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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

The Google employee who was fired for claiming that the company's AI had become sentient has now said it has hired a lawyer. Blake Lemoine was suspended after telling the media that the tech giant's new AI, LaMDA, had achieved a breakthrough in consciousness.

A new tax on table football has sparked an outcry from beach café owners in Italy.

A collection of Elvis memorabilia worth up to £275,000 is going up for auction this weekend. The auction coincides with the release of the new blockbuster film about the icon.

Hundreds of kilograms of cocaine have been turned over to police by baffled supermarket workers after being discovered in shipments of bananas from Colombia. The drugs – totalling around 998 kilograms, worth nearly £70 million – were mistakenly delivered to a number of Czech superm

A couple who took their neighbour to court over a "very minor” trespass which they refused to settle for £13,000 must now pay a £130,000 legal bill. Liz and Adam Peck refused the offer of a settlement from Debbie Ranford, a City banker, in a dispute relating to their home in Dulwic

A Scottish chippy has launched started offering a fish supper that costs £80 and is covered in 24 karat edible gold.