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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The founder and ex-leader of France's far-right National Front party has launched legal proceedings against a young man who he says sabotaged the party's election campaign by taking an unflattering picture of him. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the father of National Front leader Marine Le Pen, has launched a d

An English wildlife photographer was “relieved” to win his copyright row with a monkey over a selfie. A San Francisco court found in favour of David Slater, 50, from Monmouthshire, after animal rights activists argued all proceeds from a photo taken in 2011 should go to the monkey.

A married man admitted telling his brother to supply a DNA sample on his behalf in an attempt to avoid making child maintenance payments to the woman he was having an affair with. Vernon Poppleton, 33, fathered the child seven years ago but when the Child Support Agency (CSA) called on him for payme

A father and son duo who attempted to rob a corner shop in Leeds last March dressed as elderly women have been sentenced.

A drugs squad officer in California has been charged with drug offences after he was found to be at the centre of a $2 million marijuana shipment. Christoper Heath, 37, who was part of an anti-drugs squad in Yuba County in the state was arrested with two others after police were informed the men wer

A young Texan who avoided jail after a fatal drink-driving crash by saying he suffered from “affluenza” has been kept in custody by police in Mexico. Ethan Couch, 18, was taken in by police along with his mother Tonya in the town of Puerto Vallarta.

Residents in Penzance, Cornwall are so sick of an overturned car in a hedge near their homes they set up a Facebook page appealing for it to get World Heritage status. The "Get World Heritage status for the upside down car at Ludgvan Leaze" was created by locals after the car was left in the hedge f

A woman in Florida faces a charge of battery for fighting with her husband – because he would not stop farting in bed. Donald Fitzroy Meikle told police that his wife Dawn elbowed him as he passed gas before eventually pushing him out of bed.