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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,

A dinosaur's skeleton has been sold for $44.6 million (£34m) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City.

An art gallery which became embroiled in a discrimination row over a women-only exhibition space has admitted the supposed Picasso paintings displayed there were fake all along. A court ruled earlier this year that Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) could not lawfully bar men from its Ladie

A thirteen year old girl in China has spent around 449,500 yuan (£65,742) of her parent's savings on mobile games. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the girl found a debit card in her home and linked it to her smartphone to pay for the games.

A town in Sweden is giving southern European property a run for its money, as it offers plots of land for less than a cup of coffee. Götene, 200 miles southwest of Stockholm, is offering 29 plots of land for as little as 1 krona – equivalent to around 7 pence – per square metre

A Japanese man has sparked outrage after allegedly withdrawing ¥40 million (£220,000) from his 82-year-old grandmother's bank account to fund his mobile gacha game addiction. The man's younger brother took to social media to seek advice, revealing on X that the family had attempted to reso

A rare vinyl record by the Sex Pistols has sold for a record-breaking price at auction.

A prison in Brazil has swapped guard dogs for geese – which authorities say are cheaper and more effective. The São Pedro de Alcântara Penitentiary in Brazil's southern state of Santa Catarina recruited the nine "geese agents" late last year.

A Chicago homeowner was left reeling after a clerical error resulted in his property tax bill increasing sixteen-fold from $1,800 (£1,405) to more than $30,000 (£23,430).

Police were called to a German pub after a foreign customer inadvertently violated local custom by making 16 separate card transactions over the course of an evening. The 21-year-old Latvian customer ordered and drank 16 beers, paying for each one by card payment – which is not standard practi