Would you feel comfortable leaving the keys to your car inside your vehicle unattended? Actually, let's rephrase that. Would you feel comfortable leaving the keys to your rare $3.3 million Bugatti inside your vehicle unattended?

Well, that's exactly what Mate Rimac, founder and CEO of Bugatti's parent company Rimac Group, did.

Rimac says the car was parked at the company factory in Croatia, where Rimac is based. According to Rimac, the country is so safe that he usually leaves the keys in the car.

However, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, the car went missing. Once Rimac and his employees realized the car had been stolen and wasn't being driven by someone at the company, they checked the car's telemetry data, which includes location, speed, fuel level, and more.

Rimac and the local police quickly found that this would become an international incident as the thief evaded them at a gas station and then drove from Croatia into Slovenia. With help from the police from both countries, the thief was eventually apprehended.

A man who was caught in a car with more than £14,000 worth of drugs and a lamb named Pablo eating chips has been spared jail.

John McNeil, 56, was a passenger in Lindsey Sangster's vehicle when police stopped the pair on the M74 in Glasgow in April 2023.

A police dog later found £4,640 worth of cocaine and £10,050 worth of heroin from underneath the front passenger seat of the car.

Pablo, named after the Colombian drug lord, belonged to North Lanrigg Farm in Lanarkshire, and the court previously heard that owner Kirsty Mair had not permitted them to take the lamb.

McNeil and Sangster told the court they had tried to save the lamb from a “dangerous position” on the road. It was returned to Ms Mair after being seized.

McNeil and Sangster were found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court in September of possession of heroin and diamorphine with intent to supply.

Sheriff Tony Kelly ordered McNeil, of Fairlie, North Ayrshire, to do 300 hours of unpaid work and tagged him for six months, meaning he must stay indoors between 8pm and 5am.

Parent of the year!

The head of Quebec’s maple syrup producers’ association says the province’s strategic syrup reserve has run dry amid high demand for the product.

Québec Maple Syrup Producers President Luc Goulet says government support will be needed to ensure the industry doesn’t miss out on opportunities to grow the sector.

Maple syrup yields depend on weather conditions.

As a result, the producers’ association has established a strategic reserve to ensure prices and supply remain relatively stable.

“Our strategic reserve has been reduced to zero,” Goulet said in an interview at the release of a report on the industry’s economic benefits. That means the industry could lose customers if weather conditions are less favourable for maple sap flow, he said.

Goulet cites the stock shortages in 2007 and 2008 as an example.

Quebec maple syrup is gaining market share abroad, according to the president of the Maple Industry Council, which represents authorized buyers.

Louis Turenne notes that exports increased by 9.34 per cent in 2024 compared to the previous year. The pace accelerated in 2025 with a 15.8 per cent increase as the threat of new tariffs loomed over the industry.

In 2026, exports rose at a slower rate — 2.48 per cent from January through August compared to the same period the previous year. “It’s always hard to beat an exceptional year,” Turenne said.

Currently, nearly 65 per cent of maple syrup exports go to the United States “We’ve made significant progress in diversifying our markets in recent years. Twenty years ago, that figure was 80 per cent,” Turenne said.

“But we need to accelerate the opening and development of European, Australian, and Asian markets to become less dependent on the U.S. market,” he said.

An Ohio political blogger let out a surprised laugh as he was found guilty of harassment after he sent an explicit digitally altered image of the cartoon character Shrek to a powerful lawmaker.

For context, this was a marketing stunt:

The 44-second clip shows the heavily padded influencer take swipes at the imposing robot inside a plastic-lined octagon — but to no avail. The brief match has LaPenna getting repeatedly kicked in the chest and midsection, only to be thrown across the ring with one final kick, seemingly ending the fight. (The robot, in a theatrical twist, had been outfitted with a terrifying “Terminator”-like head.)

Besides, the stocky, 28-year-old influencer is well known for playing the heel in public and is willing to throw himself the line of fire for comedic effect. He recently has shared videos of himself crashing a bike into an office desk, jousting while standing on a boat, and even playing a game of cards in the vicinity of a raging bull.

In other words, the jury is still out on how an actual MMA fighter would fare against a six-foot robot. But considering what they’re going up against, we’d hazard a guess that it wouldn’t exactly be much of a fair fight. For one, humans bruise a whole lot easier than a construct made out of metal and plastic.

The court heard that in the early hours of 29 June, police received information there was a driver on the M6 northbound who was under the influence and was blind.

Hall was pulled over by a police officer after the Vauxhall was seen swerving near junction 42.

The officer who stopped Hall could smell alcohol on his breath and, when asked about this, the 50-year-old said he and his partner had drunk wine.

Hall told the officer he had gone blind about two years ago but could see some lights and he explained that while on the motorway he had followed an HGV's lights.

The distance Hall had travelled was about 150 miles and he had taken the car from his partner without permission, according to police.

Hall told police he had planned to drive to Scotland and wanted to escape his home, his relationship and his finances.

The court heard he had stopped for fuel at an unknown location where an attendant had filled up his car.

No-one was injured during the incident.

The goalkeeper, who played with his team to beat Erith Town 2-0 and reach the second qualifying round of the FA Cup on Saturday, is said to be reluctant to leave the UK, according to Ugandan news sites.

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A climber in British Columbia was rescued by helicopter after being stung more than 100 times by wasps in backcountry north of Vancouver.

Lions Bay Search and Rescue says in a social media post on Tuesday that the female climber was on Redoubt Wall near Loggers Creek when she encountered the insects.

Lions Bay Search and Rescue says they requested a helicopter extraction by North Shore Rescue as it was clear the climber would not be able to hike out.

Rescuers were dropped to the site to help airlift the climber through heavy tree canopy, and they were transferred to BC Emergency Health Services for care.

About 1,800 people in northern Japan have helped move a 360-tonne castle more than two metres by hand as part of a major preservation project.

Rotating teams pulled on 30-metre ropes attached to the Hirosaki Castle keep in Aomori prefecture, moving it 1.13m on Saturday and another 1.09m on Sunday.

The keep – a fortified tower within a castle – had been shifted from its original position in 2015 so workers could repair a castle wall damaged by a major earthquake.

Rather than dismantling the nationally designated “cultural property”, officials used hikiya, an ancient Japanese technique in which buildings are placed on rollers or rails and moved intact. The wall has now been rebuilt, with all 2,185 stones returned to their original positions.

Once used mainly to make way for urban development, road widening and other construction projects, hikiya has increasingly been used to preserve historic buildings in Japan that might otherwise have to be dismantled or destroyed.

“We had about 8,000 applications for the 1,800 slots over the last two days, roughly four times oversubscribed, so not everyone could participate,” Kensuke Hayasaka, head of the parks and green spaces division at Hirosaki City, was quoted as saying by the Guardian.

“Not only from the city, but from across Japan and overseas; a fair number from south-east Asia and from Europe and North America.”

Around 4,100 people were expected to help move the keep a total of 5m by hand this month, while machinery will complete the remaining 73m.

A Maine Coon kitten from Wisconsin overcame a perilous bout with pneumonia to break a 24-year-old world record for most toes on a cat, setting the new mark at 29.

Futurama anyone?

It's not something most people would picture being inside your average delivery package, but scientists say there's a global market online for preserved human remains — a niche hobby they say poses potential health hazards.

In a study published in the International Journal of Cultural Property, lead author Kirsty Squires and her team analyzed 128 web posts from 2015 to 2025 showing off or advertising remains from both humans and animals for sale.

"Mummified heads, hands and feet were very common," said Squires, a bioarchaeology professor at the University of Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Mummified body parts can harbour dormant microorganisms — such as bacteria, fungi and yeast — that the researchers warn could cause health issues for some people when not properly handled, though some experts say there's not much cause for concern for collectors who know what they're doing.

Earlier this month, an unidentified boat operator sailing through a fjord in northeastern Svalbard spotted a bear resting on land and responded by blasting the ship’s foghorn. The bear woke up and moved. The governor of the territory’s office issued a fine of $5,255 under Section 30a of the Svalbard Environmental Act, which prohibits needlessly disturbing, attracting, or pursuing a polar bear. The operator agreed to pay.

This wasn’t the first time this has happened. In June 2024, two guides with a French shipping company were each fined around $2,100 after steering paying guests in rubber boats toward a polar bear and cub feeding on a whale carcass in northern Svalbard. That incident was at least somewhat understandable, however dumb and misguided. Someone wanting a closer look is a human impulse. Blasting a foghorn at a sleeping bear is just being an a**hole.

The dioramas are all made with a one-to-one ratio. This means that each model cat soldier represents one soldier during the real battle, not 10 or 50. All of the dioramas are also all made to scale. If a hill looks like it would have been a monster to climb while dodging cannon fire and bullets, it was.

So if you have no change you get locked out of your home?

A swarm of jellyfish forced a shutdown of nuclear reactors at western Europe’s largest nuclear power station after clogging the pumps.

The Gravelines plant in northern France was left with only one of its six reactors operating at full capacity after the marine life disrupting cooling units on Monday, EDF said.

Images from the scene show groups of bright blue jellyfish in the waters around the plant, which then appear to have been sucked in to the pumps.

EDF said that around 100kg of jellyfish arrived on Saturday increasing to an influx of “several tens of tons” by Monday.

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Fishing vessels are now taking part in “preventive fishing operations” on a 24 hour basis with three fishing boats “constantly patrolling off the coast of the plant”.

The operations involve the jellyfish being caught by trawlers and then released offshore. Teams have also increased the frequency of cleaning the equipment at the pumping stations, according to EDF.

Insects, on the other hand, despite their tiny, poppy-seed-sized brains, have a perhaps surprising amount of wisdom when it comes to decision-making. Many insect problem-solving skills have, in fact, inspired algorithms for efficient deliberation in real-world human industries.