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Stretched Jacob Rees-Mogg slammed by fellow UK MPs
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French ducks in the dock for quacking
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Americans go cuckoo for chicken sandwich
US restaurant chain Popeyes launched a fried chicken sandwich that became so popular the company has run out of stock - leaving would-be consumers crying fowl. On August 12, Popeyes - best known for its Cajun-spiced fried chicken - unveiled its latest...
No-fly boys: new Russian space suit clashes with pee ritual
Russia on Thursday unveiled a new spacesuit for a future spaceship, but the design may have to be changed to continue a decades-old tradition: making a stop to pee on the way to the launch. The Sokol-M prototype suit was demonstrated at an airshow...
Russian sailor's message in bottle found 50 years later in Alaska
A man gathering firewood in Alaska discovered a bottle with a handwritten message inside wishing the finder "happy sailing" more than 50 years after it was dropped into the sea by a Russian sailor. "Sincere greetings! From the Russian Far East Fleet...
Man held for 82 days for bringing honey into US
A Jamaican national was detained for nearly three months in the United States after bringing in bottles of honey from the Caribbean island that customs agents mistakenly believed to be liquid methamphetamine. Leon Haughton had visited family back in...
Austrian police hunt for cowbell thieves
Austrian police said Monday they are hunting for thieves who stole over a dozen bells from cows grazing in the west of the country. "Of course people may wonder why someone would steal a cowbell," Bernhard Gruber, a police spokesman from the Tyrol...
182 pigs killed en route to French slaughterhouse
More than 180 pigs were killed when a truck that was transporting them to the slaughterhouse overturned at the weekend in northeastern France, rescuers said Monday. "A heavy goods vehicle (HGV) which was transporting 205 pigs overturned" at a...
Women to get gender-neutral rugby World Cup from 2021
The Women's Rugby World Cup in 2017 will be the last to bear that title with World Rugby announcing on Wednesday they are adopting a policy of gender neutrality for their tournaments. In what they say is "a first for a major sporting federation" the...
Trump trips up in tweet about Macron lunch
Did Donald Trump really have lunch with someone impersonating France's President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday? No - but the US president did accidentally tweet that he had. "Just had lunch with French President @EmanuelMacrone. Many good things are...
'Sorry!' Johnson puts foot in it at Macron's palace
An invitation to the gilded Elysee palace of France's president in Paris usually prompts a sense of decorum and formality in a visitor of any rank. But not Britain's charismatic - and sometimes controversial - new Prime Minister Boris Johnson. During...
Gentleman jailbreak: convicts return to Indonesia prison
More than 270 inmates - including convicted murderers - who bolted from a prison torched during violent riots in Indonesia's Papua region have returned to finish their sentences, a corrections official said Friday. The convicts are even helping build a...
Albania bulldozes restaurant after owner attacks tourists
Albanian officials on Wednesday razed a beachfront restaurant whose owner was captured on camera attacking a car rented by Spanish tourists, as the country scrambles to clean up its reputation as a burgeoning holiday destination. The incident, filmed...
'Otterly adorable'?: Demand for cute selfies puts animals at risk
Social media users are fuelling a burgeoning appetite for acquiring wild otters and other endangered animals as pets, conservationists say, warning the trend could push species towards extinction. Popular Instagrammers posting selfies with their pet...
Siberian postwoman on DIY monster truck gives lifeline to tiny village
Only five other people live in Galina Yermolova's tiny Siberian village Pikhtovoye, isolated from the world by the dense taiga - swampy coniferous forest - and a swamp. One of the other people is her husband. Every week, she travels 16 kilometres...
Dutch plan big Brexit beach party
Thousands of people have signed up on Facebook to a Dutch beach party for Brexit, featuring food from across the European Union to mark Britain's departure. Created by media worker Ron Toekook, the event calls for partygoers to meet at the seaside...
Modern cave man offers 'Neanderthal' survival courses in Italy
Guido Camia can show you how to light fires using just a flintstone, survive on a diet of insects and build a forest shelter. The 37-year-old, who originally trained to be a patisserie chef, now makes a living offering "Neanderthal" survival courses...