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Google owner Alphabet has sacked its robot cleaners as part of a cost-cutting exercise. More than 100 robots developed by the tech giant's Everyday Robotics department were helping to clean cafeterias and conference rooms in its San Francisco headquarters.

A rare book on chess which was stolen from a school library nearly 70 years ago has been anonymously returned with £50 and an apology. The fourth edition copy of Rev E E Cunnington's The Modern Chess Primer was recently returned to Elgin Academy in the north of Scotland, The Herald reports.

A portrait by Lucian Freud is expected to sell for up to £20 million at auction.

A man dubbed "the Easter bunny" has admitted stealing almost 200,000 Creme Eggs worth over £31,000.

Giant wicker corgis that cost Norfolk's Broadland District Council £3,000 each were sold off at a significant loss.

A $42,000 (£35k) sculpture by US pop artist Jeff Koons was accidentally knocked to the ground and smashed into tiny shards by an art collector at the exclusive VIP-only opening night of Art Wynwood, a contemporary art fair in Miami. The sculpture was one of Mr Koons' iconic 'Dog Balloons' and

A lawsuit worth over $10 million (£8.3m) has been brought against a lawyer for allegedly using company funds for her personal use, citing breach of written contracts, fraud, and civil theft. The plaintiff, LDR International Limited, alleges that Sara Jacqueline King, a lawyer working for a len

The Royal Mint has added a coin featuring Professor Albus Dumbledore to its Harry Potter themed collection.

A chocolate factory has been fined after workers fell into a vat of chocolate and became trapped in it.

The iconic white briefs worn by Bryan Cranston's Breaking Bad character Walter White are expected to sell for $5,000 at auction.

Sotheby's has announced that Picasso’s "joyful and tender" portrait of his daughter Maya will go to auction with an estimate of $15-20 million (£12.4-£16.6m). The painting, formerly owned by Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace, reemerges onto the market for the first time

Your awful ex can now 'almost literally' be full of rubbish, by having a bin truck named in their honour with the help of a UK waste company.

PwC’s annual pantomime will head to Glasgow later this week for its 36th production, ‘Babes in the Wood’. The show, which will be hosted at The Theatre Royal for three nights, comes to the city following a successful week-long run in London’s West End.

A Glasgow scaffolding & building contractor has swapped hard hats for bottle caps by launching an ultra-premium vodka and flavoured vodka brand. Blur 69 was already snapped up by MTV as the official MTV Europe Music Awards Green Room sponsor in Düsseldorf in November last year.

A portrait of Margaret Thatcher which was saved from a London tip is to be sold at auction.