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A leather helmet worn by Amelia Earhart has sold at auction for $825,000. The helmet was worn by Earhart during a trans-Atlantic flight in 1928, during which she became the first woman on board a plane crossing the Atlantic.

The hourly tolling of two church bells has enraged a woman who is suing her council to have the practice stopped.

A student has been caught with a Bluetooth device surgically implanted in his ear to enable him to cheat in a medical exam. The Indian man used the device during his last attempt at passing a test. It was linked to a phone in a hidden pocket of his trousers.

Two pairs of Sir Michael Caine's glasses are set to go up for sale at an auction next week. The actor is selling items from his personal collection, including artwork, furniture film posters and jewellery.

A Banksy artwork is expected to sell for up to £300,000 at an auction in Los Angeles.

A single snowdrop bulb has been sold for £1,850 in an eBay auction.

A bank customer has received a warning after marking payments with references like "Taliban training" and "jihad fee".

More than 250 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) worth nearly £1.3 million have reportedly been stolen from trading platform OpenSea.

A nearly 140-year-old copy of writings by Friedrich Engels, the lifetime brother-in-arms of Karl Marx, has been returned to a library decades after it went missing.

A police officer rapped by a judge for drinking a can of Coca-Cola while appearing in court by video link has been ordered to distribute 100 cans to local lawyers. The officer, who was giving evidence to Gujarat High Court in western India, was spotted sipping from the can at the start of the hearin

A courthouse dramatically went into lockdown after suspicious packages on its doorstep were reported to police – which turned out to be from Taco Bell.

Hundreds of people have volunteered to be locked up in a brand-new prison as part of a test run for the facility.

The greatest hits of Barry Manilow have been weaponised against protesters by authorities in New Zealand. Anti-vaxxers have set up camp outside the country's parliament, which has started playing music on a loop through its speakers in a bid to disperse them.

A right-wing US politician with a penchant for conspiracy theories has been widely mocked after appearing to confuse the Nazi Gestapo with "gazpacho" – a chilled Mexican soup.

A security guard has been sacked after defacing a valuable Russian painting by drawing eyes on its blank-faced figures with a ballpoint pen. The guard took a pen to Anna Leporskaya's avant-garde painting Three Figures on his first day working at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in the city of Y