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A stowaway has managed to fly from New York to Paris without a boarding pass. The woman, a Russian passport holder somewhere between 55 and 60 years ...

The Pope's surgeon has been charged with fraud in connection with allegedly fake records of operations he never performed. Sergio Alfieri, who successfully operated on Pope Francis ...

It is no longer a crime to cheat on your spouse in New York. The state has repealed an adultery law dating back to 1907, which said ...

A two-kilogram garden gnome made entirely out of MDMA has been seized by police in the Netherlands. The fairy creature, with a suitably mischievous countenance, was discovered ...

A man has been convicted of a criminal offence after deliberately gaining weight to avoid compulsory military service. The 26-year-old was sentenced last week by a court ...

Pop singer Katy Perry has won a 15-year-long trade mark dispute with a fashion designer called Katie Perry. The American pop star – whose real name is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...