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A famous Scottish pearl is set to be sold at auction for up to £60,000.

A report from the France's top audit court, Cour des Comptes, has highlighted high spending concerns after the French President's office incurred expenses of almost €475,000 (c. £400,000) for a state dinner hosted in honour of King Charles. The opulent banquet, held in September at t

The famous gold bikini worn by the late Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars has sold at auction for $175,000 (£136,000).

A six-acre island off the Devon coast complete with private beach, fortifications, planning permission for a luxury hotel, and reportedly 15 ghosts, has been put up for sale. Drake's Island, just 600 yards from Plymouth, was used as a military defence for hundreds of years – with 18th-century

Germany has objected to Turkish efforts to impose rules across the EU on what can and can't be called a doner kebab. Turkey is trying to secure 'traditional speciality guaranteed' status for doner, strictly defining it as beef and lamb horizontally sliced into cutlets with a thickness of 3-5mm, or c

'Intimate' letters and cards written by Princess Diana are to be sold at auction.

The company behind plans drawn up by Silicon Valley billionaires for an $800 million (c. £620m) utopia in central California have been forced to put the project on hold after the release of a report highlighting huge potential costs to taxpayers. California Forever had promised

A pair of John Lennon's glasses are to be sold at auction at the end of this month.

Fake olive oil worth almost $1 million (c. £767,000) has been seized from an alleged criminal gang in Italy. Italian police arrested seven people and raided more than a dozen garages and warehouses in the major overnight operation last week, CNN reports.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million (c. £21m) San Francisco mansion is reportedly riddled with problems, according to a lawsuit filed by Altman's legal team. The luxury abode located in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood, was said to once be the most expensive listing in San Francisco,

A dinosaur's skeleton has been sold for $44.6 million (£34m) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City.

An art gallery which became embroiled in a discrimination row over a women-only exhibition space has admitted the supposed Picasso paintings displayed there were fake all along. A court ruled earlier this year that Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) could not lawfully bar men from its Ladie

A thirteen year old girl in China has spent around 449,500 yuan (£65,742) of her parent's savings on mobile games. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the girl found a debit card in her home and linked it to her smartphone to pay for the games.

A town in Sweden is giving southern European property a run for its money, as it offers plots of land for less than a cup of coffee. Götene, 200 miles southwest of Stockholm, is offering 29 plots of land for as little as 1 krona – equivalent to around 7 pence – per square metre

A Japanese man has sparked outrage after allegedly withdrawing ¥40 million (£220,000) from his 82-year-old grandmother's bank account to fund his mobile gacha game addiction. The man's younger brother took to social media to seek advice, revealing on X that the family had attempted to reso