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Over 120 items of musical equipment belonging to rock musician Jeff Beck have been sold at auction for £8.7 million.

The iconic house featured in the 1990 classic Christmas film Home Alone has sold for $5.5 million (c. £4.5m) – $250,000 over asking price (c. £200,000). Located in Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago, the five-bedroom, six-bathroom property was listed in May 2024 for $5.25m and quickly r

A team of seven sanitation workers in Shandong province, eastern China, has been praised after they recovered a groom-to-be's wedding savings of 230,000 yuan (c. £26,000) from four tonnes of rubbish. The man had accidentally discarded a takeaway bag containing the cash, which he and his fianc&

An early draft of Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine man lyrics has sold for $508,000 (c. £416,000) at auction.

Monkeys with discerning tastes have been accused of robbing a house of gold jewellery. The simians allegedly broke into the home in Talalla, in southern Sri Lanka, while the residents were working in the garden.

A collection of letters and drawings from the writer of Winnie the Pooh are set to go up for auction this week after being found in a carrier bag. 

An online scammer tricked a woman out of more than €800,000 using AI-generated pictures of Brad Pitt. The 53-year-old French woman, named only as Anne, recently appeared on a French TV show to recount her story, saying that she was entirely convinced that the Hollywood star had fallen in love w

Glasses belonging to UK comedy legend Eric Morecambe have sold for £20,000 at auction.

A judge has annulled a marriage where the bride was tricked into going along with what she believed was a fake wedding organised as a social media prank. The woman said she was invited to what she was told was a "white party" – where everyone is expected to wear white – by a man she had

An Islamic investment platform has had six of its adverts, which pictured burning money, banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Wahed Invest's posters, featured on Transport for London (TfL) services, showed US dollar and euro banknotes on fire, alongside images of Muslim preacher Isma

A large collection of memorabilia commemorating the leader of the Dambusters raid has been sold at auction.

In a bid to save money and make a stinging statement about the UK's housing crisis, a London-based artist has made a converted skip bin his home for the past two years.  In 2023, Harrison Marshall found himself in a rental rut. A yellow skip bin had been donated to him, and he decided to m

A 276kg bluefin tuna has been sold at a fish market auction in Tokyo for 207 million yen (£1.05m).

The first commemorative coins of 2025 feature the Red Arrows, the modern railway and Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.

Thieves in England stole around 20,000 litres of Guinness as pubs and shops struggled with a pre-Christmas shortage of Ireland's most famous export. A truck carrying 400 kegs, each filled with 50 litres of the stout, was stolen from a depot in Northamptonshire in mid-December, according to The Guard