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Soup company Campbell's has canned a senior staff member who allegedly described their products as "s**t for f***ing poor people". The company is facing a lawsuit in the US from a former employee who says he was sacked for reporting the foul-mouthed tirade.

Traders can now bet on the future price of Labubus, among other limited release products, thanks to Kalshi Inc. The American financial exchange and prediction market has partnered with resale giant StockX to launch a novel form of speculation – betting on the future resale value of high-demand

A man has been arrested for allegedly dressing up as his dead mother in order to claim her pension while hiding her mummified body at home. Police in the Italian city of Mantua have released photographs of Graziella Dall’Oglio and her 56-year-old son, who used a wig and makeup to steal her ide

A Canadian woman’s plan to host relatives for the 2026 Formula One Grand Prix descended into chaos after her hotel reservation was cancelled due to a "price error". Erika Mann had secured a four-room unit at Montreal’s Holland Hotel via Booking.com for CA$4,300 (c. £2,320), only to

A gold pocket watch belonging to the wealthiest man aboard the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking £1.78 million, becoming the most expensive piece of memorabilia from the ill-fated liner ever auctioned. The 18-carat Jules Jurgensen timepiece, originally gifted to retail magnate Isidor Stra

A schoolteacher who made headlines for being struck off after selling explicit photos online has been slapped with a £25,000 fine for refusing to pay her taxes. Kirsty Buchan, 34, was struck off as a teacher in Scotland in June after pupils discovered her profile on OnlyFans, where she adverti

A wind farm worker who was secretly siphoning electricity to mine cryptocurrency has avoided jail. The man, a technical manager for Nordex in the Netherlands, admitted setting up crypto miners at wind farms in Gieterveen and Waardpolder, according to The Register.

The United States Mint has announced an auction to celebrate 232 years of producing one-penny coins, which has come to an end.

A French man who found a treasure trove of gold bars and coins when he dug up his garden to build a swimming pool may be forced to hand over the hoard to their heirs of its presumed original owner.

A Twitter hacker who breached the accounts of celebrities including Barack Obama and Jeff Bezos has been forced to hand over £4 million.

A coffee chain in China has been compelled to apologise and alter its communist-style branding following heavy criticism in state media. The "People's Coffee Shop" deliberately designed its shopfronts to resemble the masthead of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communis

A fortune teller has been arrested on suspicion of defrauding around £35 million from clients. The 53-year-old woman, who also presented herself as a feng shui master, allegedly preyed on clients by predicting that there was a "billionaire" in their future.

A trio of thieves disguised as construction workers stole a safe containing more than $3.2 million (c. £2.44m) worth of jewellery from a New York home last month, police said. The suspects, dressed in neon vests and hard hats, broke into the Jamaica Hills residence through a back door around 2

A hoard of 70 Tudor coins, unearthed by a family digging a flowerbed during the 2020 lockdown, has sold at auction for just over £380,000. The collection, dubbed "The New Forest Hoard", was discovered at a home near Milford on Sea, Hampshire, in April 2020. The family initially found 63 gold c

A judge has imposed a fine of more than £1,000 on the owner of a cat for trespassing into a neighbour's garden – with further fines threatened for future transgressions. Dominique Valdès, who lives in Béziers in southern France, said hearing the controversial ruling about h