A crypt near Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner is set to go up for auction and is expected to sell for between $200,000 and $400,000 (around £158,000-£316,000).
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Major food manufacturers have dismissed allegations of 'shrinkflation' – reducing product sizes while maintaining prices – despite evidence of smaller pack sizes, claiming changes are to improve product taste and quality. They argue that shoppers are "savvy" and any reductions are t
The door that was used on the set of Titanic has been sold at auction for almost a million dollars.
A man who learned printing skills in prison as part of a rehabilitative programme later put his skills to work counterfeiting bank notes, according to police. Bhupendra Singh Dhakat, a 35-year-old man from the state of Madhya Pradesh in India, was found to have nearly 100 counterfeit notes when arre
In an admission at the House of Lords that filled the chamber with laughter, former police chief Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate revealed he didn't report his wife's stolen credit card because the thief was spending less than she typically did. The North East peer left fellow Lords in stitches as he
The price of some popular Easter eggs have risen by 50% or more as climate change hits cocoa crops in West Africa.
A Robin Hood statue has been erected opposite the Bank of England in London coinciding with the UK launch of the stock trading app named after the Sherwood character.
Katie Price has been declared bankrupt for a second time over an unpaid tax bill worth over £750,000.
A group of affluent US homeowners in Salisbury, Massachusetts, spent $565,000 (around £443,000) to construct protective sand dunes near their properties, only for the barriers to be washed away within days by a severe storm. The residents had trucked in approximately 14,000 tonnes of sand
A China Southern Airlines flight was delayed over four hours on Wednesday after a passenger threw coins into one of the engines for supposed good luck. Flight CZ8805, from Sanya to Beijing, was scheduled to depart at 10am local time on 6 March but did not take off until around 2:16pm. State med
A letter sent by Lord of the Rings writer JRR Tolkien to a young fan is being put up for auction. The author wrote to eight-year-old Christopher Howard in 1961. Now, Mr Howard from Kent has decided to sell the letter after keeping it for sixty years.
A social media account posing as the "Government of East Africa" went viral after posting an image of a fake new single currency called the "sheafra". The East African Community was forced to dismiss the sheafra notes as rumours, confirming that plans for a regional currency remain a work in progres
A pair of security guards who found a huge bag of money left behind by robbers targeting their workplace pocketed the cash and went on a spending spree – before having it conned from them by fake police officers. The bizarre chain of events began with the robbery of Quest Financial Services in
A rare 130-year-old banknote is set to be sold at auction for an estimated sale price of £30,000. The note from the Birmingham branch of the Bank of England will be sold on Thursday.
The question of who invented butter chicken is to be resolved by an Indian court in a case which has already racked up over €200,000 in legal fees. The Delhi High Court is hearing a case brought by the owners of Delhi restaurant Moti Mahal against the Daryaganj restaurant chain amid rival claim