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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

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Japanese crime syndicates have reportedly begun using Pokémon trading cards to launder vast amounts of money. The former head of a crime syndicate told Japanese magazine Shunkan Gendai that his organisation used the cards to transport stolen money abroad, according to a translation published

The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments is to be auctioned in New York today. The 1,500-year-old tablet, being auctioned by Sotheby's, is expected to net between $1 million and $2 million in a single-lot sale this afternoon.

A rare spherical egg that a man spontaneously bought after a few pints has sold at auction for £200.

Turkey's Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (Bankacılık Düzenleme ve Denetleme Kurumu – BDDK) has introduced a new regulation prohibiting the use of certain PINs, particularly the founding dates of football clubs, due to security concerns. This measure aims to prevent credit and

A rare Roman coin depicting Brutus, Julius Caesar's assassin, has been sold at auction in Geneva for €1.98 million (c. £1.64m).