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A Dutch municipality has admitted it "most likely" threw out 46 artworks — including an Andy Warhol print of Queen Beatrix — during renovation works last year.

A man who paid £20,000 for a replacement car discovered he had inadvertently repurchased his own stolen vehicle. Ewan Valentine, 36, from Solihull, had his black Honda Civic Type-R stolen from his drive in February.

The demolition of a building known as "Britain's biggest man cave" has cost around £220,000 in taxpayers' money. 

A Japanese music producer's dream of owning a Ferrari turned into a nightmare when his newly acquired 458 Spider burst into flames just hours after he took delivery.

A bus driver with 29 years of service has lost a retirement package worth £63,800 because he stole £5 in passenger fares. The man was sacked by Kyoto City in Japan after he was caught stealing the paltry sum of ¥1,000 in 2022.

A distinctive Arts and Crafts bracelet by renowned Scottish jeweller Sibyl Dunlop (1889–1968) has sold for more than triple its £8,000 estimate at auction.

A pet shop owner has condemned a couple caught on CCTV stealing birds by shoving them down their trousers. The couple entered Paradise Pets in Swindon last week and allegedly stole four canary birds.

A UK government minister's verified X account was recently hacked to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency dubbed "$HCC" or the "House of Commons" coin. Several posts, featuring the House of Commons logo and describing the scam coin as a "community-driven digital currency", appeared on the Leader of t

A Scottish boarding school has become the first in the UK to accept bitcoin as a form of school fee payment.

An accountant has lost a £700,000 court claim against developers after refusing to complete the purchase of a £1.5 million flat in south London's Aykon London One tower, nicknamed the 'Versace Tower' for its fashion house-designed interiors. Mi Suk Park, 54, paid a £381,000 deposit

Speedy Gonzalez has been caught with an enormous haul of stolen supermarket goods, police say. A local police department in the US state of Georgia went viral after announcing the arrest and charging of a 40-year-old man seemingly named for the world-famous cartoon character.

A remarkable Paraíba-type tourmaline, weighing 181.61 carats and named the "Kat Florence Lumina", is set to be auctioned at Bonhams Hong Kong on 22 May.

A Belgian royal with an allowance of nearly €400,000 per year has failed in a legal bid to be recognised as a self-employed worker entitled to social security. Prince Laurent, brother of the Belgian king, asked the Brussels Labour Court to recognise him as self-employed and his princely endowme

A low wall, just two bricks high, has become the focal point of a dispute between a property developer and a landowner. Lioncourt Homes, which is building 70 homes at the Priory Meadows site in Hempsted, near Gloucester, plans to remove the wall to create an emergency access route. However, Roger Wh

Buskers who poorly perform the same songs again and again are effectively carrying out "psychological torture" and must be stopped, a judge has said. The City of London Magistrates' Court this week ordered Westminster Council to take stronger action against buskers in Leicester Square, the BBC repor