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Customs authorities at one of Europe's busiest ports have hailed a "white Christmas" after seizing nearly nine tonnes of cocaine. Officials in Antwerp seized 3.9 tonnes of cocaine last Monday and a further 4.8 tonnes last Wednesday, Belgian broadcaster VRT reports.

Two women have been given suspended prison sentences after feeding stray cats near a courthouse in order to trap and neuter them. Animal rights organisations protested after Beverly Roberts, 85, and Mary Alston, 61, were arrested near the courthouse in Elmore County in eastern Alabama, the Montgomer

A person dressed as a Christmas tree who slashed car tires at a meat warehouse is being sought by police.

A police officer has been suspended on suspicion of producing and distributing pornography while on duty. Christian Goggans, a 30-year-old officer in the US state of Arizona, is accused of being pornstar "Rico Blaze" with over 27,000 online followers, Arizona's Family reports.

A senior law firm partner was left embarrassed after circulating a memo about climate change with reference to the non-existent "Valerian Sea". In a newsletter sent round a City of London firm, the lawyer said he had a "eureka moment" when he was "leaving a Scandinavian port on the Valerian Sea in t

A Russian blogger who shared a bizarre dream involving Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been fined 30,000 rubles (£386). Ivan Losev, a 26-year-old in Siberia, wrote on Instagram about a dream where he was conscripted and then captured with his comrades by Ukrainian forces led by Zel

A pair of identical twins accused of cheating in a university exam have won a €1.5 million defamation payout after arguing their genetic similarity played a decisive role in their similar answers. Kayla and Kellie Bingham were accused of "academic dishonesty" in 2016 following an eight-hour exa

People in South Korea are set to become a year younger under new legislation scrapping the century-old "Korean age" counting system. Under the Korean age system, a person turns one on the day they are born and grows a year older on the first day of the new year.

A one-year-old puppy managed to make multiple online purchases in the video game Watch Dogs with its owner’s credit card.

A police chief who flashed her badge after being stopped for riding a golf cart on the street has been forced to resign. Mary O'Connor, head of the police force in Tampa, Florida's third-largest city, was the passenger in a golf cart that was pulled over last month for driving on a road without a li

A disgruntled cheese-lover has launched a class action lawsuit against a "mozzarella stick" manufacturer whose products are allegedly made of cheddar. The allegedly misleading products were produced for the TGI Fridays chain of restaurants in the United States, USA Today reports.

A dimwit has been arrested after attempting to shoplift during a "Shop with a Cop" event with dozens of police officers in attendance. Nearly 40 officers were taking part in the charity event where police officers buy gifts for children from marginalised backgrounds.

A mac and cheese manufacturer is being sued for $5 million over claims its "ready in three-and-a-half minutes" label is slightly inaccurate. A new lawsuit alleges that the time advertised on Velveeta's microwaveable mac and cheese doesn't account for the time needed to open the packaging or stir the

South Africa's president has claimed that he hid at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in his sofa because it seemed "the safest place" to store it. The enormous sum of foreign currency was later stolen, and President Cyril Ramaphosa now faces impeachment over the murky circumstances of the thef

A student has been left stunned after receiving two boxes of Weetabix instead of the MacBook he ordered from Amazon.