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Young people should get free Netflix if they surrender illegal knives, the head of Germany's police union has suggested. Jochen Kopelke, federal chair of the Union for Police (GdP), called for a knife amnesty in the wake of a high-profile attack in Stuttgart.

A man suffered age discrimination when an older colleague broke wind on him, a tribunal has ruled.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing tens of thousands of limited edition coins commemorating beloved cartoon dog Bluey. The Australian Mint produced the limited edition coins with a face value of one Australian dollar each – but before they could go into circulation, 63,000 of the

A hurricane brought cocaine worth more than $1 million to land yesterday. Hurricane Debby reached Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, though was downgraded to a tropical storm as it made its way across the south-eastern US.

The largest Scottish river pearl found in living history is expected to net up to £60,000 at auction this month. The Abernethy Pearl, found in 1967 by Scotland’s last pearl fisherman, William (Bill) Abernethy, will be auctioned by Lyon & Turnbull on Wednesday 21 August.

A famous Scottish pearl is set to be sold at auction for up to £60,000.

A report from the France's top audit court, Cour des Comptes, has highlighted high spending concerns after the French President's office incurred expenses of almost €475,000 (c. £400,000) for a state dinner hosted in honour of King Charles. The opulent banquet, held in September at t

The famous gold bikini worn by the late Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars has sold at auction for $175,000 (£136,000).

A six-acre island off the Devon coast complete with private beach, fortifications, planning permission for a luxury hotel, and reportedly 15 ghosts, has been put up for sale. Drake's Island, just 600 yards from Plymouth, was used as a military defence for hundreds of years – with 18th-century

Germany has objected to Turkish efforts to impose rules across the EU on what can and can't be called a doner kebab. Turkey is trying to secure 'traditional speciality guaranteed' status for doner, strictly defining it as beef and lamb horizontally sliced into cutlets with a thickness of 3-5mm, or c

'Intimate' letters and cards written by Princess Diana are to be sold at auction.

The company behind plans drawn up by Silicon Valley billionaires for an $800 million (c. £620m) utopia in central California have been forced to put the project on hold after the release of a report highlighting huge potential costs to taxpayers. California Forever had promised

A pair of John Lennon's glasses are to be sold at auction at the end of this month.

Fake olive oil worth almost $1 million (c. £767,000) has been seized from an alleged criminal gang in Italy. Italian police arrested seven people and raided more than a dozen garages and warehouses in the major overnight operation last week, CNN reports.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million (c. £21m) San Francisco mansion is reportedly riddled with problems, according to a lawsuit filed by Altman's legal team. The luxury abode located in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood, was said to once be the most expensive listing in San Francisco,