A housewife was convicted of attempted murder after she tried to kill her husband by mixing antifreeze into their wedding anniversary dinner.

The court of Stafford Crown found Kate Knight, 28, guilty of attempted murder after she laced her husband's curry and red wine with antifreeze back in 2005. Lee's ingestion of the tainted food and drink caused him to suffer from brain damage, and irreversible kidney failure.

A man posing as a Catholic priest was apprehended at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a routine body check found the man to be carrying 7 lbs of cocaine under his robes.

According to Dutch police, they got suspicious of the man whose identity had been withheld when they spotted him in line at a different gate after initially refusing to undergo a routine body check "for religious reasons."

A 47-year old grandmother was refused an alcohol purchase because she did not have her identification and could not prove that she was over 18.

Initially thinking that the checkout assistant was joking, Tina MacNaughton-Jones realized that the employee of the Waitrose store was indeed serious in telling her she could not buy the red wine due to the lack of proof of her age, reported Breitbart.com

Germany is to face European Union (EU) officials in a bid to save the designation of Apfelwein - its traditional apple wine - amid fears it is to be victim of new EU regulations.

Apfelwein, a beverage with five to seven percent alcohol content, comes from the country's south-western state of Hesse which includes the financial center Frankfurt.

A 77-year-old Swedish retiree Per-Eric Henriccson was asked by a local supermarket to show his identification card to prove that he was of legal age to purchase one case of beer.

Henricsson requested that the National Association of Senior Citizens contact the ICA supermarket in Galliver to demand the elderly be able to purchase what they want without showing their card.