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A small German town has removed a children's song about a fox stealing a goose from its repertoire of town hall bell melodies, after a vegan resident protested. The picture-book town of Limburg an der Lahn in Hesse entertains its locals with tunes chimed out by its town hall glockenspiel or carillio

It had to happen. Police have charged a couple with voyeurism by electronic equipment for allegedly sending up a drone to peep into residents' bathrooms and bedrooms in apartment buildings in Utah. Aaron Foote, 39, and his 34-year-old girlfriend, Terisha Lee Norviel, were apprehended after a man saw

A Swedish couple had an unexpected climax to their kinky love-making session when they had to call the cops after losing the keys for their handcuffs. It was not a happy ending for the couple when they were unable to open the steel cuffs.

A man has been charged with arson after cops collected data from his pacemaker. Ross Compton denies setting his home on fire and insurance fraud charges.

A jailed mafia boss is suing prison authorities for $10 million after slipping and fracturing his knee during a game of table tennis. Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli, a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family, is suing over an injury he suffered during a game at the Metropolitan Detention Center

A French businessman is suing Uber claiming the taxi company negligently alerted his wife to his adultery, leading to the break-up of his marriage. The Riviera-based businessman says he once used his wife's mobile phone to hail an Uber driver and that, despite logging off, the company continued to s

A former employee of the Royal Canadian Mint has been jailed for 30 months for stealing gold coins — by hiding them in his rectum. Leston Lawrence, 35, stole CA$165,451 in 22 pieces.

A judge who said he mistakenly handed down a 10-day sentence to a cannabis trafficker instead of a 10-month sentence has failed in his attempts to re-sentence the offender. Charles Bentil, 46, lucked out when he came before US District Judge James C. Cacheris last April after violating his parole te

A monk was arrested after being caught with more than four million methamphetamine pills in his monastery and car. Police were tipped off that the Buddhist renunciant was in possession of the drugs and stopped him in the northern state of Rakhine in Myanmar.

Cops are on the hunt for thieves who raided a first-class tea plantation producing "the best tea in the world". Sneaky tea-snatchers made off with thousands of plants after raiding the remote Dalreoch Farm site in Perthshire, Scotland as owner Tam O'Braan recovered from an illness elsewhere.

Police were left red-faced on Friday after calling out the bomb squad to blow up a suspicious car left outside a cop station in Cumbria. Only after the car had been blown up did it emerge that the vehicle had been parked outside Workington police station by other officers who had helped the owner wh

A prominent pastor was forced to run out of a house naked after a woman's husband came home to find him communing with his wife. Pastor O. Jermaine Simmons was caught in flagrante delicto with a member of his flock on the afternoon of 17 January.

Police have arrested a supply teacher on an indecency charge after she is alleged to have done a cartwheel in front of students while wearing a skirt but no underwear. The Pawhuska Police Department said a student recorded the incident, which is being treated as indecent exposure, on a mobile phone.

A deputy sheriff caught stealing $200 from a drink driving suspect on his own body camera as been branded a "thieving idiot" by his boss. Volusia County sheriff's deputy John Braman resigned from his $60,000 a year job on Monday after the state attorney's office released a video of the officer purlo

Two Burger King employees have been arrested after telling their bosses whoppers and using their drive-through restaurant as a front for a drug-dealing operation. Customers would call the burger joint and ask for ‘extra crispy’ fries to request a narcotic extra with their order to make their dou