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BMW has reversed its controversial decision to charge customers an $18 monthly subscription fee for heated seats, a feature many drivers consider to be standard. The idea was to offer customers the option to activate this feature later, but the move backfired and has been scrapped before making it t

Turkish cryptocurrency entrepreneur Faruk Fatih Özer and his two siblings, Serap and Güven, have been sentenced to 11,196 years in prison each for a financial scandal involving millions of dollars. Mr Özer, who established the Thodex cryptocurrency exchange at the age of 22, gained no

In a tribute fit for a queen – quite literally – the East India Company, now a luxury lifestyle brand, has unveiled "The Crown Coin", a basketball-sized tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, worth a jaw-dropping £18.5 million. The coin was revealed to commemorate the first annive

Hyundai has launched an in-car payment service for its US drivers.

A hotel investigating the theft of 50 koi carp worth around £100,000 was surprised to identify an unexpected suspect: an otter. The Grosvenor Pulford Hotel, near Chester, installed CCTV cameras after the disappearance of the expensive fish, the BBC reports.

Beatles memorabilia worth an estimated £6 million has gone up for auction.

The head of a real estate agency which claimed to have sold a flat to a dog has been arrested in Iran. The arrest came after the agency published a video showing a couple signing over their home to a small white dog named Chester, The Jerusalem Post reports.

Motorists were warned to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates containing five million bees onto a road west of Toronto. Constable Ryan Anderson, who was at the scene, said: “Crates were literally on the road and swarms of bees were flying around. The initial beekeeper tha

A TV news crew preparing to film a segment about a rise in armed robberies was robbed at gunpoint. TV network Univision said its reporter and cameraman were preparing to film in Chicago on Monday morning when they were suddenly approached by three armed and masked men in two vehicles.

Burger King is being sued by disgruntled US customers who say the chain's famous Whopper isn't as big in real life as it is in adverts. A judge in Miami, Florida last week granted permission for the class-action lawsuit – alleging the burgers are advertised as "approximately 35 per cent larger

At least six people have taken up an offer of a year's free public transportation in Austria in exchange for getting a tattoo.

Thieves have robbed a donation box on one of Switzerland's most challenging mountain climbing routes.

A unique six-wheeled car with a wooden body is set to be auctioned for up to £3,000.

In what it is calling the "Great BrewDog Glass Amnesty", BrewDog customers have been invited to return glasses taken from their establishments in exchange for a free drink. James Watt, CEO of BrewDog, announced in a recent LinkedIn post that their Hazy Jane glass has become the most pilfered it

Italian cheesemakers have developed a microchip as small as a grain of rice to be used in their battle against cheese counterfeiters. The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium (PRC) said microtransponders installed in over 120,000 parmesan rinds to date are among "new methods" being deployed to help custom