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2011-2025 of 2085 Articles
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A woman is threatening legal action against Nestle after she bought a number of KitKats that contained no wafer – only chocolate. Law student Saima Ahmad, 20, has demanded the company give her a lifetime supply of the chocolate or face the consequences.

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A father in Texas accused of stealing his daughter's phone because of an inappropriate text has been acquitted of a misdemeanor charge. Ronald Jackson, 36, was found not guilty by a judge in Dallas, who said there was insufficient evidence.

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A doctor found guilty of various counts of poor performance and professional misconduct has denied he mistook an ankle for an elbow. Dr Omar Hassan Khalafalla Mohamed, 30, claimed the Medical Council Fitness-to-Practice inquiry which found him guilty following an 11-day hearing was intended to discr

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New Zealand police received some unexpected help during a car chase after the suspects were held up – by a flock of sheep. Authorities said the four suspects were “agitated” after 150 sheep slowly crossing the road brought the chase to an end The Guardian reports. And, to add insult to injury,

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A woman who failed a job interview at Poundland said it was because she drew a rubbish picture. Mercedes Cray, 23, was asked to draw a coat of arms representing four things that were important to her. She drew her car, her family, a television – and a shotgun.

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Thieves have stolen $50,000 worth of bull semen from a farm in California. The valuable ejaculate comes from “the top one per cent of the world population ,” owner of the farm, John Azevedo, told CBS Sacramento.

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A policeman in Italy was sacked after he was found clocking into work in his boxer shorts before returning to bed. Alberto Muraglia was wearing only a pair of Y-fronts and a T-shirt because his flat was above his office in a council building in the town of San Remo.

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A Norwegian man foiled a car thief's attempt to steal his vehicle after taking part in a death-defying stunt that local police said "Bruce Willis wouldn't have managed". The 25-year-old man woke in the early hours of Wednesday morning to the sound of his car engine switching on, and immediately ran

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A Buddhist monk who went on a tyre-slashing rampage because he accidentally squashed an insect has been jailed. Julian Glew, 45, who lives in a wood in Pocklington, slashed the tyres of 162 cars after the transgression.

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China has produced a list of “authentic living buddhas” in a bid to crackdown on fraudulent buddhas who are swindling money from believers. The communist country has published the names, locations and photos of 870 “verified” buddhas on the State Administration for Religious Affairs' website

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A prison official in Russia was detained after allegedly stealing 50km of road. Alexander Protopopov, acting deputy chief of Russia's prison service, oversaw the deconstruction of the road in the northern Komi region according to police.

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A crowdfunding account set up for a woman who lost her entire savings on lottery tickets has been shut down after it raised over $800 in seven hours. Cinnamon Nicole, from Tennessee, made the GoFundMe page after she spent her life savings on tickets to win a $1.58 billion jackpot, despite her chance

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Officers policing the US-Mexico border seized almost $500,000 worth of cannabis which was creatively disguised as part of a shipment of carrots. Over 2,817 "carrot-shaped packages" were retrieved from a trailer hauled by a tractor coming over the border, US Customs and Border Protection has said.

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An Australian man's five-year battle to use a crude drawing of a penis as his signature inspired him to enrol at law school, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Jared Hyams, 33, used the phallic sign-off on Australian Electoral Commission documents as "a laugh", but was astonished by the reaction.

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A fugitive in Ohio sent local police a selfie after he objected to the mugshot they published online in a bid to track him down. The 45-year-old, wanted in connection with arson and vandalism offences, sent a better picture - where he is sitting in his car and wearing stylish sunglasses - to the pol

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