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Over 5,000 artists have called for Christie's auction house to cancel its first-ever AI art auction, labelling it "mass theft" of human artists' work.

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A couple who bought a £32.5 million mansion can hand it back and have most of their money returned after they found out it had a "severe moth infestation", a High Court judge has ruled. Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak successfully sued William Woodward-Fisher, the vendor of their proper

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Nearly a quarter of a million Danes have backed a call for Denmark to purchase California from the US. The joke online petition is a response to Donald Trump's repeated – and rebuffed – demands to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

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President Donald Trump has instructed the US Treasury Secretary to cease production of one-cent coins.

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A colony of beavers has saved Czech authorities nearly £1 million on a long-awaited construction project. The beavers jumped the gun on a seven-year-long dispute by constructing a series of dams exactly where local authorities wanted to build them.

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A construction worker has claimed the first $100,000 top prize in a new scratch-off game from the Maryland Lottery. Roberto Fuentes Valdivia bought five $10 MONOPOLY X50 tickets while stopping for coffee in Mt. Rainier and won big on the final ticket he scratched.

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A Chinese woman from Guang'an, in Sichuan province, received a memorable marriage proposal when her boyfriend hid a gold ring inside a cake. Unaware of his plan, the hungry woman devoured the taro and meat floss cake, only to bite down on the hidden ring. Initially mistaking it for a bakery mishap,

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Supermarket chain Aldi is piloting a new £10 pre-payment system at its checkout-free Shop & Go store in Greenwich, London.

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A Mercedes W196 R Stromlinienwagen, driven by Formula One legends Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio, is expected to become the most expensive Grand Prix car ever sold when it goes under the hammer in Stuttgart on Saturday. The "Streamline car," one of only four complete examples in existence, is

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One of the world's best-selling singers has been accused of making a 10-bedroom mansion impossible to sell by describing it as scary. The owners of Lock House, a Grade II-listed property in West Sussex, blame Adele for their failure to sell the building and its 32-acre estate, which they value at &p

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A Japanese man has made headlines with his unique property investment strategy which has earned him rental income worth ¥140 million (c. £726,000) from 200 run-down houses he has bought over the past few years. Since childhood, Hayato Kawamura, a 38-year-old from Osaka, has been fascinated

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One of the world's best-selling singers has been accused of making a 10-bedroom mansion impossible to sell by describing it as scary. The owners of Lock House, a Grade II-listed property in West Sussex, blame Adele for their failure to sell the building and its 32-acre estate, which they value at &p

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