. The bizarre incident went down in a drive-through in Waco, Texas.

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A trial taking place in one of Glasgow's newest courtrooms was called to a halt after the jury box collapsed. A sudden creaking noise interrupted proceedings during a rape trial in the £1 million east courtroom in the High Court in Glasgow.

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Arch enemies across Canada will be rejoicing at the news that a law prohibiting duels is to be repealed. Section 71 of the country’s Criminal Code makes illegal "challenges or attempts by any means to provoke another person to fight a duel".

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An arranged marriage in Tamil Nadu, India went off script when the groom's brother unexpectedly married the bride instead. The Bollywood-esque twist happened last Thursday as a man intended to marry a 20-year-old woman at Bala Murugan Temple at Ilayampatti.

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A Mexican lawyer is marketing Donald Trump-branded toilet paper in protest of the US president's insults towards Mexican people. Corporate lawyer Antonio Battaglia's new product, which will go on sale in Mexico later this year, is marketed under the slogan "Softness without borders" and "This is the

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A businessman is seeking to trademark “covfefe”, a typo from a recent tweet by US President Donald Trump. If Tim Saciri’s application is accepted, the word will be registered under his name and will become a Swiss trademark.

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A serial litigant who claimed that "sheep are descended from Jacob" has been banned from filing further cases in the High Court. Donna Sfar, from Co Louth, has issued 24 separate judicial review proceedings since 1999, the Irish Examiner reports.

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A senior Indian judge has come under fire after suggesting that peacocks follow "life-long celibacy". Judge Mahesh Sharma of the Rajasthan High Court said the peacock's purported "pious" celibacy was why it is India's national bird.

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A man has been convicted of defamation for liking Facebook posts. The unnamed 45-year-old man was convicted in a Swiss court on Monday after liking several Facebook posts in 2015 which accused the CEO of an animal rights group of racism and anti-Semitism.

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A top Palestinian judge is postponing divorces during the fasting month of Ramadan as he believes people may make hasty decisions "because they have not eaten and not smoked". Mahmoud al-Habbash is Supreme Qadi (or Sharia judge) in the Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank.

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A man accused of robbery has been refused a request to juggle for the jury to show that he is simply a "jester" with misunderstood motives. In a hand-written motion submitted to the court, Orlando Melendez, 20, denied accusations that he attempted to rob a shop with a toy gun.

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A man whose wife changed her surname for a supermarket promotion was caught on film taking revenge — by filling her car with cement. The man was seen on video outside a St Petersburg grocery shop using a cement-mixing truck to dump the substance through the car window.

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A defendant who made the mistake of addressing a judge as "mate" was escorted back to the cells for his disrespect. Sebastian Stroud, 35, gave a casual response when Judge Simon Cooper asked how he was going to pay a backlog of fines.

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Sainsbury's has come into conflict with the Fairtrade Foundation over plans to launch its own brand of "ethical" tea. The supermarket, which is the world's largest retailer of Fairtrade products, has announced a pilot project called Fairly Traded.

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