A letter written by Diana, Princess of Wales, to a man dying from Aids is to be sold at auction.
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The future of Elvis Presley's famous Graceland mansion is in doubt after his granddaughter launched legal proceedings to prevent it from being auctioned. Riley Keough – herself a well-known actress – is suing Naussany Investments, which claims that the mansion was used as collateral on a
Italian police have seized 134 Fiat Topolino micro-cars marked with a small Italian flag after the vehicles arrived at the port of Livorno.
In anticipation of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, The Royal Mint has unveiled a new 50 pence coin honouring the fallen Allied troops and veterans. The coin's reverse, designed by David Lawrence in collaboration with the Imperial War Museums, depicts Allied soldiers disembarking onto
The German government has rejected calls for a price cap on doner kebabs amid uncontrolled "dönerflation". Once available for just €3 (around £2.6), the average price of a doner kebab has more than doubled in the past two years, Euronews reports.
A police department is being sued after making jail inmates pay for ice cream, candyfloss and laser tag for staff and their families. Black Hawk County Sheriff's Department in Waterloo, Iowa is among US police departments which controversially bill arrestees for the cost of their stay in jail.
A company which hid an offer of free wine in its online privacy policy has said it has finally been claimed three months later. Tax Policy Associates (TPA) added the following words to its privacy policy in February: "We will send a bottle of good wine to the first person to read this."
One of the first coins ever in circulation in Scotland has been sold at auction for £1,500.
A painting by George Stubbs is to be sold at auction for only the second time in its history.
Japanese police have apprehended a yakuza boss suspected of stealing Pokémon cards. Keita Saito, a 39-year-old kanbu (leader) of the Takinogawa family, part of the Sumiyoshi-kai crime syndicate — the second-largest yakuza group in Japan — was arrested in late April.
Dame Shirley Bassey is to auction off her jewellery collection which is estimated to be worth over £598,260.
A criminal defence lawyer who repeatedly made off without paying her restaurant bills has been struck off. English solicitor Kerry Ann Stevens was convicted of fraud last year in connection with two incidents, one where she left a restaurant with an unpaid £60.91 bill and another where she lie
A painting that had been put up for auction for just €1,500 (£1,285) has been confirmed as a lost work of Italian painter Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
Ugandan cocoa farmers have been forced to hire armed men to protect their crop amid soaring cocoa prices. Cocoa prices recently soared to an all-time high due to unusually dry weather in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, though have fallen back recently as conditions have improved.
An auction house in Dorset has withdrawn 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls from sale after an MP warned that selling them would exacerbate the violence of colonialism.