A man was left baffled after police told him he failed his disclosure check because he was executed a decade ago.
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An alleged criminal used a drone to film people using an ATM in a high-tech enterprise reported to police last June.
The city of Munich has applied to the European Union Intellectual Property Office for exclusive rights to the Oktoberfest name.
A one-hour slug hunt twice a year could solve Norway's problem with the invasive Spanish slug, a local political party has said.
A police raid on a drug kingpin's prison cell uncovered such luxuries as a plasma TV, a treadmill and a library of books and DVDs.
A man who hid seven grams of cocaine under his foreskin has been returned to jail for 12 weeks.
A province in eastern China has banned civil servants' boozy working lunches — after several of them DIED from alcohol poisoning.
A Japanese steakhouse faces legal action after a man claimed part of a dinner show where his wife was squirted with water from a plastic toy was a "sexual-style assault".
A non-Spanish-speaking teacher is suing the Southern District of Florida for refusing to let her teach the language.
A woman has launched a legal case at the High Court in London in an attempt to stop her neighbours from from using spicy chillies in their cooking.
An American man relived a plotline from TV sitcom Seinfeld by allegedly attempting to profit from a neighbouring state's bottle deposit scheme. Brian Everidge will appear in court charged with one felony count of beverage return of non-refundable bottles - a charge carrying penalties of up to five y
Residents of a Colorado town have been warned not to drink tap water after it repeatedly tested positive for THC, the main psychoactive component in cannabis. The alarm was raised after field tests on tap water in the town of Hugo, population 720, returned positive results.
Sniffer dogs are to be recruited in Greece to sniff out potential tax dodgers who try to take cash out of the crisis-hit country. The Finance Ministry said it would be constructing a team to assess tenders for the provision of dogs tasked with detecting cash.
Cunning cops have tried to lure in fugitives with the promise of catching a rare Pokémon in GPS-based mobile game sensation Pokémon Go. A tongue-in-cheek invitation extended on Facebook to a list of more than 500 "lucky" fugitives urges them to hurry to the police headquarters' booking area.
A man has been accused of using a stolen human brain to get high. Joshua Long, 26, was charged with abuse of a corpse after a relative discovered a human brain stuffed into a WalMart bag.