The British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar off Spain’s south coast has officially been declared a city after a 180-year delay. Residents have long been pushing for the status, only to discover that Queen Victoria had awarded it to them in 1842. We can be a bit slow with the paperwork too, so people in glass houses… 

Two Air France pilots have been suspended after it emerged that the pair had a fistfight during a flight in June. No wonder they call it a cockpit… 

And Philadelphia man Joie Henney has stunned onlookers with his emotional support alligator named Wally. “He’s just loveable. He sleeps with me, steals my pillows, steals my blankets. He’s just awesome.” Henney claims that Wally “refuses to bite”, which is great, but he does sound like an annoying bedfellow…