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It took seven police officers in Ukraine to restrain a former Olympic wrestler as he resisted arrest for drink driving. Vyacheslav Oliynyk, 50, who won gold for the country in 1986, was undeterred by pepper spray and batons as he dispatched the officers in Kiev.

A driver in Zhejiang province, China has tried and failed to evade a parking ticket by claiming to be a member of an alien royal family. A viral video shows the young driver, name unknown, confront traffic officers while claiming to be an important extra-terrestial.

A French worker is taking his ex-employer to an employment tribunal because his job was so boring that it resembled a "descent into hell". Frédéric Desnard, 44, is seeking €360,000 in compensation and damages - around £284,000 - as well as allegedly overdue holiday pay.

A language group has intervened in a copyright infringement case to appeal for Klingon to be recognised as a living language. The Language Creation Society, which supports and encourages the creation of artificial languages, has filed an amicus brief in a copyright case in the U.S. District Court fo

The controversial frontrunner in the Philippine presidential elections has vowed to pardon himself for murder if elected. Rodrigo Duterte, 71, has a comfortable lead over the other candidates in the south-east Asian country's looming election in May.

Police in London are on the hunt for a driver who splashed an old lady by repeatedly driving through a puddle. The driver of a Toyota 4x4 was filmed during the second drive-by splashing near the Kentish Town tube station in Camden.

A Texas lawyer has threatened to sue a restaurant if it doesn't refund him $2.25 for a cup of soup that never arrived. Dwain Downing wrote to Benji Arslanovski, operator of Our Place Restaurant in Masnfield, complaining that he did not receive a discount on a Sunday special when the accompanying sou

Police despatched to deal with a suspected domestic disturbance were caught off guard when they discovered the verbal altercation was between a man and his parrot. Ontario cops were called to a home after neighbours reported hearing verbal outbursts from the home of a neighbouring couple.

Police in Northamptonshire have been ridiculed after publishing an e-fit of a man members of the public said looked "like he swallowed a plate".

Chinese civil servants have been baffled by colourful propaganda comics urging them to beware of handsome foreigners. A 16-panel comic strip displayed in posters across Beijing follows a young female civil servant, Xiao Li, who is tricked into handing secret files to a red-haired foreigner, David. T

A statue of Heracles in a small French town has been endowed with a removable prosthetic penis in a bid to prevent vandalism. It will feature on the 10-foot statue during special ceremonies.

An American attorney has tested the patience of a federal judge after allegedly lying about his mother's death and an extended hospital stay in order to have court proceedings repeatedly delayed. Attorney John Nonnenmacher sent a colleague to tell Judge Allyne Ross that his mother had died suddenly,

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has conducted a legally recognised wedding on a pirate boat off the coast of New Zealand. Toby Ricketts and Marianna Fenn have become the first couple to be married in a "Pastafarian" ceremony, which demands full pirate regalia.

A man in Belfast is being treated for head injuries after the brick he allegedly hurled at a charity office window bounced back and hit him. The man, in his 40s and currently unnamed, was detained by police outside the Public Initiative for Prevention of Suicide (PIPS) charity office in north Belfas

A 27-year-old man who changed his name to Buzz Lightyear to raise money for charity has won a year-long struggle to have a UK driving license issued in his acquired name. According to Mr Lightyear, his application was initially refused on the basis that it could cause reputational damage to the DVLA