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A lawyer who defrauded clients of almost £2 million after falling for a lottery scam has been jailed for four years. Scammers convinced Norwich solicitor Hugh Lansdell, 74, that he had won a postcode lottery in Spain but needed to hand over increasing amounts of cash to access his winnings.

A New Zealand couple have received a $1,410 (around £1,150) refund after spending a 13-hour flight seated next to a farting dog. Gill and Warren Press faced the unanticipated inconvenience on their premium economy flight from Paris to Singapore.

NatWest has remedied an IT glitch that led thousands of customers to believe they were missing funds. The issue was first identified on Thursday when the customers noticed discrepancies in their cash balances on the bank's ATMs. Many took to social media with their worries about potentially facing b

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being sued by his own lawyers over an alleged unpaid legal bill of $1.36 million (£1.1m). The disputed bill relates to services provided since 2019, including early representation in some of the notorious election rigging cases, NBC News reports.

An exceptionally well-preserved Camptosaurus dinosaur skeleton, named 'Barry', is set to captivate bidders at a Parisian auction next month with an estimated price of $1.28 million (around £1m). Discovered in Wyoming in the 1990s, the late Jurassic-era relic stands at 2.1 metres and stretches

A Danish artist has been ordered by a Copenhagen court to return 492,549 kroner (around £58,000) to the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg after he delivered two blank canvases. Originally, the museum commissioned artist Jens Haaning to embed banknotes into two pieces of art for a project titled "

The owner of a surfing python has been fined after breaching the strict conditions of his animal permit. Higor Fiuza was filmed longboarding with three-year-old carpet python Shiva off Australia's Gold Coast in footage which went viral on social media this month, ABC reports.

Skyrocketing cocaine exports are set to overtake oil as Colombia's main export, according to a new analysis. The country's oil exports dropped by nearly a third in the first half of the year while its cocaine exports are expected to outperform a record set in 2022, Bloomberg reports.

Bill Gates booked a Michelin-Star restaurant for two days straight to drink a Diet Coke and leave without eating any of the $313 meal.

In a deal that's breaking records and raising eyebrows, Apple has reportedly paid $5 million (£4m) for the rights to Michael Lewis's unpublished book, Going Infinite, centred around the infamous Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), founder of now-collapsed crypto exchange FTX. The figure is unprecede

BMW has reversed its controversial decision to charge customers an $18 monthly subscription fee for heated seats, a feature many drivers consider to be standard. The idea was to offer customers the option to activate this feature later, but the move backfired and has been scrapped before making it t

Turkish cryptocurrency entrepreneur Faruk Fatih Özer and his two siblings, Serap and Güven, have been sentenced to 11,196 years in prison each for a financial scandal involving millions of dollars. Mr Özer, who established the Thodex cryptocurrency exchange at the age of 22, gained no

In a tribute fit for a queen – quite literally – the East India Company, now a luxury lifestyle brand, has unveiled "The Crown Coin", a basketball-sized tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, worth a jaw-dropping £18.5 million. The coin was revealed to commemorate the first annive

Hyundai has launched an in-car payment service for its US drivers.

A hotel investigating the theft of 50 koi carp worth around £100,000 was surprised to identify an unexpected suspect: an otter. The Grosvenor Pulford Hotel, near Chester, installed CCTV cameras after the disappearance of the expensive fish, the BBC reports.