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Mart Veldhuis, an artist burdened by student debt of €46,000 (£40,000), has creatively channelled his financial struggles into a lucrative piece of art and sold it for exactly the sum he owed – €45,879.40 (£39,832.79).

The power of AI to disrupt and cause chaos was witnessed on Monday this week when a realistic AI-generated image of an explosion at the U.S. Pentagon circulated on Twitter.

Beijing's metro commuters have begun using a new palm print payment system, possibly making them the first to do so worldwide. This new technology was deployed on Sunday on the Daxing airport metro line by Chinese tech giant, Tencent. To operate the system, passengers register their unique palm prin

A smashed guitar which belonged to Kurt Cobain has sold for almost £500,000 at auction.

A woman who tried to board a plane wearing six kilograms of clothing to avoid a baggage fee has been fined.

A man has been charged with stealing Judy Garland's famous ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. The iconic pair of slippers — one of four remaining pairs from the 1939 film production — were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005 and recovered by the FBI in 2018.

The Codex Sassoon, an approximately 1,100-year-old manuscript considered to be the oldest and most complete version of the Hebrew Bible, has been auctioned off at Sotheby's New York for an impressive $38.1 million (£30.6m), making it the highest-value manuscript ever sold at auction.

Bowmore Single Malt Whisky and Aston Martin are partnering for an exclusive auction this spring, offering a unique decanter containing a special assemblage of the 52-year-old vintage whisky. The decanter has been created as a totally unique "objet d’art" which will never again be repeated

An Australian family have refused to sell their property despite being offered $50 million (roughly £25m) by developers.

An armed robber allegedly confused staff at a Subway sandwich shop by demanding they hand over "all the bread". Chicago man Abail Bekele, 20, is accused of robbing two Subway restaurants while on bail for another robbery, CWBChicago reports.

A hotel Portland, Oregon is offering a $10,000 (£8,000) overnight package catering to dog owners and their pets. The Nines Hotel's package includes a stay in the presidential suite, complete with monogrammed dog bed and robe, a four-course chef-curated meal for both owner and pet, and a p

The Miami Grand Prix recently attracted attention for more than just Formula One racing — it also featured exorbitantly priced food items, leaving attendees shocked.

The Dutch government has invested €200 million (£173.6m) into quickly building more than 2,000 prefabricated, flexible homes but it can't find anywhere to place them. The temporary homes are ready, but agreements with municipalities and housing corporations are taking longer than exp

The Italian government is facing calls to crack down on "questionable mozzarella" made abroad and marketed as Italian. A product purporting to be sliced mozzarella, produced in Austria by a Chinese-headquarted company but featuring the Leaning Tower of Pisa on its packaging, has been reported to min

Twenty-six years since the doors slammed shut on one of Australia’s most notorious prisons, the shackles of the past have been thrown off and HM Prison Pentridge has reopened as a billion-dollar dining and entertainment precinct just 8km from the Melbourne CBD. The redevelopment of the 170-yea