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Bizarre birthday bash for Trump

A small group of Donald Trump fans celebrated the presumptive Republican nominee’s birthday with cake and balloons in a New Delhi park on Tuesday.

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Sardinia: giant table football game

Rally drivers had some fun in Sardinia as they celebrated the start of the Euro 2016 tournament.

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“Ghostbusters” fans gather to catch NY ghouls

Fans of the iconic “Ghostbusters” films gathered in the New York neighbourhood of Williamsburg for an unusual experience.

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Something fishy is going on here

This fish is trapped inside a jellyfish.

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Japan

Abandoned Japanese boy Yamato Tanooka leaves hospital

The Japanese boy lost for nearly a week after being abandoned by his parents for being naughty has left hospital to return home.

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World Cup for unrecognised states

Hosts Abkhazia won the alternative football World Cup for various unrecognised entities in Sukhumi, the capital of the Georgian breakaway…

Turkey

Airbus sunk off Turkish coast as attraction for divers

With somewhat unfortunate timing, Turkish authorities have sunk an Airbus plane off the Aegean coast to serve as a tourist attraction.

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And also...from a footballing own-goal in Spain to record-breaking dancing grannies

Via €1.7 bn under the bed a home delivery of water from the sacred Ganges and a horror cartoon in Germany.

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UK daredevils risk life and limb in cheese chase

Hundreds of people risked their limbs on Monday, running down a steep hill chasing a wheel of cheese in the Gloucestershire village of…

Germany

German MP suffers 'cake attack' over refugee stance

A German MP was hit in the face with a chocolate cake on Saturday, apparently in protest at her stance on refugees.

United Kingdom

Creative or crazy?: Brexit campaign videos

Much has been said about the UK-EU referendum recently.

China

China's bus that drives over cars

Part subway, part bus, a mass transporter known in Chinese as the “bus-way” has gone on show in Beijing.

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Pillow fight for peace

Hundreds of university students staged a pillow fight in the Colombian capital of Bogota as a symbolic act carrying a message of peace.

USA

Man, 64, becomes first successful US penis transplant

A 64-year-old man has become the first in the United States to undergo a successful penis transplant. Thomas Manning underwent the operation in

USA

Obama govt: US schools must respect transgender 'identity' over 'bathr

The US federal government is warning American schools not to discriminate against transgender students, as the row over so-called “bathroom laws”

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Partially swallowed up

A car fell into a sinkhole in a London road on Thursday morning and was resting on a utilities pipe which has prevented it from falling all the way

Spain

Spanish football club CD Palencia unveil 'inside out' kit

It was intended to produce a reaction, and it worked. Spanish third division (fourth tier) side CDPalencia have unveiled a new ‘anatomical’ kit. The

USA

Trayvon Martin gun is up for auction

Owner George Zimmerman was cleared of murdering the unarmed teenager in 2012

Sport

Russia batters Ukraine in a medieval dust up in Prague

Armour, weapons, men and women from all over the world fight in Prague in the Battle of Nations. The aim to recreate the drama of medieval combat

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England: Crash, bang, wallop!

Annual car jumping contest is held in southern England with 27-year-old Stuart Pateman declared the winner.