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The Paris Mint has announced that it will soon begin selling solid-gold investment coins, marking its first such issue since it stopped producing the famous Napoleon and Louis coins over a century ago. Four versions of the new Marianne coins will go on sale on 16 June, ranging from one-tenth of an o

Bank of Scotland has unveiled a highly exclusive, limited-edition £20 banknote to celebrate the national football team’s qualification for a major international tournament. Just 100 of the collector-style notes have been printed. The design integrates traditional Scottish currency elemen

Samsung Electronics has narrowly averted a strike by striking a last-minute deal with its South Korean workers’ union, agreeing to distribute a massive 40 trillion won (c. £20 billion) in bonuses to its semiconductor workforce. Driven by an artificial intelligence infrastructure boom tha

The chief executive of a US firm has defended his decision to eliminate the company’s HR department, arguing the team had been “creating problems that didn’t exist”. Ryan Breslow, co-founder and chief executive of Bolt, made the comments after the company cut around 30% of it

The Lord of the Rings fans will soon be able to own one coin to rule them all as The Royal Mint has launched of its first collectable The Lord of the Rings 50p coin. The coin marks the 25th anniversary of Peter Jackson's Academy Award-winning film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. M

A detectorist who has been finding artefacts for two decades has made over £13,000 at auction after selling her finds. 

A spectacular blue-green diamond known as the "Ocean Dream" has shattered records at Christie's in Geneva, selling for 13.6 million Swiss francs (c. £13m) and setting a new world auction benchmark for diamonds of its colour. Weighing 5.5 carats and cut into a striking triangular shape, the gem

A French academic is under investigation after allegedly inventing a philology prize and awarding it to himself. Florent Montaclair, who taught without incident for 20 years at a university in Besançon, eastern France, received the so-called Gold Medal of Philology at a 2016 ceremony at the N

Pope Leo XIV has encountered trouble contacting his bank, as the customer service line hung up on him.

A former Woolworths employee has been criticised by Australia’s Fair Work Commission after lodging a compensation claim over being told to cover up his exposed “bum crack” during a shift. In a ruling, deputy president Alan Colman dismissed the Victorian man’s application, fin

A 126-year-old Cadbury chocolate bar issued during the Second Boer War is estimated to sell for hundreds of pounds at auction.

Nearly 590,000 Americans who paid deposits of £74 for Donald Trump's gold-plated T1 smartphone have been faced with the reality that their money, totalling roughly £43.7 million, is gone, and the device may never exist. Unveiled by Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump at Trump Tower in June 20

Three residents of a condominium complex in downtown Denver are suing a gym they claim has made their homes unliveable because of groaning weightlifters. The lawsuit, filed in Denver County District Court, accuses Summit Strong gym of allowing “unreasonably loud weightlifting-related noises&rd

Two metal detectorists hoping for a quiet start to the season instead stumbled upon the largest Viking Age coin hoard ever discovered in Norway, and the beeping still hasn't stopped. When Vegard Sørlie and Rune Sætre swept a field at Mørstad farm near Rena in eastern Norway, they

A treasure trove of personal items from the late Matthew Perry's estate is heading to auction next month, with proceeds benefiting the foundation established in the actor's name to support those struggling with addiction.