Paris, France, Aug 7, 2026 (AFP) - Funny old world: the week's offbeat news

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2026-08-07

From a doubly lucky lottery winner to the dangers of boring budget meetings. Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world: - Luck's in after binmen muck in - The gamble of a lifetime paid off for an Italian lottery winner when she promised to pay a refuse company the cost of finding her dumped one-million-euro winning ticket. The woman from the southern Puglia region took her ticket to a shop to check if she had won, but the mac......

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