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A cannabis plant and a number of horses are among items stolen from police care in the West Midlands, the BBC has reported. Police forces listed items lost between 2011-16 after the BBC submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

Employees at a company in eastern China have been handed fines for not commenting on their boss’s social media posts, the Beijing Youth Daily reports. At a travel agency in Jinan, over 200 workers were fined 50 yuan (£5.70) each for failing to comment on CEO Zhang Ming’s Weibo posts – an arra

A bizarre instance of road rage between two middle-aged German men led to one denting the other's BMW with his foot-long sausage. News of the incident - in which police say a massive pork product was allegedly hurled at the vehicle - emerged in Die Welt.

Thieves who nicked a box of chemicals from the back of a pick-up truck will be disappointed once they open what they probably thought were drug-making materials, the New Zealand Herald reports. The stolen materials, far from being fit to produce illegal drugs, are actually oils made from the anal gl

A judge has castigated a vexatious litigant for describing his occupation as “a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ”. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said the courts were right to refuse to accept a sworn statement with the “fanciful” occupation listed.

A judge has banned a man from ordering pizza as part of his bail conditions. Randy Riddle, 49, is charged with four counts of harassing phone calls, two counts of first-degree petty theft and one count of second-degree petty theft.

A Crown Court judge hit back at a foul-mouthed neo-Nazi's verbal abuse by throwing back some of her own. John Hennigan, 50, as he was being sentenced for breach of an Asbo, told Judge Patricia Lynch that she was a "bit of a c**t".

A man was forced to postpone the sale of his home after he realised he had been living next door to the flat he owns.

A man was left baffled after police told him he failed his disclosure check because he was executed a decade ago.

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.