Let’s just say Jill VanGiesen has trouble letting go.

The 53-year-old Lansing, Mich., woman has accumulated 20 tons of trash in her home, and a judge has ordered her to clean up the health hazard.

She’s not exactly happy about it.

“It sort of breaks my heart when I see things like this that people could use,” VanGiesen said.

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A British mom is undergoing therapy – to try to overcome her fear of peas.

“I’d love to lead a normal life,” said Louise Arnold, 35, of Cheltenham, who flees restaurants if she spots the little green orbs on a plate, and panics when she sees them in a supermarket.

She’s gotten support from her pals, who bought her a shirt saying, “Give peas a chance.”

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Talk about sex education.

Cops say a gang of Austrian boys stole $31,000 worth of laptops, cellphones and cash from teachers and classmates at their school in Graz – to finance visits to hookers in the local red-light district.

How did they celebrate Women’s Day in the Romanian town of Giurgiu this year? Very naughtily.

Mayor Lucian Iliescu spent a whopping $18,000 to stage a party with lap-dancing male strippers to entertain the guests of honor.

He’s now under fire for wasting taxpayer money.

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Diane Cousins is going broke to try to find her lost dog.

She’s remortgaged her home in Bromley, England, to post a $75,000 reward for the return of her Labrador cross, Natasha, who vanished exactly one year ago, and is spending thousands more on posters and fliers.

“Financially, it has made life very difficult – but I’m never ever going to give up,” she said.

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Note from Down Under to the Great White North: “Lighten up!”

Canada has banned a scene from an Australian tourism commercial where a character lures visitors with the come-on, “We’ve poured you a beer!” – saying it wrongly promotes alcohol consumption.

Australian Tourism Minister Fran Bailey fumed, “Buying a mate a beer is about as Australian as you can get.”