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Celebrities A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have promised to name their next child after the lawyer who successfully defended the award-winning rapper on assault charges. A jury in Los Angeles this week found the rapper, legally named Rakim Mayers, not guilty of firing a semi-automatic weapon at a former fri

A local authority in the Philippines has placed a paid bounty on the heads of mosquitoes. One peso – around one euro cent or a penny – is on offer for every mosquito brought dead or alive to authorities in Barangay Addition Hills in central Manila.

Google has been fined by a Russian court for hosting YouTube videos which instruct Russian soldiers in Ukraine on how to surrender. The fine of 3.8 million rubles (around €40,000 or £33,000) was imposed by Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday, according to Russia's state-owned TASS

Mexico will sue Google if it continues to label the entire Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", the country's president has warned. One of Donald Trump's first acts on his return to the White House was to sign an executive order purporting to rename the body of water.

An alleged drug dealer was busted on Valentine's Day by Peru's most-loved rodent.

A woman accused by a shopkeeper of squeezing a bag of buns has been charged with criminal damage in Japan. The 40-year-old woman insisted that she had "only checked the firmness" of the buns by "pressing lightly with my hand", the BBC reports.

A judge has reversed the £32.5 million sale of a London mansion whose owner failed to disclose it was infested with moths. New owners and residents Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak said they began to encounter dozens of moths every day, including on their towels and toothbrushes and in t

Mafia bosses have been recorded telling new recruits to watch The Godfather out of despair with their unfamiliarity with their code of honour. Police in Sicily revealed the content of private conversations between alleged members of Cosa Nostra after apprehending nearly 150 suspects in dawn raids on

Nearly a quarter of a million Danes have backed a call for Denmark to purchase California from the US. The joke online petition is a response to Donald Trump's repeated – and rebuffed – demands to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

Ed Sheeran was forced to end an impromptu performance on the streets of Bangalore after being shut down by police for illegal busking. A member of the public complained to police after the singer, one of the world's best-selling musicians, started performing in the southern Indian city over the week

Cocaine is as harmless as whiskey and only illegal "because it is made in Latin America", the president of Colombia has said. Gustavo Petro, who presides over the world's largest producer of cocaine, claimed that scientists had analysed the drug and come to that conclusion, CBS News reports.

A judge who was excused from jury duty because he said he thinks all defendants are guilty has been forced to resign from the bench. Judge Richard T. Snyder, of Petersburgh Town Court in New York, was referred to the judicial watchdog after making the remarks.

A colony of beavers jumped the gun on a seven-year-long dispute by constructing a series of dams exactly where local authorities wanted to build them. Environmentalists had called for years for the construction of new dams in Czechia's Brdy mountains to reverse damage caused by the communist-era Cze

First Minister John Swinney has firmly ruled out a proposed ban on cats. The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission (SAWG) has suggested strict new measures on outdoor cats because of their "significant impact on wildlife populations", the BBC reports.

The cops really do love doughnuts: a police union has come under fire after calling a man a “snitch” for posting a video of officers doing doughnuts in the snow. The video, recorded by Hamon Brown, showed officers in Houston, Texas, engaging in reckless driving during a snowstorm, despit