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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

New research led by the University of Stirling has revealed the existence and fate of many fragments of the Stone of Destiny, notably those which were secreted away after the ancient artefact was taken from Westminster Abbey by a group of Scottish nationalist students early on Christmas morning 1950

A never-before-released whisky is expected to raise up to £70,000 in support of archaeological excavation works in the Cairngorms. The Glenlivet Eternal Collection, Second Edition, 56 Year Old, 1 of 1 is the second release in a partnership between Chivas Brothers and Sotheby's.

Kim Kardashian has blamed her "frenemy" ChatGPT for failing her law exams. In a video for Vanity Fair, the 45-year-old reality TV star said she relies on the AI tool for "legal advice".

A rifle which belonged to Annie Oakley – the 19th-century American sharpshooter who inspired the musical Annie Get Your Gun – failed to make its minimum asking price when it went up for auction yesterday. 

A man who donated a large sum of money that he found a year earlier to a charity has been praised by police.