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A letter written by Colonel Archibald Gracie, a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic, has sold for a record-breaking $399,000 (c. £315,000) at auction in Devizes. Penned just days before the ship's fatal encounter with an iceberg in April 1912, the letter contains the eerily prescient sent

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