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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A hotel is facing a lawsuit after a patron at its bar got so drunk that he fell off his stool. David Waugaman, 57, is seeking thousands in damages after he took a tumble following four hours of drinking.

A US law enforcement agency is removing a Bible verse from its patrol vehicles after complaints from secular groups. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office has proudly displayed Matthew 5:9 on its vehicles since a makeover in March.

A man is suing a woman for the cost of a cinema ticket because she texted during a date. Brandon Vezmar, 37, said the woman left the screening after he complained about her phone use.

An hotelier in India has expressed exasperation over the closure of his property amid false allegations he was serving beef. Forensic tests on meat served at the Hayat Rabbani hotel in the state of Rajasthan indicated it was, in fact, chicken, the Hindustan Times reports.

A lawyer who was sanctioned for objecting 600 times during a routine deposition had less to say when confronted by reporters. Amatuallah Booth, a senior assistant corporation counsel, for New York City’s Law Department, was reticent when approached by New York Post reporters about her bizarre beha

The law has caught up with a lawyer who supplied his own blood for testing instead of his client's over a decade ago. On June 7, 2006, a client of former solicitor Alex Ardalich, 66, was stopped for a breath test. He tested positive and was found to be more than double the legal limit after a second

An art dealer who left a £1.3 million 'spacialist' masterpiece in the boot of Parisian taxi has filed a complaint for theft after forgetting the picture. The dealer, who was not named by police, was on his way to meet an art collector in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.

A French photographer has launched an exhibition highlighting ‘Gingerism’, the abuse and prejudice suffered by red-heads. Red-haired snapper Pascal Sacleux has produced a mosaic of stunning portraits of 30 fellow gingers to stress that endless jokes about red hair are no laughing matter and lead