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Three drunken tourists who trespassed into a bear enclosure in Alaska have been jailed. The men were sentenced last week for the incident in 2018 which saw them wade into the Brooks River at the Katmai National Park and interrupt the salmon-loving bears' dinner.

A global firm managing $640 billion in assets has distanced itself from its head of responsible investing after he appeared to shrug off the impact of climate change. Stuart Kirk, global head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management, told a Financial Times event: "Who cares if Miami is six

Vogue magazine has apologised to a Cornish pub after requesting the centuries-old establishment to change its name. The Star Inn at Vogue refused to change its name after receiving the original request from the magazine in March, highlighting that the pub was named after the hamlet in which it is lo

A coffee shop in Florence has been fined €1,000 (£847) after a customer got angry over the price of an espresso. The customer called the police after being charged €2 (£1.70) for his coffee (a decaffeinated one) at Ditta Artigianale in the centre of the city.

A notorious cat dubbed the "most prosecuted" in her local area has been vindicated in court after years of litigation.

A couple in India are suing their son for failing to produce grandchildren after six years of marriage. Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad, 61 and 57, say they expended their savings on their son – paying for his training as a pilot and a lavish wedding – yet he has not given them a grandchild.

Andy Warhol’s world-famous portrait of the Queen will be sold to the public as part of the Monarch’s upcoming Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The ‘Elizabeth II’ screenprint (1985) has been acquired by Showpiece.com and will enter into fractional ownership — a scheme whic

A baseball signed by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has sold at auction for more than $50,000.

A Canadian MP has apologised after making a remote appearance – from a toilet. Other MPs quickly recognised the distinctive background of the parliament building's bathroom as Shafqat Ali, a Liberal MP in Toronto, joined the parliamentary session from his phone.

Police are on the hunt for a green-fingered burglar who mowed his victim's front and back gardens before fleeing. The suspect, named as Marcus Renard Hubbard, was caught on CCTV taking a lawnmower from a home, filling it up with petrol and then mowing the lawn, police say.

Andy Warhol’s famous Shot Sage Blue Marilyn painting has been sold at an auction for $195m (£158m). The sale has made it the most expensive work by an American artist sold at auction.

Auction house Christie's is set to auction a Deinonychus dinosaur skeleton in New York this week. The Deinonychus antirrhopus skeleton is estimated to sell for between $4 million and $6 million, Artnet News reports.

Satanists have demanded that their flag be raised over Boston city headquarters following a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The court this week ruled that the city violated the rights of a Christian group after snubbing its formal request for their flag to be flown outside

A police department has said it is "embarrassed" after a volunteer officer was caught using police vehicles to sell drugs. Sheriff Grady Judd, head of the police department in Polk County, Florida, said the incident "makes me so crazy I want to pluck my eyeballs out one at a time", FOX 13 reports.

Canadians will no longer be allowed to commit crimes on the surface of the moon under a legislative change slipped into the country's latest budget bill. The move comes in anticipation of Canada's involvement in the Lunar Gateway project to create the first-ever space station in lunar orbit.