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The quarter-final match between Alexander Zverev and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells had to be temporarily suspended on Thursday after a swarm of bees descended on the court. Play was suspended at 1-1, 15/0 in the first set, just nine minutes into the clash, when thousands of bees swarmed Stadium 1. Alcaraz, who was serving, started to lash out and then fled to the dressing room. The official X account of the tournament showed pictures of numerous bees gathering on a television camera. "I've never seen anything like it in my 39 years of tennis. Unbelie...
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Police in Italy have stopped what is believed to be one of the oldest traffic offenders of all time with no driving licence, no insurance, but a proud 103 years old. The pensioner, born in 1920, was driving her car in the centre of the small northern Italian town of Bondeno in the middle of the night, authorities said on Tuesday. She attracted attention because she was driving quickly but repeatedly through the same streets at around 1 am (0000 GMT). During the check, a police patrol discovered that her driving licence had been expired for two years. In addition, the old lady no longer had ins...
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Hikers in southern Germany discovered 80 live fish in the grass next to a mountain trail in Bavaria on Sunday, according to police. The hikers immediately reported the carp to the authorities after spotting the live fish on the side of the trail near the town of Harburg, police said, but none of the fish survived. Investigators believe that unknown perpetrators likely threw the live fish into the grass from a vehicle. The trail runs near an electric transmission line. Police have launched a criminal investigation into violations of Germany's Animal Welfare Act. According to the local veterinar...
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A bullet fired from the revolver used in the murder of John Lennon in New York in 1980 is to go under the hammer in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £2,000 ($2,500). Auctioneers Anderson and Garland are selling the souvenir on behalf of the family of Brian Taylor, a British policeman who served with the police force of Northumbria, the region in which Newcastle is located. Taylor was permitted to fire the weapon during a 1984 visit to the New York Police Department. He himself had come under fire while travelling in a police car during the visi...
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A bullet fired from the revolver used in the murder of John Lennon in New York in 1980 is to go under the hammer in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £2,000 ($2,500). Auctioneers Anderson and Garland are selling the souvenir on behalf of the family of Brian Taylor, a British policeman who served with the police force of Northumbria, the region in which Newcastle is located. Taylor was permitted to fire the weapon during a 1984 visit to the New York Police Department. He himself had come under fire while travelling in a police car during the visi...
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A bullet fired from the revolver used in the murder of John Lennon in New York in 1980 is to go under the hammer in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £2,000 ($2,500). Auctioneers Anderson and Garland are selling the souvenir on behalf of the family of Brian Taylor, a British policeman who served with the police force of Northumbria, the region in which Newcastle is located. Taylor was permitted to fire the weapon during a 1984 visit to the New York Police Department. He himself had come under fire while travelling in a police car during the visi...
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Prosecutors in Hanover have dropped a criminal public corruption investigation into local police officers who accepted free meals of currywurst from a training instructor. The investigation had targeted 17 employees from Hanover's Central Police Directorate (ZPD) under suspicion of accepting the free sausages soaked in curry ketchup. Currywurst is a beloved fast-food dish in much of Germany. A spokeswoman for the local public prosecutor's offce in Hanover confirmed to dpa that they had ditched the currywurst corruption case. She told Hanover's Allgemeine newspaper that there wasn't sufficient ...
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A 4-metre-long python was discovered dead in a Berlin park this week, prompting animal welfare advocates in the German capital to call for stricter regulations on exotic animals. The massive dead reptile was found in the busy Hasenheide park in central Berlin on Tuesday evening. Berlin authorities said they believe the snake is a tiger python. Authorities have not disclosed whether anyone in the area had a licence to keep such a snake, or provided other details on where the dead python may have come from. It was not immediately clear whether the snake died in the park, or whether someone dumpe...
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A 4-metre-long python was discovered dead in a Berlin park this week, prompting animal welfare advocates in the German capital to call for stricter regulations on exotic animals. The massive dead reptile was found in the busy Hasenheide park in central Berlin on Tuesday evening. Berlin authorities said they believe the snake is a tiger python. Authorities have not disclosed whether anyone in the area had a licence to keep such a snake, or provided other details on where the dead python may have come from. It was not immediately clear whether the snake died in the park, or whether someone dumpe...
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With no snow amid days of rain, a group of Bavarians turned to bales of hay to build the giant snowman that has risen annually on a village market square in southern Germany for more than 35 years. A farmer from a nearby village provided 30 bales of hay, which the builders wrapped in white foil to build the snowman, dubbed Jakob, on the square in Bischofsgrün, located not far from the city of Beyreuth. It's the first time in the event's history that local volunteers were unable to find enough snow to build the snowman, according to Wilhelm Zapf of the town's tourist information office. Every y...
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