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A French burglar intentionally left traces of DNA all over the crime scene just so he would end up in prison and watch encrypted TV channel Canal+ for free. A monthly subscription to French premium television channel Canal+ costs around 10 euros ($11), but inmates in French prisons can apparently …

An ice hockey goalkeeper in Russia, Saveli Kononov, has received a brand new AK-47 rifle as prize for emerging man of the match in his team’s victory over Chelmet in the second-tier VHL. The Izhstal Izhevsk goalkeeper stopped 36 of the 38 shots he faced during the match and photos …

Viewers of an exhibition match between two major football clubs last Sunday were outraged to see what looked like a child puffing away on a cigarette in the stands. However, the smoker turned out to be a lot older than he appeared. During a televised exhibition match between Bursaspor and …

A landlord was left shocked and even vomited when he discovered rubbish piled high alongside rotten food and even human waste a mother-of-four left behind before moving out from his property. Landlord Shahin Miah who owns the property located in Erdington, Birmingham, claimed his former tenant who had been living in the house for five years with …

A woman who pretended to have terminal cancer so that she could con a small charity into paying for a wedding ceremony has been spared jail. Carla Evans, 29, claimed she had bladder cancer, thyroid cancer and liver and kidney failure to defraud the charity Wish Upon a Wedding which …

A seaside town is planning to install public toilets that will stop sexual activity by spraying amorous occupants with water and sounding an alarm. The new loos in the Welsh town of Porthcawl are also designed to prevent anti-social behaviour such as vandalism and drug taking. The toilets will have …

After becoming the first mother in Britain to give birth to 10 boys in a row, Alexis Brett had almost resigned herself to living in an all-male household. But she was “shocked and delighted” when she gave birth to her 11th child – a girl. On August 27, the delighted …

BRNO (Reuters) – When a helicopter rushed an unconscious Czech woman who had suffered a severe stroke to hospital in April, her chances of survival were slim – and those of the fetus she had carried in her womb for 15 weeks little better. And yet, on Aug. 15, against …

Doctors in the UK recently reported the shocking case of a teenager whose vision has deteriorated to the point of blindness due to a poor diet based mainly on French fries, potato chips, processed meat and white bread. The Bristol-based teenager, who preferred to remain anonymous, had reportedly been eating …

Sela pri Kamniku (Slovenia) (AFP) – Amid the idyllic calm of a sleepy corner of northern Slovenia, the unlikeliest of disturbances intrudes — an irate villager on a tractor ploughing into a huge effigy of US President Donald Trump. The scene, witnessed by AFP, unfolded this week in the village …