Northwest 'Rat Apocalypse', Snooker Fan Shouts About Epstein Files, Shirtless Trump's Mystery Pool Post, Belgian Police Bust Boat Smugglers & Armenia's 'Escaped Zebra' Was a Painted Donkey

In a northwestern US county, a rat infestation has spiralled so far out of control that residents are catching rodents with their bare hands and forming neighbourhood "rat patrols" just to keep up. At the World Snooker Championship semi-final at the Crucible, a man stands up mid-match and starts shouting about the Epstein Files — security drags him out while the players stand at the table, completely bewildered. Former President Trump posts a late-night AI-assisted image of himself shirtless in a pool alongside cabinet members and a mystery woman in dark sunglasses — with no caption — sending the internet into a full-blown identification frenzy. Belgian police arrest forty suspected smugglers and over 360 migrants after boat gangs started launching "taxi boats" from West Flanders to dodge French coastal patrols. And in Yerevan, Armenia, an entire city goes on alert for an escaped zebra — until authorities corner the animal and discover it's a donkey painted with black and white stripes.Five stories. All real. All strange.The Daily Strange — where truth is always weirder than fiction.