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An English pub which was told selling pints for 25p would be illegal decided to give them away for free instead. Whitelocks, in Leeds, had intended to offer pints of a popular 1970s beer, which had been recently relaunched, at 1970s prices.

A camel beauty contest in Oman has become the latest to be rocked by a plastic surgery scandal. Organisers of the 2026 Camel Beauty Show Festival in Al Musannah in February say they disqualified a total of 20 camels who received cosmetic enhancements including lip fillers and Botox injections.

Businesses will be expressly banned from microchipping their employees under legislation proposed in a US state. Legislators in the state of Washington are currently considering House Bill 2303, which provides that an employer "may not request, require, or coerce any employee to have a microchip imp

In recognition of International Women’s Day on 8 March, the President of Turkmenistan has authorised a one-time holiday payment of 60 manats for women across the nation. This annual tradition, now in its seventh consecutive year, applies to a broad demographic including employees of all enterp

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has been charged with drugs offences after telling a podcast he once took ecstasy decades ago. The controversial left-wing politician and leader of the MeRA25 party said he had tried ecstasy in Australia in 1989 but was discouraged from doing so again a

Business owners in Jersey have spoken out against a proposed law that would require them to accept cash payments. A report by BBC News has challenged the common misconception that cash transactions are better for small businesses.

Mexicans are hoarding bank notes which depict the country's beloved axolotl, research has found. According to a report from the Bank of Mexico, around 11.2 million people told a survey that they're holding onto 50 peso notes instead of spending them.

A legal battle has erupted in Arizona over a $12.8 million (c. £9.5m) lottery ticket that sat unclaimed behind a convenience store counter before being purchased by the store manager after the draw. Circle K has filed a declaratory judgment complaint in Maricopa County Superior Court to determ

A man who admitted smuggling drugs into Mexico has been given the benefit of the doubt after saying he didn't mean to bring them back to Canada. Daniel Jacob Cluett was charged with three counts of importing substances into Canada after border officials found cocaine and MDMA in his luggage.

When 29-year-old business owner Sophie Downing visited a 200 Degrees coffee shop in Nottingham, she expected a simple matcha latte and a routine deduction from her £10 gift card. Instead, she walked away with a receipt claiming her remaining balance was a staggering £63 quadrillion. The

Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a fine imposed on search giant Google which is roughly a million times more than the combined GDP of the entire world. Judge Sergei Samuylov said there were no grounds to review the imposition of the 91.5 quintillion rouble fine (around €1.2 quintillion or &pou

A truck that was deployed to repair a sinkhole in New Jersey this week fell victim to another sinkhole, which swallowed up the entire vehicle. The massive sinkhole opened up in Phillipsburg on Tuesday. The truck fell into it when it was in the neighbourhood to help repair another sinkhole that opene

A former HSBC executive has been narrowly spared jail after orchestrating a systematic rail fare fraud that saved him nearly £6,000.

A rare Pokémon card made history this Monday in New Jersey, fetching a staggering $16,492,000 (c. 12,150,000) at auction and shattering the record for the most expensive trading card ever sold publicly. Consigned by American influencer Logan Paul via Goldin Auctions, the legendary "Poké

A local authority is recruiting a team of professional sniffers to help identify businesses producing bad smells. Brendola, a small town of around 4,000 people in northern Italy, is putting together a team of six "odour evaluators" following complaints from local residents about bad smells, The Guar