BrewDog Distilling Co’s first ever whisky cask sale has broken a new record to become Whisky hammer's best performing whisky cask auction to date.
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A cryptocurrency firm in the Netherlands has announced a new partnership with a producer of tulips. The novel partnership has raised eyebrows, given the association of both tulips and some cryptocurrencies with speculative bubbles - but Bitcoin Brabant and local farmers are calling it a "win-win".
A cash machine which displays its users cash balances on a leaderboard has stolen the show at this year's Art Basel Miami. The ATM with a twist posts a picture of its users alongside their bank balance and ranks them according to their total balance. A user with an account balance of $9.5 million (&
A pair of identical twins accused of cheating in a university exam have won a €1.5 million defamation payout after arguing their genetic similarity played a decisive role in their similar answers. Kayla and Kellie Bingham were accused of "academic dishonesty" in 2016 following an eight-hour exa
A family of four were charged more than £80,000 in error after EDF sent a £1 million electricity bill. Richard Baron from Kent thought the bill was "quite amusing" at first until the energy provider proceeded with the first direct debit payment, leaving the family more than £7
A one-year-old puppy has managed to make multiple online purchases in the video game Watch Dogs with its owner’s credit card.
A worker who was unfairly dismissed for refusing to join his colleagues in the pub after work has won a case against his erstwhile employer. Mr T, not to be confused with he of A-Team fame, was a senior advisor at a firm in Paris.
A trove of Celtic gold coins with an estimated worth of €1.6m (£1.4m) have been stolen from a museum in Germany. The thieves stole the coins numbering in the hundreds from the museum in Manching, Bavaria, during a nine-minute nighttime heist.
A mac and cheese manufacturer is being sued for $5 million over claims its "ready in three-and-a-half minutes" label is slightly inaccurate. A new lawsuit alleges that the time advertised on Velveeta's microwaveable mac and cheese doesn't account for the time needed to open the packaging or stir the
South Africa's president has claimed that he hid at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in his sofa because it seemed "the safest place" to store it.
A 19th-century jail in southern France is to become a luxury hotel after being sold under a programme to modernise the country’s prisons.
A student has been left stunned after receiving two boxes of Weetabix instead of the MacBook laptop he ordered from Amazon.
A tribunal has ruled that a group of employees are due nearly CA$500,000 (£308,000) in wages after their employer paid out 50% of their salaries with company gift cards. The Canadian Employment Standards Tribunal (EST) dismissed an application from the Vancouver-based Dayton Boots Company appe
An ancient gold coin wrongly classified as a fake by specialists has proven the existence of a third century Roman emperor who was written out of history as a fictional character.
Mercedes-Benz has begun offering an "acceleration increase" option for $1,200 (£990) per year for some of its electric vehicles. Limited to Mercedes-EQ EQE and EQS all-electric models, owners would have their vehicles' speed unlocked via an over-the-air update allowing them to accelerate