A police officer who sold his trousers online for a miserly sum has been demoted. Owen Hurley, an inspector with Hertfordshire Police, sold his police-issue trousers on Vinted for £4, the BBC reports.
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In an unexpected turn of events, a 285-year-old lemon has been sold at auction for a final price of £1,400. Discovered hidden in a 19th-century cabinet, the 18th-century fruit from 1739 became the star of the auction, fetching a over 23 times its estimated price.
A pair of Michael Jordan championship Air Jordan trainers have been sold for a record-breaking $8m (£6.33m) at auction.
A fraudster has succeeded in swindling over £20 million from a company by using deepfake technology to pose as its chief financial officer. In a cautionary tale for the AI age, the scam saw a finance worker in the Hong Kong office of a multinational firm invited via email to join a video call
A toddler who crawled into a claw machine and cheerfully lounged on the prize toys had to be removed by police. The three-year-old became stuck in the Hello Kitty-themed machine in a shopping centre in Queensland, Australia on Sunday, The Guardian reports.
One of the most pivotal documents in the history of football is set to go to auction in March with a starting price of £300,000. The item in question is the famous and unique napkin on which the first promise of a contract was written to secure the 13-year-old Lionel Messi for FC Barcelona.
A collection of 120 guitars and amps is being auctioned today, owned by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler. The estimated sale prices vary widely, from £300 for an electric-acoustic mandolin to a staggering £500,000 for a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard.
A rare Lamborghini Diablo, which was initially custom-built for Donald Trump, has sold at auction for $1.1 million (around £870,000), five times its estimated value. The limited edition 1997 Diablo VT Roadster, one of only 132 produced for the US market, became a hot commodity, thanks to
A man has been arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank just three days after being acquitted of robbing a different bank.
A pastor who admitted pocketing more than $1 million (around £0.78m) from his followers says the Lord told him to.
A thirty-year-old bottle of whiskey has become the most expensive ever sold at £2.2 million ($2.8m).
A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of taping dead fish to more than a dozen ATMs over a two-month period. Police believe the 17-year-old is the prankster responsible for running an Instagram account named "fish_bandit84", which shared photos of the bizarre deeds with tens of thousands of foll
A set of Winston Churchill's false teeth are to be sold at auction next month.
Pop star Madonna is being sued by two concertgoers because she started her show two hours late. New York City men Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden bought tickets for Madonna's show last month. It was due to begin at 8:30 p.m., but Madonna did not take to the stage until after 10:45pm
Arnold Schwarzenegger spent several hours being detained by German customs officials in a tax row over a luxury watch. The action movie star turned climate change campaigner allegedly failed to declare a custom-made watch by Audemars Piguet, which he intended to auction to raise funds for The Schwar