It must be true...

I read it in the tabloids

■ An Irishman was arrested in Bucharest for allegedly breaking into Romania’s presidential palace at 4 a.m.— after drunkenly mistaking it for his hotel.The unnamed man managed to reach the third floor of the massive palace—the second-largest government building in the world after the Pentagon— having somehow evaded security. After sobering up, he told police he’d been partying in Bucharest’s old town, and couldn’t recall entering the 3,000-room palace. “It is a mystery how this guy managed to get in,” a source told The Irish Sun.

■ Lola, a 3-year-old cocker spaniel from Leeds, U.K., is causing double takes with a luxurious blond coif that has people asking if she’s wearing a wig. “We are constantly stopped,” said owner Rebecca Dobson, 22. “Because the hair on her head is such a different color to the hair on her body, people immediately assume it’s fake.” No coloring or hair extensions are involved, said Dobson, though she does accentuate the dog’s natural locks with blow-drying and other styling. Lola “loves me doing it,” she says. “She laps it up.”

■ An adventurous sea lion stunned San Diego motorists when it appeared on a highway interchange east of downtown, miles from the ocean. SeaWorld San Diego sent a rescue team to pick up the seal—and said it looked familiar. “This specific sea lion has a track record of wandering into odd places,” said a spokeswoman, noting that it had been found near the airport, at a navy base, and in other unlikely spots— though none as far from the water as the freeway. “This we are very, very surprised about,” said rescue supervisor Jeni Smith.