And Finally

A bank robbery went unexpectedly awry when the alleged robbers' getaway vehicle was stolen in the middle of their heist.

In reflecting on the last year, the kanji for "tax" has been chosen as the Japan's word of the year.

A century old Christmas tree is set to go up for auction.

A fake road toll plaza collected money from motorists for over a year-and-a-half before being discovered by authorities.

The winner of the Netflix reality show Squid Game: The Challenge has said that she has not received the $4.56 million (around £3.63m) prize she was promised.

The appearance of graffiti has sped up the repair and reopening of an Edinburgh road, it would seem.

A construction team in Ohio has moved an apartment building from one part of a town to another. The apartment building in Findlay was previously on Grand Avenue near the YMCA, and it was moved to West McPherson Avenue to serve as the bones for a new apartment project.

A woman who admitted to assaulting a fast food worker has been sentenced to two months' work in a fast food restaurant. Rosemary Hayne, 39, threw a burrito bowl in the face of the manager of a Chipotle restaurant in Ohio in an assault which was captured on video and went viral on social media.

Catholic nuns who own shares in gun maker Smith & Wesson are suing the company over its manufacturing of "mass-killing assault weapons". New York law firm Newman Ferrara LLP is representing the coalition of four congregations of Catholic sisters who have filed the stockholder derivative lawsuit

Hundreds of thousands of litres of counterfeit olive oil have been seized as part of a wide-ranging criminal investigation into an international olive oil racket. Spanish and Italian police, working with Europol, arrested 11 people in closely co-ordinated raids targeting a gang believed to be produc

UEFA has launched an investigation after "sex noises" disrupted the draw of groups for the Euro 2024 championship and were broadcast internationally. "Unexplained moaning noises" could be heard as members of Group A – of Germany, Scotland, Hungary and Switzerland – were drawn in Hamburg,

A senior Paraguayan government official has lost his job after signing an agreement with a fake country led by a suspected sex offender. Arnaldo Chamorro, chief of staff in Paraguay's agriculture ministry, told reporters that he had signed an agreement with representatives of the "United States of K

A notorious drug trafficker has handed his artificial island in Dubai to the Italian authorities in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence. Raffaele Imperiale, 49, told a court in Naples that he paid €12 million for 'Taiwan', which forms part of the artificial archipelago called "The World", con

A new board game aimed at raising awareness about common financial scams will soon be available to play in RBS branches in Glasgow and Livingston.

A Virgin Atlantic flight powered by cooking oil is set to make its inaugural journey today.