And Finally

A pair of identical twins accused of cheating in a university exam have won a €1.5 million defamation payout after arguing their genetic similarity played a decisive role in their similar answers. Kayla and Kellie Bingham were accused of "academic dishonesty" in 2016 following an eight-hour exa

A family of four were charged more than £80,000 in error after EDF sent a £1 million electricity bill. Richard Baron from Kent thought the bill was "quite amusing" at first until the energy provider proceeded with the first direct debit payment, leaving the family more than £7

A one-year-old puppy has managed to make multiple online purchases in the video game Watch Dogs with its owner’s credit card.

A worker who was unfairly dismissed for refusing to join his colleagues in the pub after work has won a case against his erstwhile employer. Mr T, not to be confused with he of A-Team fame, was a senior advisor at a firm in Paris.

A trove of Celtic gold coins with an estimated worth of €1.6m (£1.4m) have been stolen from a museum in Germany. The thieves stole the coins numbering in the hundreds from the museum in Manching, Bavaria, during a nine-minute nighttime heist.

A mac and cheese manufacturer is being sued for $5 million over claims its "ready in three-and-a-half minutes" label is slightly inaccurate. A new lawsuit alleges that the time advertised on Velveeta's microwaveable mac and cheese doesn't account for the time needed to open the packaging or stir the

South Africa's president has claimed that he hid at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in his sofa because it seemed "the safest place" to store it.

A 19th-century jail in southern France is to become a luxury hotel after being sold under a programme to modernise the country’s prisons.

A student has been left stunned after receiving two boxes of Weetabix instead of the MacBook laptop he ordered from Amazon.

A tribunal has ruled that a group of employees are due nearly CA$500,000 (£308,000) in wages after their employer paid out 50% of their salaries with company gift cards. The Canadian Employment Standards Tribunal (EST) dismissed an application from the Vancouver-based Dayton Boots Company appe

An ancient gold coin wrongly classified as a fake by specialists has proven the existence of a third century Roman emperor who was written out of history as a fictional character.

Mercedes-Benz has begun offering an "acceleration increase" option for $1,200 (£990) per year for some of its electric vehicles. Limited to Mercedes-EQ EQE and EQS all-electric models, owners would have their vehicles' speed unlocked via an over-the-air update allowing them to accelerate

The creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, Yuji Naka, has been arrested for alleged insider trading.

A plumber working in an Edinburgh flat was astonished to find a 135-year-old message in a bottle under the floorboards. Peter Allan cut a hole in the floor of a flat in Morningside when he discovered the whisky bottle complete with a rolled-up note.

A bank robber who wrote his demand note on the back of his birth certificate is facing jail. Missouri man Michael C. Loyd, 30, who left ample evidence of his guilt at the scene, pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery in a federal court last week.