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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 ...

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 ...

Police were called to a Le Creuset warehouse in England after hundreds of unruly bargain-hunters descended on a rare sale. The two-day sale at the luxury cookware ...

A portrait of Alan Turing by Ai-Da, which is described as the "world's first ultra-realistic artist robot", has sold for over £800,000 at a Sotheby's auction in New ...

An American court has overturned a long-standing rule that engagement rings in failed relationships should go to the party who was wronged. Until now, judges in Massachusetts ...

Prosecutors who brought down the hammer on late taxpayers have complained that their own pay is now extremely late. The local prosecutor's office in St Louis County, ...

A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in hit film The Wizard of Oz are set to be sold at auction almost twenty years ...

An American cyclist is taking legal action after being struck and injured by an ambulance, which took him to hospital and then sent him a bill for ...

Shohei Ohtani's history-making 50th home run ball has sold at auction for a record-breaking $4.3 million (c. £3.4m). The ball, hit in September, marked the first time ...

A San Francisco company offering "sleeping pods" in a former bank for $700 (c. £530) a month has received over 300 applications for its remaining 17 beds, ...

A Russian court has slapped Google with a fine of around $20 decillion (c. £15.44 decillion) – thousands of times more than the entire world's GDP. The ...

One of the world's largest banks is suing customers who believed they had discovered an "infinite money glitch". Thousands of people may have taken advantage of the ...