Police are investigating allegations of food contamination at a crown court in east London after judges' lunches at Snaresbrook Crown Court were allegedly spiked with urine. The Sun newspaper said it was feared someone with a grudge against the justice system had launched a revenge campaign. Traces of urine were believed to have been found in soups, salads and sandwiches.

An unidentified Scrooge poisoned visitors to two of Berlin's popular Christmas markets with an offer of tiny bottles of liquor that were laced with vomit-inducing chemicals, police said on Friday. The suspect, who was in his mid-40s, hit two of the traditional holiday fairs on Thursday and at the first, spoke to two foreign students, a man and a woman in their mid-20s, in English.

If cat poop coffee is just too passé, then coffee made from beans that have passed through the digestive tract of the rare South American Jacu bird may be for you. The bird apparently eats only the best, ripest Arabica berries and excretes the beans in piles under the coffee trees, which are then collected, washed, dried and roasted in the usual way.

When Dani was pregnant she didn't share any odd food cravings with me. She may have had them, but the only thing she sent me out for was Kraft cheese slices. I brought home a 36 pack and she went through them in a few hours. Pretty mundane when compared to Alison Brierley of Harrogate, North Yorkshire (that's in the UK).