• Kristen Bishop, 33, and Sophie Miller, 26, were strangers from Texas until late March, when Miller called Bishop to reveal that both women were dating the same man, "Adam."
At first, Bishop didn't believe Miller's tale, but soon the facts came to light, and the two women cooked up a plot for revenge.
The Scottish Sun reported that Bishop and Adam had planned a vacation to Turkey for early April, which was just a few days after the revealing phone call.
When they landed in Istanbul, Bishop told him that she knew what had been going on; Miller met them at the airport, and the two women abandoned Adam, whom both had met on the dating app Hinge.
Bishop had changed all the reservations in his name to Miller's.
"His jaw dropped when he saw (Sophie)," Bishop said. "We became friends quite quickly after we met up," Bishop said of herself and Miller.
"We really bonded over the eight-day trip, and it's by far the happiest thing out of this unfortunate situation, that I found a great friend." [The Scottish Sun, 6/16/2021]
• The Dutch owners of a 61-year-old Noah's Ark replica and the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency are locked in an "impossible stalemate" over the huge vessel, which has been docked at Ipswich, England, since November 2019.
The MCA declared the 230-foot-long ark not to be seaworthy, so it cannot sail, the Ipswich Star reported, and the owners have been fined 500 pounds each day.
For their part, the owners say the boat, home to a biblical museum, was always categorized as a "non-certified floating object."
British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has been called in to intervene. [Ipswich Star, 6/4/2021]