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A Romanian man has won a year-long fight to persuade the courts that he is not dead. Bungling civil servants had mixed Gheroghe Stirbu, from Timisoara, up with another man. Judges renewed his status as alive and then charged him AUD $1140 in court costs.

A calendar featuring England's prisons has become an unlikely best-selling stocking filler for Christmas. It follows the surprise success of the Boring Postcard books, which became an overnight hit with pictures of freeway service stations, roundabouts and shopping centres

Berlin city officials, summoned by complaints over the noise, found a 60-year-old man sharing his two-room flat with 1700 budgerigars. The floors were saturated with droppings. The pensioner said he had adopted two birds because he felt lonely and that nature had done the rest.

A 23-year-old horse has gone from painting a fence around a paddock in Reno, Nevada, to having its abstract art sell for more than $4300 at a gallery in Italy. Owner Renee Chambers said it all began when her husband suggested she give their mustang, Cholla, a brush.