A man has been released from a North Carolina prison after 35 years behind bars for stealing a black-and-white TV.

Junior Allen was a 30-year-old migrant farm worker from Georgia – with a criminal history that included burglaries and a violent assault – when he sneaked into an unlocked house and stole a $140 television set in 1970. He’s now 65.

“I won’t be truly happy until I see a sign that says I’m outside of North Carolina,” Allen said.

Contestants in a traditional British cheese-rolling competition broke bones and skinned their knees and elbows in pursuit of a giant waxy wheel down a steep hill.

Teenager Chris Anderson, who was carted off to Gloucestershire hospital on a stretcher happily clutching his winning slab, exclaimed, “The pain was worth it!”

Canada’s post office is threatening to stop mail deliveries to a woman in Ottawa – because her doorstep is three inches too high.

Christine Charbonneau said she went to check her mail last week and found her doorstep being measured by a postal worker who told her it was over the maximum limit specified by building regulations.

She now has to reduce the size of the step or face a mail cut-off.

Firefighters responding to a flooded first-floor apartment discovered a 100-pound pig, two 6-foot-long pythons, a crocodile and several cats swimming in the water.

The miniature zoo was uncovered thanks to an overflowing bathtub, leaving neighbors in Vienna, Austria, stunned.

Reiner Hamer probably wishes he stayed in bed one night last week after he was mugged three times – in one hour.

Three men attacked Hamer, 27, in a German nightclub, taking his phone and wallet. As he waited outside for cops, three other men jumped him, stealing his watch and cigarettes.

Then, as he was recovering from the second ordeal, another five men assaulted him, grabbing his jacket and the last of the small change.