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Filmmaker Danny Boyle has been banned by a church court from filming scenes for his zombie apocalypse threequel in an English church. The Consistory Court of the Diocese of Newcastle said the Morpeth Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin would be "profaned" by the filming, The Telegraph reports.

A burglar was caught in the middle of a robbery after stopping to read a book on Greek mythology. The 38-year-old man reportedly broke into a flat in the Prati district of Rome but became distracted after picking up a book about Homer's Iliad.

A martial artist who broke the jaw of a 'ghost' with a kick to the face in 2011 has lost a 13-year lawsuit against the amusement park where the incident took place. The unnamed Japanese karate expert's claim that the park was partly responsible has been dismissed by the Osaka High Court.

A man whose head was bleeding after a hair transplant was arrested after refusing to leave a plane. Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier and his female companion were removed from the aircraft at Miami airport, local media reports.

Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been dismissed by the morality police for failing to grow beards. The Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue fired the beardless men – who are among 13,000 people who have been detained for immoral acts

A fugitive accused of murder has been found – working as a police officer. Antonio Riano was wanted for the shooting of Benjamin Becarra, 25, in the US state of Ohio, in 2004.

A star American footballer has unexpectedly come to the defence of a woman jailed for stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings. Chris Jones, a player for the Kansas City Chiefs, has offered to pay for the wings in order to secure Vera Liddell's release from prison, USA Today reports.

An American judge has been widely criticised after humiliating a teenage girl who fell asleep during a classroom visit to his court. Judge Kenneth King, of the 36th District Court in Detroit, ordered the 16-year-old girl to change into a jail uniform and sit handcuffed in the dock as punishment, 7 N

A man suing Disney for the alleged wrongful death of his fiancée has been told suing breaches the terms of his Disney+ subscription. Disney's lawyers raised eyebrows internationally by telling a New York court that Jeffrey Piccolo had agreed to handle all disputes with the company through arb

The UK's top charity for older people has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds in compensation for age-related harassment. An employment tribunal found that Age UK broke the law in its treatment of a 59-year-old graphic designer after his job application was not considered due to a technical erro

A lobby group has said it will seek to have hunters recognised as an ethnic group in the UK in order to protect their "way of life". Hunting Kind says it has obtained an opinion from a senior English barrister which supports its case for "protected status" either as an "ethnic group" or as a group o

Young people should get free Netflix if they surrender illegal knives, the head of Germany's police union has suggested. Jochen Kopelke, federal chair of the Union for Police (GdP), called for a knife amnesty in the wake of a high-profile attack in Stuttgart.

A man suffered age discrimination when an older colleague broke wind on him, a tribunal has ruled. The older man, a manager at Birmingham City Council in his mid-50s, also made comments about his colleague being a "newcomer" and "only a trainee", The Times reports.

A child named after a Game of Thrones character was mistakenly refused a UK passport out of concern that her name was trademarked by Warner Brothers. Six-year-old Khaleesi was named for the title taken by Emilia Clarke's character Daenerys Targaryen in the fantasy TV show, which was still airin

A hurricane brought cocaine worth more than $1 million to land yesterday. Hurricane Debby reached Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, though was downgraded to a tropical storm as it made its way across the south-eastern US.