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Chinese property developers are accepting garlic, watermelons, wheat and barley as down payments on new apartments.

A distillery in New Hampshire is fighting back against invasive crabs by turning them into whiskey.

BMW has introduced a subscription service for customers in Korea where drivers can pay a monthly fee for physical options such as heated seats and a heated steering wheel.

Russian gamblers were duped into betting on a fake tournament advertised as the real Indian Premier League in an elaborate scam broken up by police.

Aquarium employees have been facing difficulties dealing with picky penguins refusing to eat cheaper fish.

A one-off new recording of Bob Dylan's Blowin' In The Wind has sold at auction for £1.5 million. The release is the first new studio recording of the song since the singer wrote it in 1962, The Daily Mail reports.

A couple has been fined $1,542 (£1,285) and further threatened with a fee of $250 (£208) per day for parking in their own driveway.

A farmer was ordered to demolish a castle he spent two years and £1 million to build.

A vampire-slaying kit has been sold at auction for £13,000. The kit, which was once owned by a British aristocrat, caused an international bidding war before selling for six times its estimated price, according to Hansons Auctioneers.

A man has fled after receiving 330 times his normal monthly salary due to a payroll error. The employee of Chilean food producer Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos received a paycheck of 165,398,851 Chilean pesos (£146,000) for the month of May, Fox News reports - in excess of 300 times hi

A homing pigeon, worth more than £1,000 has turned up in Alabama after getting lost on his return to Tyneside.

Members of Hong Kong's elite are set to descent on Tokyo in August, taking advantage of the historic weakness of the yen, to buy property at bargain prices.

Hairdressers and barbers in the Italian town of Castenaso have been banned from double-washing hair to save water as the area faces the worst drought in decades.

Known for its obsession over aesthetically appealing fruit and shocking auction prices, a new record has been set in Japan with the sale of a box of perfect cherries for £3,600.

Knockderry Castle, which has been at the centre of a 25-year legal battle over a £230 debt, has finally been put on the market for more than £1.25 million. The A-listed castle, located on the west coast of Scotland was previously owned by 72-year-old Marian van Overwaele, who was made ba