Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

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Keepers at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia have noticed a fashion trend spreading among groups of chimpanzees living there – sticking strands of grass in their ears or rectums, and just le

I’d promised my boy the best Christmas ever but came home to an inferno

We used to enjoy watching celebrities go off-piste — but now those moments are called “content” and have lost their frisson