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Tax dildos (Denmark). For the agricultural youth organisation Landbo Ungdom, life is a dildo party when you’re getting millions of kroner in funding from the government. Unfortunately for the group’s members, those days are over.

The Food and Agriculture Ministry recently discovered that [an] annual allotment to the organisation for ‘social interaction’ activities has been used to fund a dildo party, a ‘Miss Wet T-Shirt’ contest and drunken festivities in Spain.

Legal experts said the term ‘social interaction’ can be widely interpreted, though they generally agreed that [the group] had overstepped what was ‘morally’ acceptable.

Hellish Traffic on Sofia Ringroad (Bulgaria). Car drivers, heading for Boyana, Simeonovo and Dragalevtsi suburbs at the foot of Mount Vitosha, will have to pass through the heart of the city. Truck driver will have to come up with roundabout routes.

Faced with yet another inconvenience during the summer road repairs in the capital, drivers should console themselves with the vision of the new, southern lane of the ringroad.