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A couple is set to go to court in defence of a rooster who has racked up thousands in fines for crowing too loudly. Jackie and Drew Tanenbaum, from Maryland, have been fined $4,800 (around £4,000) over Wilbur the rooster's crowing following a neighbour's complaints, local TV channel WTKR News

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A construction worker struck gold after he won more than $1.5 million (£1.23m) in a local lottery game. The worker from Charles County in the US is now $1,540,418 (£1,258,690) richer after playing the Maryland Lottery’s Fast Play lottery.

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The November 26 incident, which took place on a flight from New York to New Delhi, has landed Shankar Mishra in hot water.

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Two skateboarding fanatics have transformed a church into a skate park after successfully raising thousands of pounds on a crowdfunding site.

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Princess Diana's famous dress is to go up for auction at Sotheby's for £100,000.

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The boss of Brewdog has been put nearly £500,000 out of pocket after remedying a misleading promotion in which 50 individuals won "solid gold" beer cans.

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A man has been arrested and charged with stealing over $300,000 (£253k) in a scheme that was inspired by the movie Office Space. According to the affidavit, Ernie Castro, from Seattle, began running a series of schemes starting in February, after working at the company Zulily for three ye

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The biggest farmers' association in Italy has condemned the use of mafia terms to sell food and drink around the world — including a machine gun-shaped bottle of whisky produced in Scotland. Coldiretti found that some 300 restaurants are mafia-themed, among them El Padrino in Spain, Don Corleo

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It seems that the shift towards a cashless society has brought about an unexpected but perhaps obvious benefit in Denmark, where bank robberies have fallen to zero. According to Finans Danmark, an industry association, the decline in physical currency usage has led many Danish banks to stop offering

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The case of two fans of actress Ana de Armas who are suing a film studio for removing her from the film Yesterday has reached the next stage. Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza accused Universal Studios of false representation and fraud at the beginning of this year after they paid $3.99 to rent t

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The creator of Fortnite, Epic Games, has been given two record-breaking fines totalling $520 million (£431.5m) by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Rapper 50 Cent has taken legal action against a plastic surgeon allegedly using his image to promote penis enhancement surgery. The lawsuit centres on a photo of the rapper with Angela Kogan, who runs Perfection Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Florida, the Miami Herald reports.

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Today the Bank of England unveiled the design of the King Charles III banknotes. The portrait of The King will appear on existing designs of all four polymer banknotes (£5, £10, £20 and £50), with no other changes to the existing designs.

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Two women have been given $100 (£82) fines and 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 eas

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An accounting software company which produced its own star-studded sitcom about accountants has announced the launch of its second season.

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