Strange News

• Police officers fired for ignoring robbery in progress to play Pokemon Go

  Two officers with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) were fired for ignoring a robbery in progress to play Pokemon Go, according to recently released court documents.

• Watch the moment stolen dog reunited with her family - eight years after being taken from front garden

  A stolen dog has been reunited with her family - eight years after she was taken from the front garden.

• Mafia fugitive on the run for nearly 20 years found on Google Street View

  A Sicilian mafia fugitive who was on the run for nearly 20 years was caught after being spotted on Google Street View.

• Twins born 15 minutes apart end up having separate birthdays in different years

  Twins born just 15 minutes apart ended up having separate birthdays in different years - an event that has around a one in two million chance of happening.

• 'Big potato' statue cut down by vandals in village in Cyprus

  Police in Cyprus are investigating after a statue of a giant potato was found vandalised on New Year's Day.

• Man kidnapped as a child reunited with family after drawing map of home village from memory

  A man who was abducted by a child-trafficking gang at the age of four has been reunited with his family after sharing a map of his home village drawn from memory more than 30 years later.

• COVID-positive woman self-isolates in plane loo for five hours to protect other passengers

  A woman who tested positive for COVID during a transatlantic flight self-isolated for five hours in the plane's toilet to protect other passengers.

• Venus may have alien 'lifeforms in its clouds', scientists suggest

  Venus could be becoming "more habitable" after evidence of bacterial "lifeforms" were found in its clouds, scientists have said.

• Scientists find fossil of giant millipede 'size of car' - and speculate as to how it was killed off

  Giant millipedes as long as a car and weighing 50kg once hunted across northern England, experts have said, following the discovery of a 326 million-year-old fossil.

• Dachshund through the snow: Sausage dogs enjoy annual fancy dress walk

  Park goers in London were treated to the sight of sausage dogs in fancy dress being paraded through Hyde Park on Sunday.