A herd of goats jailed for a year after feasting on the foliage in a graveyard have been freed. The move to release the goats came after a new mayor…
This is the 99-year-old grandmother planning to stand politics on its head in Spain's local Town Hall elections this spring. Maria del Rosario - known as Charito to her fans…
A Syrian refugee who fled to Germany from his war-torn homeland has become the new mayor of a village just eight years after he arrived in the country. Ryyan Alshebl,…
Thousands of new apartments should be built above fast food restaurants like McDonald's to solve city housing shortages, politicians in Germany have urged. Left-wing members in the capital Berlin say…
A cat has been appointed the mayor of an Italian town and will remain in office for a year. Black and white moggy Miao spent her first day in office…
City officials in Austria are offering financial support for anyone taking up beekeeping in a bid to improve the region’s ecosystem. The council of Villach, in the southern province of…
A massive sinkhole linked to a copper mine has terrified locals in northern Chile. The 82-foot-wide hole appeared in the commune of Tierra Amarilla, in Atacama Region, close to the…
This teenage feminist activist has been shot dead during a protest on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Marisol Cuadras, 18, was a member of the…
This is the candidate for Mayor in a small French town who has won the municipal election on Sunday - despite being dead. Isabelle Paquet had been running for Mayor…
This viral footage with over 2.1 million views shows Patrick Balkany, the former mayor of the rich Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, who was deemed too old and weak to be…