And finally...

A racing pigeon that survived an 8,000-mile (13,000km) journey across the Pacific Ocean from the US to Australia, is to be put to death over fears it may be carrying disease.

A driver travelling from the UK had his ham sandwiches confiscated by Dutch border guards, who said they were now prohibited under post-Brexit rules.

Two fishermen have rescued a naked fugitive who they found sitting on a tree branch in Australian crocodile habitat.

A US police officer called to charge two women for shoplifting instead paid for them to have Christmas dinner with their children.

People suffering from long COVID are reporting a strong smell of fish, sulphur and a sweet sickly odour, as further symptoms of the virus emerge.

Members of the US Space Force will be known as "guardians", it was announced on the military service's first birthday.

Scientists have described the ways an ancient "crazy beast", which lived alongside dinosaurs on Madagascar approximately 66 million years ago, broke the rules of evolution.