Fact-finding mission? No, I wanted to dance to Whigfield

A Swedish MP came under fire this week for accepting a junket to Gran Canaria and writing about it for a travel website. However Frederick Federley claimed that it wasn't he who accepted the trip, but his drag persona 'Ursula'. "It's not me as an MP doing this; it's more a case of me travelling as my drag personality," he said, after returning from the trip where he stayed with his partner at a four-star hotel.

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We're going to
need a bigger
time machine

Police in Sicily are calling on forensic scientists and criminologists to help them solve a crime that happened nearly 500 years ago. The investi­ga­tion in Carini is attempting to un­ravel what happened when Baroness Laura Lanza was killed in a castle after being found in bed with her lover.

Robber makes shopkeeper
very cross

"It was just like this whole store filled with the power of God," is how a Texan shop­keeper described her experience of single-handedly ridding an armed robber from her shop by invoking Jesus. When the would-be robber pulled a gun, Marian Chadwick exclaimed, "In the name of Jesus, you get out of my store," and the crim­inal slowly backed out.

Divers flip out over Google mappers

This is one of several moments two scuba-dressed men in Norway tried to scupper Google Street View's content by chasing the Google van around streets in Bergen.