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Student Josh Mayer was so annoyed when his school told him he could no longer wear his Tesco trousers to lessons that he returned the next day wearing a skirt. The Year 10 pupil claims he was taken out of class at Swavesey Village College following the rule change. The …

Chechen men are considered some of the most masculine in the world, and this is an image that authorities are keen to maintain, so anything that threatens to damage that hard-earned image of fearlessness is frowned upon. A young man recently learned that first-hand, after crying at his sister’s wedding. …

Three Spanish police officers who were thrown into the sea when their boat crashed early Friday during a high-speed chase were pulled to safety by the drug-smugglers they were chasing, police said. The unexpected rescue happened after a police vessel began pursuing a speedboat “with four people on board that …

A Russian iPhone user recently filed a one million ruble lawsuit against Apple, accusing the American corporation of indirectly turning him gay. In a court filing that went viral on Russia’s internet, the plaintiff alleges that he became “mired in a same-sex relationship” after receiving the wrong kind of cryptocurrency …

Determined to get her money’s worth out of the wedding dressed she spent over $1,000, an Australian woman has been wearing her wedding dress everywhere, a year after her wedding. 43-year-old Tammy Hall adopted an anti-consumerism lifestyle in 2016, after a trip to India opened her eyes to how much …

Classy fashion should not be associated with embarrassments such as having smelly fart pass through it. Tha is probably the thinking of a clothing company in the UK now selling the next big thing in jeans. The company called “Shreddies” claims its flatulence jeans will stop your farts from smelling. …

A ‘jealous’ husband killed himself and his two children when he jumped from a ninth floor balcony moments after his wife filed for divorce. Roman Mikhailov, 30, died at the scene with the couple’s 18 month old son Artyom. Their daughter Sofiya, four, died later at hospital. Before the tragedy …

On a two-acre fieldin England’s Midlands, Gavin and Alice Munro are taking sustainability to the next level: they harvest trees which they train to grow into chairs. The couple have a furniture farm in Derbyshire where they are nurturing 250 chairs, 100 lamps and 50 tables. It is their answer …

A young Ukrainian man has managed to successfully avoid compulsory military service by staying married to a woman 57 years his senior for almost two years. Despite widespread criticism online, the man has the law on his side. In late 2017, Alexander Kondratyuk, a young man from the Ukrainian city …

Burglars have stolen a fully-functional 18-carat gold toilet from Britain’s Blenheim Palace, where it had been installed as an art exhibit, police said on Saturday. The toilet, valued at more than $5 million, was part of an exhibition of work by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan which opened two days …