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Police in Texas successfully apprehended a man who ran from police during a traffic stop after a field of cows gave him away. Samuel White, who was pulled over for speeding, led police on a high-speed chase after being told he faced arrest.

Donald Trump, presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential election, was left embarrassed after it emerged his lawyer has donated thousands of dollars to opponent Hillary Clinton's campaign. Trump is currently embroiled in legal action over the now-defunct Trump University, in which he's re

A man in New Mexico has claimed he deliberately set his flat on fire because his neighbours were having sex too loudly. According to the complaint, Reuben Cook, 36, told officers he would rather go to prison and “get away from the noise”.

A pair of armed robbers quickly regretted their choice of target after their raid on a McDonald's branch in eastern France saw them come up against an 11-strong elite police team. The two robbers burst into the packed restaurant and immediately began firing warning shots to intimidate staff.

A parrot who keeps repeating "Don't f**king shoot!" could be called as a witness in the trial of his owner's killer. Martin Duram, 45, was shot five times in his Michigan, USA home last May and his death remains under investigation.

A tired and emotional parish priest screamed that he enjoyed diplomatic immunity on behalf of the Vatican while drunkenly brawling with police and a paramedic. Gareth Jones, 36, was convicted after the bizarre incident in central London.

A newly-discovered species of leaf-dwelling praying mantis has been named after US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Scientists at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History said the insect's neck plate closely resembles Justice Ginsburg's jabot.

A judge in Ohio has spared a Catholic man from jail, ordering him to attend Baptist church services for twelve weeks instead. Judge William Mallory handed out his divine sentence to Jake Strotman, 23, who admitted brawling with Baptist street preachers.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has stunned the US legal profession by attacking a sitting federal judge as "a hater of Donald Trump". In a bizarre tirade, Trump himself said: "Everybody says it, but I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He's a hater."

A scientist and an academic have proposed creating robot sex brothels to undermine demand for human sex trafficking. Futurology specialist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars have co-authored a paper proposing robot sex workers as a means of tackling human trafficking and STI transmission.

An Italian court has acquitted a man accused of falling behind in child support payments after he decided to pay in pizzas instead of euros. Nicola Toso, 50, divorced his wife in 2002 and later found it difficult to keep up with the monthly €400 stipulated in the divorce agreement.

A 77-year-old erotic novel writer who died during a solo sex act was described as passing "in flagrante delicto" by an English coroner. Terence Charles Wakelin, writer of titles like Love Slave, was discovered dead by a friend, surrounded with an assortment of "accoutrements" including electric nipp

A county councillor in Wales has warned locals to keep on the look-out for psychotic, cannabis-fuelled sheep. Ioan Richard has cautioned locals about the possibility of an "outbreak of psychotic sheep rampaging through the village" after suspected cannabis plants were discarded in the countryside ne

A controversial Russian academic has proposed giving the vote to Russia's war dead to allow their continued participation in politics. Alexander Ageyev, director of the influential Institute for Economic Strategies, suggested that the descendants of around 14 million Russians killed during World War

An American man who correctly guessed the password for an electronic message board is facing a felony charge after changing it to read "Drive Crazy Yall". Geoffrey Eltgroth, 26, was arrested after motorists noticed a message board warning of road construction had been altered.