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Andy Warhol’s famous Shot Sage Blue Marilyn painting has been sold at an auction for $195m (£158m). The sale has made it the most expensive work by an American artist sold at auction.

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Auction house Christie's is set to auction a Deinonychus dinosaur skeleton in New York this week. The Deinonychus antirrhopus skeleton is estimated to sell for between $4 million and $6 million, Artnet News reports.

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Satanists have demanded that their flag be raised over Boston city headquarters following a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The court this week ruled that the city violated the rights of a Christian group after snubbing its formal request for their flag to be flown outside

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A police department has said it is "embarrassed" after a volunteer officer was caught using police vehicles to sell drugs. Sheriff Grady Judd, head of the police department in Polk County, Florida, said the incident "makes me so crazy I want to pluck my eyeballs out one at a time", FOX 13 reports.

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Canadians will no longer be allowed to commit crimes on the surface of the moon under a legislative change slipped into the country's latest budget bill. The move comes in anticipation of Canada's involvement in the Lunar Gateway project to create the first-ever space station in lunar orbit.

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A recent drug bust saw a sheriff arrest his own daughter for alleged possession of methamphetamine. “Methamphetamine does not discriminate and neither do we,” said Florida's Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith in a Facebook post.

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A prosecutor has apologised after controversially proposing an annual hunting season for feral cats. Bill Hayes, a county prosecutor in Ohio, made the comments as part of his campaign to be elected as county commissioner, a prominent post in local government."

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A woman has married her cat in a bizarre bid to prevent landlords from evicting her furry friend and to enjoy her lease under the same conditions. Deborah Hodge, a 49-year-old mother from London, organised a wedding ceremony overseen by an ordained friend to show her bond with cat India, Yahoo Life

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A couple whose "golf-course-view" home was repeatedly struck by golf balls has won nearly £4 million after a court ruled the neighbouring country club should have done more to protect them. As many as 651 golf balls struck the property of Erik and Athina Tenczar, who live next to the 15th hole

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A bride and caterer who allegedly fed a cannabis-laced dinner to her unsuspecting wedding guests have been arrested. Florida woman Danya Svoboda's wedding reception ended with her speaking to police officers after a number of guests reported feeling sick and high, CBS News reports.

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The family of Sean Connery has listed his £15 million Picasso painting for sale at an auction to help raise funds for Scottish charities. Sean Connery's family are Buste d’homme dans un cadre after he requested a philanthropic trust be set up in his name after his death.

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A rare “forgotten” cask of Macallan 1988, bought for just £5,000, is expected to set a world record price as it opens for bids on specialist whisky auction site, Whisky Hammer. Originally filled on 5th May 1988, the 374 litre refill butt has been held in bond at The Macallan Distil

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Modern flapjacks are sweets and not cakes, the UK's tax tribunal has ruled – with enormous tax implications for manufacturers. In a case with echoes of the famous dispute over whether Jaffa Cakes are cakes or biscuits, the First-Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) said flapjacks made by Glanbia are to

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A traveller was forced to part with his cane at airport security after officials discovered a blade inside it – which the man said he didn't know was there.

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