And Finally

Over the course of 2024, Scottish Financial News published over 240 articles in our popular And Finally section – sharing offbeat and weird finance and business news stories from around the world. But which were the most popular? Read on to find our most-read And Finallys of 2024.

Japanese crime syndicates have reportedly begun using Pokémon trading cards to launder vast amounts of money. The former head of a crime syndicate told Japanese magazine Shunkan Gendai that his organisation used the cards to transport stolen money abroad, according to a translation published

The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments is to be auctioned in New York today. The 1,500-year-old tablet, being auctioned by Sotheby's, is expected to net between $1 million and $2 million in a single-lot sale this afternoon.

A rare spherical egg that a man spontaneously bought after a few pints has sold at auction for £200.

Turkey's Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (Bankacılık Düzenleme ve Denetleme Kurumu – BDDK) has introduced a new regulation prohibiting the use of certain PINs, particularly the founding dates of football clubs, due to security concerns. This measure aims to prevent credit and

A rare Roman coin depicting Brutus, Julius Caesar's assassin, has been sold at auction in Geneva for €1.98 million (c. £1.64m).

Macy's has concluded its investigation into an employee who concealed $151 million (c. £118m) in delivery expenses over three years.

A judge has blocked a bid by satirical news website The Onion to buy far-right media platform Infowars. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was forced to give up the platform he founded in 1999 after declaring bankruptcy shortly after a court ordered him to pay $1.5 billion to the families of victim

A rare Roman coin depicting Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar, has sold at auction for €1.98m (£1.64m).

A pair of Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, stolen from a Minnesota museum in 2005 and recovered by the FBI in 2018, sold at auction on Saturday for a staggering $28 million (£22.4m). With the auction house's fee, the final price tag for the unknown buyer reached $32.5m (&pou

A nun has reportedly been arrested by Italian police on suspicion of colluding with the mafia. Sister Anna Donelli, a 57-year-old nun who volunteers in Milan's San Vittore prison, is suspected of carrying messages between the 'Ndrangheta mafia and its imprisoned members.

Certain types of porridge, crumpets and breakfast cereals are included in a new list of products that fall under a new junk food advertising ban to come into force in the UK in October next year. 

Poundland is offering its first ever apartments for sale as it prepares to open a new store on Elgin's historic High Street.

A man in Oxfordshire has created the ultimate fantasy treehouse with a theme dedicated to writer C.S. Lewis. 

The Pope's surgeon has been charged with fraud in connection with allegedly fake records of operations he never performed. Sergio Alfieri, who successfully operated on Pope Francis twice, in 2021 and 2023, lied about performing surgeries 29 times, prosecutors claim.