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A Florida “doctor” who became infamous for injecting her patients' rear ends with tyre fluid has been sentenced to a decade behind bars. Oneal Ron Morris, known as the “Fix-a-Flat doctor”, was jailed after one of her butt-injections went horribly wrong, the Washington Post reports.

A 17-year-old girl who made an online game where users attack Donald Trump's face with kitten claws is facing legal action. Lucy built the game to practise her web programming skills, but soon received a cease and desist letter from Trump's general counsel in Trump Tower, the New York Observer repor

Two men have been arrested for allegedly smuggling cocaine inside giant fake bananas. Police checking a shipment of bananas in Valencia and Malaga were stunned to find that some of the "fruit" was really made of resin - and that 15.4 pounds of cocaine had been stuffed into the fake bananas.

A right-wing politician has been jailed for two years for buying sex toys with council funds. Pius Leitner, a councillor for South Tyrol's secessionist party Die Freiheitlichen, did the crime and is now doing the time after he was found guilty of embezzlement after using public money to purchase thr

A Florida woman was arrested after a gung-ho 3-year-old she left in her car swiped her handgun and shattered one of the windows with a gunshot. Abbie Maldonado left the toddler in the parked car at Good Shepherd Academy, where she was picking up her son.

A Swedish hotel chain has begun offering refunds to couples who get divorced within a year of staying at one of its hotels. The Countryside Hotels group’s offer is meant to be a “relationship guarantee”, with the chain offering to reimburse the cost of a two-night stay.

Indian opium farmers are as sick as a parrot at losing up to 10 per cent of their crop to flocks of feathered addicts which have adapted their behaviour to avoid detection. Stoned parrots are routinely now falling off their perches after gorging themselves on the pods of opium-yielding poppies.

A spate of toilet roll thefts in the Temple of Heaven park in Beijing has prompted the management to install a facial recognition toilet paper dispensing system to deter thieves. The newly installed machines scan visitors' faces for three seconds before issuing a ration of 24 to 27.5 inches of toile

A convicted drug dealer could have his sentence extended by 34 years after authorities caught his girlfriend trying to smuggle methamphetamine to him in jail – concealed in a Holy Bible. Stephen Jason Estes, 41, was in a county jail in Mississippi awaiting transfer to a state prison when his girlf

A man's illegal tryst with the chain-link fence along the edge of his property has apparently been brought to a tragic end. Eliodoro Estala, 32, has been charged with indecent exposure after neighbour Diana Vazquez turned over video footage which she said showed him consummating the unlikely dallian

Photo credit: New Zealand Police A bald killer serving life in a New Zealand jail has won a court battle to have his toupee returned to him with a High court judge ruling that by denying him his hairpiece prison authorities "ignored" the prisoner's "fundamental right to freedom of expression".

The New York Supreme Court, in a case unrelated to White House shenanigans, will sit today to rule on whether chimpanzees deserve to be accorded the rights of "personhood". Two chimpanzees, Tommy and Kiko, are to be represented by the Nonhuman Rights Project in the appellate division of the court, w

Police officers in a small town have started fetching McDonald's meals for inmates after their station's catering contract fell through. Those being held in the police station jail have been offered a choice of a hamburger, a cheeseburger or a veggie burger from a McDonald's outlet across the street

A Russian blogger has gone on trial for religious hate crimes because he played Pokémon Go in a church. Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, was charged with inciting religious hatred after publishing video footage of him playing the popular mobile game in the Yekaterinburg church where the last Russian tsar was

Robbers who meticulously planned a sophisticated jewellery heist were left disappointed after realising that their haul consisted of bread. Qasim Hussain, 28, Hassan Mahmood, 26, and Naheem Hussain, 27, have been given hefty jail sentences for the theft of sandwiches, Tupperware and assorted groceri