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A woman has successfully obtained a court order to evict her two adult sons, who declined to move out while refusing to pay rent or perform chores. The 75-year-old woman from the northern Italian city of Pavia was forced to go to court to resolve the situation with her two sons, aged 40 and 42, The

A company which tried to pay a roughly £20,000 settlement in coins weighing nearly three tonnes has been rebuked by a judge. The Colorado-based company delivered a custom-made metal box containing coins worth $23,500 (around £20,000) to the offices of a law firm representing a subcontrac

Humans have as much a right as wild animals to urinate in the sea, a German judge has ruled. In an unusually poetic judgment, a district judge in the northern German city of Lübeck overturned a €60 fine imposed on a man who relieved himself on the beach late at night during a sailing festi

A London winery is facing legal action from one of France's best-known champagne houses over its use of the name "Crystal". Renegade Urban Winery sells Crystal – named for customer Crystal Lai, who is also pictured on the bottle – on its website for £27 a pop.

Authorities have been urged to crack down on so-called "siren kings" who fit out their cars with dozens of gigantic speakers and compete to see who can play music the loudest. Residents of Porirua, New Zealand have petitioned their local government to intervene and stop the "siren battles" taking pl

Residents of Russian villages with embarrassing names that mean the likes of slut, boozy and farty are to be granted a reprieve. New legislation proposed in Russia's State Duma would allow local authorities to unilaterally change the names of settlements that are "degrading to the dignity of residen

A court worker has been arrested after trying to approach Donald Trump in a show of support during his civil fraud trial in New York. The woman, who has not been named, has been suspended from her job as well as being charged with contempt of court and disrupting a court proceeding, CNN reports.

A '90s rap star convicted of illegally funnelling foreign money to Barack Obama's election campaign and acting as a Chinese agent is facing a retrial on the basis his defence lawyer allegedly relied on AI to write his closing statement. Pras, best known as one of the Fugees, was found guilty last ye

Police are looking for thieves who stole 35 portable toilets from a racetrack. The cubicles, some of which had not been emptied, were taken from Ludlow Autograss Club in Pencombe, Herefordshire on Sunday.

A fake lawyer who is said to have secured victory in over two dozen cases despite having no legal qualifications has attracted a fan following. The fraudster allegedly stole the identity of Kenyan lawyer Brian Mwenda and appeared in 26 cases before Kenya's Court of Appeal, High Court and magistrates

France is to fine shops that leave their lights on too long as it cracks down on energy waste. Agnès Pannier-runacher, the energy transition minister, said that firms that break rules on when they can have their lights on will face fines of €1,500 (£1,294).

Suspected fraudsters who are alleged to have bought 20 bottles of fine French wine with €95,000 (around £82,000) in fake banknotes have been arrested – but the bottles are believed to be lost. The two men and a woman are accused of swindling a Parisian wine merchant out of 18 bottle

A judge who allegedly sent hundreds of text messages mocking lawyers, jurors and witnesses while overseeing a child murder trial is to be removed from the bench. Judge Traci Soderstrom, in Oklahoma, speculated about the size of prosecutors' penises and fawned over a police officer in messages exchan

A social media influencer has been fined after stopping traffic to perform yoga in the middle of the street. Footage published by police in India's Gujarat state shows cars stopping while the woman, named as Dina Parmar, strikes various poses in pouring rain.

An African mask sold for €4.2 million is now at the centre of competing legal claims over its rightful ownership. The retired couple who sold the mask to an antiques dealer for €150 is now suing in the southern French town of Alès, alleging that the dealer knew of the items val