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Google has been fined by a Russian court for hosting YouTube videos which instruct Russian soldiers in Ukraine on how to surrender. The fine of 3.8 million rubles (around €40,000 or £33,000) was imposed by Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday, according to Russia's state-owned TASS

Mexico will sue Google if it continues to label the entire Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", the country's president has warned. One of Donald Trump's first acts on his return to the White House was to sign an executive order purporting to rename the body of water.

Argentinian president Javier Milei is facing calls for his impeachment after allegedly promoting a cryptocurrency "scam". In a post to Elon Musk's X platform on Friday night, Mr Milei appeared to back the $LIBRA cryptocurrency coin, which he said was "dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argen

A Welsh computer engineer is considering buying an entire landfill site after a decade-long battle with local officials to search for a hard drive containing an estimated £620 million in lost Bitcoin. James Howells, 39, says his ex-partner mistakenly discarded the drive, containing his Bitcoin

Over 5,000 artists have called for Christie's auction house to cancel its first-ever AI art auction, labelling it "mass theft" of human artists' work.

A couple who bought a £32.5 million mansion can hand it back and have most of their money returned after they found out it had a "severe moth infestation", a High Court judge has ruled. Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak successfully sued William Woodward-Fisher, the vendor of their proper

Nearly a quarter of a million Danes have backed a call for Denmark to purchase California from the US. The joke online petition is a response to Donald Trump's repeated – and rebuffed – demands to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

President Donald Trump has instructed the US Treasury Secretary to cease production of one-cent coins.

A colony of beavers has saved Czech authorities nearly £1 million on a long-awaited construction project. The beavers jumped the gun on a seven-year-long dispute by constructing a series of dams exactly where local authorities wanted to build them.

Two historic Delftware plates owned by a family in Devon have been sold at auction for over £20,000. 

A construction worker has claimed the first $100,000 top prize in a new scratch-off game from the Maryland Lottery. Roberto Fuentes Valdivia bought five $10 MONOPOLY X50 tickets while stopping for coffee in Mt. Rainier and won big on the final ticket he scratched.

A never-seen-before artwork is set to go up for auction with a valuation of £30,000 to £50,000.

A Chinese woman from Guang'an, in Sichuan province, received a memorable marriage proposal when her boyfriend hid a gold ring inside a cake. Unaware of his plan, the hungry woman devoured the taro and meat floss cake, only to bite down on the hidden ring. Initially mistaking it for a bakery mishap,

Supermarket chain Aldi is piloting a new £10 pre-payment system at its checkout-free Shop & Go store in Greenwich, London.

A Star Wars auction held in the Thornaby has raised £156,000 in sales.