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A San Francisco-based shoe brand has announced a dramatic pivot away from footwear into artificial intelligence, sending its shares surging by more than 580% in a single day. Allbirds, which was once favoured by the likes of Barack Obama and Ben Affleck, has struck a $50 million (c. £37m) deal

Uganda's chief of defence forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of President Yoweri Museveni, has issued a striking ultimatum to Turkey via social media, demanding $1 billion and "the most beautiful woman in that country" as his wife. The posts, published on X on 11 April 2026, gave Ankara a 30-d

A gold pocket watch belonging to one of the unsung heroes of the Titanic disaster is expected to fetch up to £100,000 when it goes under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers later this month. The timepiece was awarded to John Richardson, a Scottish-born engineer aboard the RMS Carpathia – t

Walker's Shortbread made a memorable return to New York City's annual Tartan Week celebrations on Saturday, 11th April, unveiling a show-stopping Scottie dog sculpture crafted entirely from shortbread at the heart of the festivities. The giant Scottie dog, masterfully created by UK food artist Prude

A man has ended a years-long legal battle seeking the return of his 12-foot-long pet alligator. Tony Cavallaro sued the state of New York after his beloved Albert was seized by local officials in March 2024, WIVB News 4 reports.

A man has been fined after "startling" Thailand's beloved pygmy hippo, Moo Deng, by entering her zoo enclosure. The man, who has not been named, was convicted of trespassing and fined 10,000 baht (c. £233), the BBC reports.

A rare 200-year-old flute closely linked to Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, will be played in the United States for the first time this week as part of an urgent campaign to save the farm where Auld Lang Syne was written.

Swiss cheesemakers have praised a court ruling which has saved the iconic holes in Emmental. Traditionally, the holes in Emmental have been caused by hay particles inadvertently introduced to the milk when cows are milked by hand in the barns where they live and eat.

A collection of custom-painted skateboard decks is to be auctioned in aid of a new skate park on the Isle of Wight, as Freshwater Parish Council pushes to replace an ageing facility that has served the community for over two decades. The existing park, built in 2002 from wooden ramps, has reached th

An iconic clip of a man's arrest in Australia after eating "a succulent Chinese meal" is to be preserved in Australia's National Film and Sound Archive. The incredible and memorable monologue unleashed by Jack Karlson during his arrest in Brisbane in 1991 was captured by a TV news crew from the Seve

A Tesco supermarket in Kirkwall, Orkney, has been giving away thousands of bananas after an ordering error resulted in a delivery of 38,000 pieces of fruit – 380 boxes of approximately 100 bananas each. A spokesperson for the supermarket said that colleagues had been inviting local schools and

A tin of beef dripping carried on the legendary 1953 Mount Everest expedition has sold at auction for £500. The can of Colonial Beef Dripping accompanied Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the historic journey that saw them become the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of th

A judge has shown little patience with a woman who joined an online court hearing while driving a car and then unsuccessfully tried to convince the judge she wasn't. Kimberly Carroll joined the Detroit court hearing via Zoom late and with her camera switched off, according to FOX 2.

The composer of the iconic opening song to Disney's The Lion King is suing a comedian for $27 million (c. £20.2m) for prodding fun at its lyrics. Circle of Life begins with the Zulu-language lyrics: "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama."

A woman who slapped googly eyes on a divisive sculpture has been convicted of marking graffiti and ordered to pay compensation. Amelia Vanderhorst, 20, filmed herself making the humorous additions to the Cast in Blue sculpture in the southern Australian city of Mount Gambier while high on MDMA and d