Mourners at funeral accidentally eat cannabis cake

A funeral in Germany "ended on a high" when guests accidentally ate a cake laced with cannabis. The mourners unwittingly ate a cake left in the fridge by a woman’s 18-year-old daughter. The teenager is now under police investigation.

Did a Melania Trump body double attend baseball tie?

Theories that there is a body double of Melania Trump have re-emerged after claims that a doppleganger attended a baseball match with US President Donald Trump. After the couple showed up at the world series clash, a conspiracy theorist on Twitter led the stampede of scepticism, writing “That’s not Melania, it’s a body double with a fatter face.”

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Man arrested after joy-riding construction vehicle

A 46-year-old Kansas man was arrested after allegedly taking a joy ride on a stolen construction excavator. Shane Funk was caught riding the machinery through the Oakland neighborhood of Topeka early on Sunday morning. Officers shot him with non-lethal bean bag pellets to capture him.

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