And Finally

Renowned Colombian pop artist Shakira has consented to a €7.3m (around £6.4m) fine with Spanish prosecutors to settle tax evasion charges, circumventing a court trial in Barcelona. The fine is half of the €14.5m (around £12.7m) purportedly owed in taxes during 2012-2014, a

A rare bottle of Macallan whisky has sold for £2.2 million making it the highest-priced whisky to ever be sold at auction.

The federal government of Canada has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants from KPMG for advice on cost-cutting – specifically, on how to reduce spending on consultancy. This irony is steeped in the recent documents tabled in Canada's Parliament, detailing a hefty sum of $669,6

A vintage Ferrari has been sold at auction for £42 million. 

A lawyer who quit her job to become a full-time animal psychic has said she is now happier and earning more money. Nikki Vasconez charges $550 (around £441) for an "animal communication session" in which she purports to speak with any animal, living or dead, for up to 90 minutes.

A confectionery company has lost its entire $110,000 (around £89,000) shipment of exotic Japanese KitKats, becoming the latest victim of a sophisticated 'strategic theft' scam.

The leather jacket that Michael Jackson wore in a 1980s Pepsi advert has sold for £250,000 at an auction.

A group of police officers who allegedly accepted a large bribe in lieu of seizing cannabis and cash from a suspected drug dealer have been arrested after he subsequently reported them. The five junior officers and one senior officer from a Trinidad and Tobago police department were detained for que

A Picasso painting has been sold at auction for $139.4 million (around £113.7m). The painting which featured his young mistress was sold last night at Sotheby's in New York.

In an unorthodox move for a bank, challenger firm Starling bank has created a new tool to assist couples in managing fair distribution of household chores and hopefully reduce quarrelling. The bank's 'Share the Load' app tracks the division of unpaid labour so couples can easily see where things sta

Four men have been charged in connection with the theft of a solid gold toilet worth £5 million more than four years ago. The fully-functioning 18-carat toilet, named America, was stolen from Blenheim Palace in England days after it was installed as an art piece.

A menu from the Titanic is set to go up for auction and is expected to sell for £50,000-£70,000.

A mountain of Lego found in a suburban drug raid is so large that Australian police are going to need a truck to seize it.

HSBC has become the first bank to offer tokenised gold to customers. The bank has revealed a platofrm that utilises distributed ledger technology to tokenise the ownership of institutional clients’ physical gold held in the bank’s London vault.

A fashion worker is suing Stella McCartney’s label for £100,000 after she allegedly suffered a severe ankle injury during a photoshoot. Chloe Mickelborough, 31, claims the incident took place at McCartney’s Milan base in 2018, resulting in a broken heel and long-term pain. Mickelbo