A court has heard details of an "audacious raid" in which a £4.8 million solid gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The 18-carat gold toilet, part of an art exhibition, was taken in just five minutes during the early hours of 14 September 2019.
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A life-size portrait of Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the Soviet Union are set to be sold at auction.
A man whose credit card was stolen and used to buy a €500,000 (£414,000) winning lottery scratchcard in France has appealed to the thieves to come forward so they can split the prize. The winning ticket, purchased in Toulouse, has yet to be submitted for collection.
A construction worker has won a supercar worth £164,000 in a competition which cost him just 29p to enter. Ciprian Cocoveica, from Basildon, won a Lamborghini Huracan in BOTB’s Supercar Competition.
Blink-182 star Mark Hoppus will auction a rare Banksy painting that is estimated to be worth up to £5 million.
Google has been fined by a Russian court for hosting YouTube videos which instruct Russian soldiers in Ukraine on how to surrender. The fine of 3.8 million rubles (around €40,000 or £33,000) was imposed by Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday, according to Russia's state-owned TASS
Mexico will sue Google if it continues to label the entire Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", the country's president has warned. One of Donald Trump's first acts on his return to the White House was to sign an executive order purporting to rename the body of water.
Argentinian president Javier Milei is facing calls for his impeachment after allegedly promoting a cryptocurrency "scam". In a post to Elon Musk's X platform on Friday night, Mr Milei appeared to back the $LIBRA cryptocurrency coin, which he said was "dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argen
A Welsh computer engineer is considering buying an entire landfill site after a decade-long battle with local officials to search for a hard drive containing an estimated £620 million in lost Bitcoin. James Howells, 39, says his ex-partner mistakenly discarded the drive, containing his Bitcoin
Over 5,000 artists have called for Christie's auction house to cancel its first-ever AI art auction, labelling it "mass theft" of human artists' work.
A couple who bought a £32.5 million mansion can hand it back and have most of their money returned after they found out it had a "severe moth infestation", a High Court judge has ruled. Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak successfully sued William Woodward-Fisher, the vendor of their proper
Nearly a quarter of a million Danes have backed a call for Denmark to purchase California from the US. The joke online petition is a response to Donald Trump's repeated – and rebuffed – demands to purchase Greenland from Denmark.
President Donald Trump has instructed the US Treasury Secretary to cease production of one-cent coins.
A colony of beavers has saved Czech authorities nearly £1 million on a long-awaited construction project. The beavers jumped the gun on a seven-year-long dispute by constructing a series of dams exactly where local authorities wanted to build them.
Two historic Delftware plates owned by a family in Devon have been sold at auction for over £20,000.

