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Hundreds of thousands of litres of counterfeit olive oil have been seized as part of a wide-ranging criminal investigation into an international olive oil racket. Spanish and Italian police, working with Europol, arrested 11 people in closely co-ordinated raids targeting a gang believed to be produc

UEFA has launched an investigation after "sex noises" disrupted the draw of groups for the Euro 2024 championship and were broadcast internationally. "Unexplained moaning noises" could be heard as members of Group A – of Germany, Scotland, Hungary and Switzerland – were drawn in Hamburg,

A senior Paraguayan government official has lost his job after signing an agreement with a fake country led by a suspected sex offender. Arnaldo Chamorro, chief of staff in Paraguay's agriculture ministry, told reporters that he had signed an agreement with representatives of the "United States of K

A notorious drug trafficker has handed his artificial island in Dubai to the Italian authorities in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence. Raffaele Imperiale, 49, told a court in Naples that he paid €12 million for 'Taiwan', which forms part of the artificial archipelago called "The World", con

A new board game aimed at raising awareness about common financial scams will soon be available to play in RBS branches in Glasgow and Livingston.

A Virgin Atlantic flight powered by cooking oil is set to make its inaugural journey today.

A handwritten lyric sheet for two of David Bowie songs is expected to sell for up to £100,000 when it is sold at auction. The sheet contains a series of corrections, drafts and notes written by the singer when he was creating his Rock n Roll Suicide and Suffragette City tracks.

The day after Thanksgiving is widely known as "Black Friday" for retailers and shoppers across the US, but plumbers said they refer to it as "Brown Friday" because they encounter an influx of sewage and dirty sink water.

Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler is to auction more than 120 of his guitars and amps, with a total of 25% of the proceeds pledged to go to charity.

A musical based on Gwyneth Paltrow's high-profile court battle with an optometrist who claimed he skied into her is to be staged in London. Gwyneth Goes Skiing, featuring original music by American singer-songwriter Leland, will be performed in the Pleasance Theatre from 13–23 December.

Renowned Colombian pop artist Shakira has consented to a €7.3m (around £6.4m) fine with Spanish prosecutors to settle tax evasion charges, circumventing a court trial in Barcelona. The fine is half of the €14.5m (around £12.7m) purportedly owed in taxes during 2012-2014, a

A rare bottle of Macallan whisky has sold for £2.2 million making it the highest-priced whisky to ever be sold at auction.

The federal government of Canada has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants from KPMG for advice on cost-cutting – specifically, on how to reduce spending on consultancy. This irony is steeped in the recent documents tabled in Canada's Parliament, detailing a hefty sum of $669,6

A vintage Ferrari has been sold at auction for £42 million. 

A lawyer who quit her job to become a full-time animal psychic has said she is now happier and earning more money. Nikki Vasconez charges $550 (around £441) for an "animal communication session" in which she purports to speak with any animal, living or dead, for up to 90 minutes.