Benefit Cheat Caught Pulling Pints, Mayor's Wife Flies to Mallorca During Heatwave, Kebab Firm's Fake Lamb Scandal, Soldier Chases Drone by Helicopter & 'Doctor Trump' Diagnoses Rivals

A woman who claimed she was too ill to even take a bath — and collected £37,000 in benefits — avoids prison after being caught working shifts behind the bar at a pub. The wife of New York's progressive mayor boards a flight to Mallorca while he is publicly urging residents to keep their air conditioning no higher than 78°F during a 100°F heatwave. A kebab firm is exposed for feeding millions of Britons goat meat, chicken drumsticks, and animal fat — all labelled as lamb — in a scandal being compared to the horsemeat crisis. Ireland's Defence Forces release a video showing a soldier with a machine gun leaning out of a helicopter to chase a small unmanned drone — released just as the country assumes the EU Presidency amid rising concerns about Russian drone threats. And in an AI-generated clip, a character called "Doctor Trump" diagnoses political rivals with a condition he calls "Derangement Syndrome."Five stories. All real. All strange.The Daily Strange — where truth is always weirder than fiction.