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A determined thief made off with a £2,000 mountain bike after using a saw and evident expertise to cut down the tree to which it was tethered. When the 28-year-old owner returned to his bike, he found that it was missing, along with the better part of the corresponding tree.

A South African judge frustrated by courtroom delays has started holding late lawyers liable for their clients' court costs. Judge Francis Legodi, president of Mpumalanga High Court, has ordered a state-employed lawyer to personally pay the costs associated with a case that was postponed due to late

A lawmaker in Russia has called for "mockery" of the national football team to be banned as players are “fighting for the honour of our country”. Vitaly Milonov said players and their coach should be considered like “our diplomats, our army” during the World Cup.

A business has been fined over its "try before you buy" scheme – for sex dolls. Gateshead-based LD Europe Ltd, which trades as Lovedoll UK, was letting customers have "first hand experience" of the dolls in a bedroom on its premises.

British immigration officials have allegedly been promised cake and chocolates if they arrest more migrants than their colleagues. A whistleblower told the PCS trade union, which has criticised the practice: "Whoever made the most arrests in a month would get cake and possibly a box of Roses. This w

A young clarinet player has been awarded over £200,000 in damages after suing his ex-girlfriend for sabotaging his scholarship. Eric Abramovitz was offered a full scholarship from Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, worth about £38,000 a year, but the email was intercepted by his then-gi

A lawyer has been jailed after he duped a former S&M dungeon master into believing the latter had won damages from Channel 4. Andrew Davies, 34, told his client, retired dungeon master Shaun O'Driscoll, he was to receive £710,000 after making complaints about the show Me and My Slaves, a docume

Police are looking for the source of €36,000 found inside a church confession booth, possibly from a repentant crook. The sum comprised €50 notes stuffed inside two plastic bags and was found under the priest's seat in the confessional in Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci church, near the Va

The tackle which saw Liverpool's Mohamed Salah leave the pitch just 30 minutes into his team's Champions League final against Real Madrid last month has featured in a law exam. The question reads: "Sergio Ramos injured Mohamed Salah in the 2018 European Champions League final. Naturally, Ramos canno

Police in Turkmenistan have been inspecting bathrooms after reports of locals using newspapers with photos of the country's president – as toilet roll. Police in the western region of Balkan instructed community policing officers to inspect public toilets and private houses for evidence of people

A piper was arrested on Edinburgh's famous Royal Mile after police approached him about playing his bagpipes too loudly. John McDonald was arrested for refusing to give his details to police when they approached him as part of Edinburgh City Council and Police Scotland's attempts to tackle noisy str

A breakdancing FBI agent accidentally shot a man in the leg as he tried to pick up a gun he dropped while doing a handstand. A bystander recorded a video of the incident in which the off-duty agent performed a wild dance at a bar in downtown Denver, which culminated in a handstand, causing the gun t

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was forced to walk home in colourful shorts after someone stole his clothes while he went swimming at a lake near his apartment in Potsdam. Witnesses said the thief shouted "No swimming fun for Nazis!" as he stole the clothes of 77-year-ol

Thieves have made off with the irreplaceable doors of a sixteenth-century castle in Co Laois, the owners have announced. David Butler, who owns Ballyadams Castle near Ballylinan, said the heavy wooden doors were noticed missing on Saturday.

Police are on the hunt for three people who allegedly fled from a cosmetic surgery clinic without paying a £2,000 bill. The two women and one man had Botox and lip enhancers injected at Persona Cosmetic Medicine Clinic in south-east London.