A man accused of arson has said he set his apartment building on fire while trying to cremate his pet cat. Five people were displaced after the fire allegedly caused by 53-year-old Vince Hildestad, who went missing for a week afterwards.
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New legislation aims to make it easier for Americans to finance tiny homes.
The UK's strict new internet age verification rules can be bypassed with images of characters' faces from hyper-realistic video games. Thousands of websites and online platforms now require users based in the UK to verify their age before accessing adult content, following the commencement of key pr
A man returning home from his allotment became the victim of police stupidity after he was arrested by armed police when a member of the public mistook his gardening tools for weapons. Manchester man Samuel Rowe, 35, is mulling legal action after accepting a caution from Greater Manchester Police fo
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte are suing U.S. political commentator Candace Owens for defamation, following repeated claims that the first lady is a man. Their lawyer, Tom Clare, told CNN the lawsuit filed in Delaware is a “last resort” after a year of failed atte
A woman who stopped to let a chicken cross the road has been accused of spraying a fellow driver with bear mace 🐻 after she sped by her and killed the bird. Cynthia Sosa, 38, stopped at an intersection in Key West, Florida, on July 9 to let the chicken cross when another driver honked and passed
A man who allegedly ran a fake embassy for a country that does not exist has been arrested. Harsh Vardhan Jain claimed to be the Indian ambassador for various non-existent countries, including "West Arctica, Saborga, Poulvia and Lodonia".
Dozens of peacocks and peahens have been reported stolen from the grounds of a luxury hotel. The birds have become an iconic feature of the Ryde Hotel in Walnut Grove, California since their introduction nearly 15 years ago.
A top New York law firm has reportedly sacked a summer intern who allegedly bit a number of colleagues. Sidley Austin was forced to drop the intern after a number of complaints, according to American legal blog Above The Law.
A TikToker is being sued by the manufacturer of the children's toys she uses to tell soap opera-style stories involving sex and drugs. More than 2.5 million people follow @sylvaniandrama on TikTok, where Thea Von Engelbrechten posts short stories illustrated with Sylvanian Families felt figurines.
A bumbling group of drug dealers who allegedly plotted to deliberately get arrested in order to benefit from bail conditions have been foiled. Singaporean police believe that the group of five Chinese nationals deliberately got caught offering bribes to officials in order to prolong their stay in th
Florida's attorney general has embraced a baseless conspiracy theory that deadly flooding in Texas was caused by deliberate "weather modification". James Uthmeier is the latest in a growing list of Republican officials alleging that "cloud seeding" and "chemtrails" are responsible for extreme weathe
A woman who allegedly seduced and then blackmailed Buddhist monks has been arrested by police in Thailand. "Ms Golf", as she has been dubbed by police, allegedly extracted 385 million baht (€10.2m or £8.8m) from at least nine victims over three years, the BBC reports.
A bomb threat which grounded a passenger plane was found to be a hoax orchestrated by a furious mother trying to stop her married son going on holiday with his mistress. The threat was taken seriously and led to the cancellation of the flight from Dhaka, Bangladesh to Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday,&n
As most of France celebrates the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, one Frenchman is returning to prison two days after a remarkable escape. The 20-year-old man, who has not been named, is believed to have escaped from the Corbas prison near Lyon by hiding in a laundry bag belonging to a c