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Elon Musk's SpaceX is to pay an undisclosed sum to the makers of party game Cards Against Humanity after trespassing on land which was purchased to frustrate the construction of Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico.

Albania's AI minister is "pregnant" with 83 children, the Albanian prime minister has announced. Edi Rama appeared on stage with "Diella", the AI chatbot appointed as Albania's minister of state for artificial intelligence, at the Berlin Global Dialogue on Saturday.

JPMorgan Chase has opened its new 60-storey, $3 billion (c. £2.25bn) global headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, a building designed to be a powerful recruitment tool and a model for the company's future offices. The all-electric tower, located at 270 Park Avenue, will accommodate 10,000 employe

A metal detectorist has unearthed what is potentially the largest hoard of Roman coins ever discovered in Wales. David Moss, from Cheshire, found up to 15,000 coins contained within two clay pots at a "virtually untouched" location in north Wales this August. The 36-year-old, who has been detecting

A hoard of 321 "mint condition" silver coins, uncovered during excavations for the Sizewell C power plant, has been donated to Suffolk County Council's Archaeological Service for safekeeping.

The Gibraltar International Bank (GIB) has issued a formal apology after a significant cultural error in its Diwali greeting. The government-owned bank caused embarrassment when it published a photograph intended to celebrate the Hindu Festival of Light, which featured several individuals dressed in

A city in Catalonia has outright banned the adoption of black cats in the run-up to Halloween over fears they could be used in satanic rituals. The move was announced last week by the city council of Terrassa, a city of nearly 230,000 people in the vicinity of Barcelona.

A Dalkeith homeowner may be forced to dismantle a six-foot fence after enclosing a strip of public land beside their property.

A tourist who stole a large chunk of an ancient Greek column in the 1960s has returned it more than half a century later. Greece's Ministry of Culture yesterday announced the repatriation of the fragment of a limestone Ionic capital from the Leonidaion, which accommodated athletes during the ancient

Chinese officials have seized tens of thousands of maps for supposedly mislabelling Taiwan. Around 60,000 maps were seized by customs officers in China's eastern province of Shandong, according to the BBC. 

A regional social media team for the cryptocurrency exchange Backpack made an unusual offer to traders who lost significant sums during a market flash crash last Friday: 200 KFC meal vouchers.

A man searching for fishing bait near his summer house in the Stockholm area has unearthed one of Sweden’s largest-known medieval silver hoards. The trove, weighing approximately six kilograms, contains thousands of silver coins, rings, pendants, and beads believed to date from the 12th centur

A violin believed to have been Albert Einstein's first has sold at a Gloucestershire auction for £860,000, greatly exceeding its £300,000 estimate. The final cost to the buyer will be over £1.08 million once the 26.4% commission is added.

A start-up has unveiled its vision for a spider-like robot which it says could be used to advance lunar explorations and provide low-cost, low-carbon housing on Earth. Crest Robotics says "Charlotte" could construct a 200 m² home in a single day, using an extrusion system developed by a partner

Family-run bottler Gordon & MacPhail is releasing the world’s oldest single malt Scotch whisky, an 85-year-old Glenlivet valued at over £15 million. Distilled in 1940 and matured in a single sherry cask, Cask 336, the spirit was bottled in February 2025.