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We bring you the most unusual, off-the-wall and occasionally laugh-out-loud headlines from this week.

• Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes → (Tom’s Hardware)
• Brother granted court orders against sister who repeatedly entered his room to clean it over 8 years → (Channel News Asia)
• Mathematicians have spoken: Monkeys will never be able to write Shakespeare → (The Independent)
• British daredevil dragged behind motorcycle at 159 mph → (UPI)
• Novel way to beat dengue: Deaf mosquitoes stop having sex → (BBC)