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A passenger plane was grounded for days after nearly 150 hamsters broke loose and began to roam the aircraft freely. The animals escaped from the cargo hold during a commercial flight from Lisbon, Portugal to Ponta Delgada in the Azores last week, CBS News reports.

Police have seized tarot cards and crystal balls after arresting a group of "psychics" alleged to be fraudsters. Three arrests have now been made in Sydney, Australia following an investigation into what is alleged to be a crime syndicate using their supposed psychic abilities for cover, ABC News re

Police in Thailand were forced to barricade themselves into their station as their town came under attack from around 200 escaped monkeys. Special enclosures in Lopburi – around 100 miles north-east of Bangkok – are used to manage the local monkey population.

A man was caught allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas onto a plane. The 28-year-old suspect, who has not been named, was arrested at an airport in Peru after security officials noticed an unusual bulge around his stomach.

Infowars, the far-right media outlet built by disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has been acquired by satirical news website The Onion. Jones – once close to Donald Trump – declared bankruptcy after he was ordered to pay $1.5 billion to families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook E

Ukraine has failed in a bid to register "Russian warship, go f*ck yourself" as an EU trademark. The infamous phrase was said by a Ukrainian border guard in response to a Russian demand for surrender in the early hours of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Argentina is to scrap a law requiring the president to become the godparent of any couple's seventh son or seventh daughter. The bizarre 1974 law made international headlines a decade ago when then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became godmother to a Jewish baby for the first time.

Police were called to a Le Creuset warehouse in England after hundreds of unruly bargain-hunters descended on a rare sale. The two-day sale at the luxury cookware brand's Andover, Hampshire warehouse proved unexpectedly popular, The Guardian reports.

An American court has overturned a long-standing rule that engagement rings in failed relationships should go to the party who was wronged. Until now, judges in Massachusetts had to decide who was at fault for the breakdown in a relationship and allow them to keep the ring, The Boston Globe reports.

Prosecutors who brought down the hammer on late taxpayers have complained that their own pay is now extremely late. The local prosecutor's office in St Louis County, Missouri has been owed around $54,000 (around €50,000 or £42,000) for months.

Jesus was not opposed to the death penalty, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has claimed. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow told veterans of Russia's illegal war on Ukraine that Christ had "suffered an undeserved execution" but never condemned executions altogether, Novaya Gazeta reports.

An American cyclist is taking legal action after being struck and injured by an ambulance, which took him to hospital and then sent him a bill for nearly $2,000. William Hoesch, 71, is seeking $997,000 (around €930,000 or £775,000) from Columbia River Fire & Rescue in Oregon in compen

An octogenarian who was attacked with a machete after knocking on the wrong door by mistake managed to fend off his attacker with a pair of nunchucks. The would-be victim told police that he knocked on the door in Youngstown, Ohio and heard an irate man shout that he had the wrong apartment.

An untrained law student enjoyed the rare opportunity to conduct a 60-person orchestra following a social media appeal. Ella Eroniemi, 22, responded to a post from Finnish national broadcaster Yle seeking a member of the public with no experience of conducting to try conducting the Radio Symphony Or

Chinese government officials are reportedly cold-calling women to urge them to get pregnant. The bizarre scheme forms part of the Chinese government's efforts to reverse a decline in the country's birth rate, the South China Morning Post reports.