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Certain types of porridge, crumpets and breakfast cereals are included in a new list of products that fall under a new junk food advertising ban to come into force in the UK in October next year. 

Poundland is offering its first ever apartments for sale as it prepares to open a new store on Elgin's historic High Street.

A man in Oxfordshire has created the ultimate fantasy treehouse with a theme dedicated to writer C.S. Lewis. 

The Pope's surgeon has been charged with fraud in connection with allegedly fake records of operations he never performed. Sergio Alfieri, who successfully operated on Pope Francis twice, in 2021 and 2023, lied about performing surgeries 29 times, prosecutors claim.

A cryptocurrency tycoon has eaten a banana he bought for $6.2 million.

One of Banksy’s works, Well Hung Lover, is set to be auctioned alongside the Bristol building it adorns with a guide price of £700,000. The iconic mural, featuring a man clinging to a window ledge as a lover’s quarrel unfolds above, appeared in 2006 on the wall of what turned out t

Pop singer Katy Perry has won a 15-year-long trade mark dispute with a fashion designer called Katie Perry. The American pop star – whose real name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson – launched the legal action in 2009 after Australian woman Katie Jane Taylor, née Perry, registered "Kat

George Stubbs’s famous painting of a Spanish pointer dog is to be sold at auction for an estimated £2 million. 

A man has been convicted of a criminal offence after deliberately gaining weight to avoid compulsory military service. The 26-year-old was sentenced last week by a court in South Korea, where all able-bodied men are required to service in the military for at least 18 months.

A group of Scottish designers have brightened the wintry skies of Dundee in preparation for 'Colour Friday'!  

Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork which involves a banana duct-taped to a wall has been sold for $5.2 million (c. £4.2m) at auction.  

The Sardinian village of Ollolai, grappling with depopulation, has launched a website to entice disillusioned American voters with homes as cheap as €1 (£0.83) and a "fast-track procedure" for relocation. The website, Live in Ollolai, asks visitors if they are "worn out by global politics

A rare postcard written by a Titanic passenger who after the ship's fatal iceberg hit has sold for £20,000 at auction.

Argentina is to scrap a law requiring the president to become the godparent of any couple's seventh son or seventh daughter. The bizarre 1974 law made international headlines a decade ago when then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became godmother to a Jewish baby for the first time.

Infowars, the far-right media outlet built by disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has been acquired at auction by satirical news website The Onion. Jones – once close to Donald Trump – declared bankruptcy after he was ordered to pay $1.5 billion (c. £1.2bn) to families of vic