A polar bear is settling in to his new home in Doncaster after an unexpected encounter with a group of shocked migrants in Calais.
The bear, called Nissan, was in slow-moving traffic outside the French town when a group of people managed to open the back doors of his truck.
Three of them got into the truck’s compartment only to find the 22-month-old bear staring at them from his cage.
Magnets and attitudes on God
Attitudes towards God and immigrants can be altered by beaming magnetic energy into the brain, scientists have shown.
The bizarre experiment was designed to shed light on the way the brain resolves abstract ideological problems.
Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), the research team safely shut down certain groups of neurons in the brains of volunteers.
Beards, black flag, but not Isis
Alerted by a passer-by that bearded men with a black flag were acting suspiciously at a castle ruins in southern Sweden, police found to their relief that it wasn't a group of Islamic State sympathisers, but a meeting of hirsute do-gooders.
John Ekeblad, co-founder of the Swedish chapter of the Bearded Villains, says the incident ended with police acknowledging their mistake and even ignoring the brotherhood's illegal parking on the roadside by Brahehus Castle, outside the city of Jonkoping.
Mr Ekeblad said the incident was “hilarious” and that police drove off laughing. He explained the group promotes equality and does charity work in Sweden.
Bearded Villains, founded in 2014 in Los Angeles, California, calls itself “a brotherhood of elite bearded men from all over the world” on its website.
Plane lands on rush-hour road
A single-engine aircraft landed on Interstate 84 in Boise, Idaho, right at the start of rush hour traffic on Tuesday morning.
An Idaho State Police dispatcher said the small craft touched down about 7am on the eastbound lanes.
The spot where the plane landed is about a mile west of the Boise Airport. It’s not clear if the plane had just left the airport or was trying to get there.
Vet sues US state for pine cone
A Navy veteran is suing after what his lawyer describes as a 16-pound pine cone fell and crushed his skull in San Francisco.
Sean Mace is suing the US government, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior and San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park for five million US dollars.
Mr Mace’s lawyer, Scott Johnson, says the veteran was relaxing under a non-native pine tree at the maritime park when the cone fell, causing an irreversible brain injury. Mr Johnson says Mr Mace has had two surgeries and requires a third.
The park has already fenced off the grove and added signs warning “Danger: Giant seed pod falling from tree.”
Dog discovers winning ticket
A couple who were still in shock from winning nearly £150,000 on the EuroMillions Lottery have described how they burst into tears when their dog uncovered a second winning ticket for the same draw.
Jane and Alan Slater, of the Isle of Wight, had already started making plans for their future with their win after matching five numbers and the lucky star on the draw held on Tuesday, September 29.
But a few days later, Ms Slater, 59, had just taken her dogs, Ruby and Kai, for a walk and they were getting back into the car when Ruby disturbed the second winning ticket for another £150,000, which had been tucked into a catalogue and forgotten about.