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In an upcoming auction featuring over 1,800 pieces of film and TV memorabilia, the iconic C-3PO head, famously worn by Anthony Daniels in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, is anticipated to be the star attraction, fetching a sum of up to £1 million. The piece from Mr Daniels' personal trove

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A global crypto scammer, who posed as a helping hand to investors, has successfully prosecuted by his victims, from whom he stole around £20,000 in bitcoin which would have been worth as much as £725,000 today. Doede Osman Khan, a 50-year-old resident of Staffordshire, presented himself

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A medicinal cannabis farm has seen its entire crop wiped out by an invading herd of sheep who ate around 300kg of cannabis, according to reports. Yannis Bourounis, owner of the farm in Almyros, Greece, told In.gr that the sheep ate everything that was left after Storm Daniel destroyed most of the pl

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One of the world's oldest whiskies is set to go up for auction after it was discovered in a cellar at Blair Castle in Perthshire.

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After compelling Tesla's directors to repay $735 million (around £605m) to the automaker, accusing them of awarding themselves excessively, a legal team is now petitioning for a substantial payday of their own. They are seeking approval for a staggering $229m (around £188m) in fees, tran

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A lawyer who defrauded clients of almost £2 million after falling for a lottery scam has been jailed for four years. Scammers convinced Norwich solicitor Hugh Lansdell, 74, that he had won a postcode lottery in Spain but needed to hand over increasing amounts of cash to access his winnings.

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A New Zealand couple have received a $1,410 NZD (around £960) refund after spending a 13-hour flight seated next to a farting dog. Gill and Warren Press faced the unanticipated inconvenience on their premium economy flight from Paris to Singapore.

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NatWest has remedied an IT glitch that led thousands of customers to believe they were missing funds. The issue was first identified on Thursday when the customers noticed discrepancies in their cash balances on the bank's ATMs. Many took to social media with their worries about potentially facing b

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Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being sued by his own lawyers over an alleged unpaid legal bill of $1.36 million (£1.1m). The disputed bill relates to services provided since 2019, including early representation in some of the notorious election rigging cases, NBC News reports.

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An exceptionally well-preserved Camptosaurus dinosaur skeleton, named 'Barry', is set to captivate bidders at a Parisian auction next month with an estimated price of $1.28 million (around £1m). Discovered in Wyoming in the 1990s, the late Jurassic-era relic stands at 2.1 metres and stretches

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A Danish artist has been ordered by a Copenhagen court to return 492,549 kroner (around £58,000) to the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg after he delivered two blank canvases. Originally, the museum commissioned artist Jens Haaning to embed banknotes into two pieces of art for a project titled "

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The owner of a surfing python has been fined after breaching the strict conditions of his animal permit. Higor Fiuza was filmed longboarding with three-year-old carpet python Shiva off Australia's Gold Coast in footage which went viral on social media this month, ABC reports.

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Skyrocketing cocaine exports are set to overtake oil as Colombia's main export, according to a new analysis. The country's oil exports dropped by nearly a third in the first half of the year while its cocaine exports are expected to outperform a record set in 2022, Bloomberg reports.

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Bill Gates booked a Michelin-Star restaurant for two days straight to drink a Diet Coke and leave without eating any of the $313 meal.

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In a deal that's breaking records and raising eyebrows, Apple has reportedly paid $5 million (£4m) for the rights to Michael Lewis's unpublished book, Going Infinite, centred around the infamous Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), founder of now-collapsed crypto exchange FTX. The figure is unprecede

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