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A woman who allegedly stalked Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle for eight months last year has been ordered to stay away from him for three years. Rebecca Gamble, 48, is alleged to have tormented Mr Boyle by appearing at his gigs at The Stand comedy club in Glasgow and the Sheraton Hotel in Edinburgh

Two police officers have been suspended after tossing a coin to decide whether or not to arrest a suspected speeding motorist. The officers, based in Roswell, Georgia, USA, were placed on administrative leave after bodycam footage of the incident was obtained by investigative reporters and broadcast

A woman who won nearly £700,000 from the lottery has announced her first action will be to sue her nephew for his half of the jackpot. Barbara Reddick said she put nephew Tyrone MacInnis on the ticket for luck but had only promised to share the winnings from a smaller draw.

A Spanish civil servant who was paid €50,000 a year for a job he failed to go to for more than a decade has been given a nine-year work ban. Carles Recio, former head of Valencia’s Proceedings Archive, would clock in at his office at 7:30am every day, before leaving.

Three suspected poachers were eaten by lions after their plan to break into a game reserve and hunt rhino apparently went awry. The armed men broke into the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa but encountered its pride of lions and were found in pieces.

A town in Lebanon has introduced a new T-shirt and shorts uniform for women police officers in a bid to attract more tourists. Pierre Achkar, the mayor of Brummana, said the revealing new outfit would help to "change the bleak picture of Lebanon in the west".

Animal rescue workers have raised concerns over an unexplained sharp spike in reports of drunk seagulls. Staff at the RSPCA in Britain said they've received over a dozen calls in recent weeks about gulls so drunk they've nearly passed out.

A self-styled healer has been shot dead by a sceptical client who wanted to test out his magic "bullet-repelling" charms. According to reports, the healer encouraged his buyer to shoot at him while wearing the alleged protective charms around his neck.

In a rare case of hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, councillors in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, have voted to adjust the price of cremation by £1 to avoid a rate of £666 which might startle the superstitious. The figure resulted from the authority's 2018-19 budget plan, prompting councillors to agree t

A man filed for divorce because his wife thought Cristiano Ronaldo was a better footballer than Lionel Messi. After celebrating Argentina's victory over Nigeria on June 26, husband Arsen left his wife of 14 years, Lyudmila, as she remained adamant that the Portugal star was the better player.

A couple allegedly high on bath salts who fired gunshots at fireflies because they thought they were alien lasers were arrested after seeking refuge and a shower in someone's house. Police said that Jesse Shields fired his handgun at the 'lasers' before he and Katherine McCloskey ran to a nearby hom

An exam board has been slapped with a record £175,000 fine after confusing the Montagues and the Capulets in an English exam paper. Almost 15,000 school pupils were asked to answer a question about "Tybalt's hatred of the Capulets" in Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet, even though the characte

A man was injured after a hidden camera in his shoe used to take photos up women's skirts exploded. The 32-year-old was using the device at home when it blew up, prompting him to hand himself in at the local police station.

A boy trying to make some pocket money by mowing lawns has received a string of new clients after one home called the police on him – for straying onto a strip of their grass. Reggie Fields, 12, whose siblings and cousins work for him, inadvertently encroached onto an adjacent garden when mowing L

A man with a tattoo of a gun on his forehead has been arrested and charged with illegal possession of a firearm. Michael Vines allegedly threw a fully-loaded .38-caliber revolver into the grass after being involved in a car accident.