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Sweden's central bank has pleaded to residents to turn in 41 million old bank notes which have not been legal tender since June. The Riksbank said outdated 20, 50 and 1,000 krona notes worth a total of 1.3 billion krona (€136 million) had not been deposited despite tomorrow's deadline for free exc

A Glasgow man who boasted online about dodging his community service has been sent to jail by a judge who added: "As they say, LOL." David Newlands, 24, was sentenced to 150 hours community service for punching a vulnerable man, but refused to carry it out.

An Austrian man has won his 10-year court battle against a swimming pool that overcharged him for entry by €2.50. The unnamed man travelled to a German spa in the Bavarian Alps where locals were offered a generous discount.

Traffic police in central India have embraced an unlikely solution to night-time traffic accidents involving straw cattle: attaching glow-in-the-dark strips to their horns. Kailash Chauhan, traffic police inspector for Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh state, said action was taken after a spate of

A group of fruit smugglers is suspected to have moonlighted as civil engineers after a poorly-kept country road on the Russian border was mysteriously improved. Border agencies were left scratching their heads after expensive equipment was covertly used overnight to "widen and raise the gravel track

Cops in the Filipino capital have been banned from picking their noses and scratching themselves in a bid to improve their reputation. The new rules, outlined in a memorandum from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), also include bans on selfies, smoking, chewing gum or playing online

An alleged crime duo awaiting trial for forging government documents escaped jail using forged court documents, it has emerged. Mohammed Lukman Shaikh, 48, and Bashir Mulla, 62, secured bail using fake documents signed by non-existing cops and guarantors.

A cannabis plant and a number of horses are among items stolen from police care in the West Midlands, the BBC has reported. Police forces listed items lost between 2011-16 after the BBC submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

Employees at a company in eastern China have been handed fines for not commenting on their boss’s social media posts, the Beijing Youth Daily reports. At a travel agency in Jinan, over 200 workers were fined 50 yuan (£5.70) each for failing to comment on CEO Zhang Ming’s Weibo posts – an arra

A bizarre instance of road rage between two middle-aged German men led to one denting the other's BMW with his foot-long sausage. News of the incident - in which police say a massive pork product was allegedly hurled at the vehicle - emerged in Die Welt.

Thieves who nicked a box of chemicals from the back of a pick-up truck will be disappointed once they open what they probably thought were drug-making materials, the New Zealand Herald reports. The stolen materials, far from being fit to produce illegal drugs, are actually oils made from the anal gl

A judge has castigated a vexatious litigant for describing his occupation as “a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ”. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said the courts were right to refuse to accept a sworn statement with the “fanciful” occupation listed.

A judge has banned a man from ordering pizza as part of his bail conditions. Randy Riddle, 49, is charged with four counts of harassing phone calls, two counts of first-degree petty theft and one count of second-degree petty theft.

A Crown Court judge hit back at a foul-mouthed neo-Nazi's verbal abuse by throwing back some of her own. John Hennigan, 50, as he was being sentenced for breach of an Asbo, told Judge Patricia Lynch that she was a "bit of a c**t".

A man was forced to postpone the sale of his home after he realised he had been living next door to the flat he owns.