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Jean-Claude Van Damme, the famed "Muscles from Brussels", has stepped into the world of spirits with the launch of his co-owned Irish whiskey, Old Oak.

Police are looking for thieves who stole 35 portable toilets from a racetrack. The cubicles, some of which had not been emptied, were taken from Ludlow Autograss Club in Pencombe, Herefordshire on Sunday.

An X-Wing starfighter model from the original Star Wars film which has been missing for decades and was then found in a garage, has sold at auction for more then £2.5 million.

France is to fine shops that leave their lights on too long as it cracks down on energy waste. Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the energy transition minister, said that firms that break rules on when they can have their lights on will face fines of €1,500 (£1,294).

Suspected fraudsters who are alleged to have bought 20 bottles of fine French wine with €95,000 (around £82,000) in fake banknotes have been arrested – but the bottles are believed to be lost. The two men and a woman are accused of swindling a Parisian wine merchant out of 18 bottle

A collection comprising ceramic cats created by British artist Louis Wain has sold for £27,000 at auction.

The Distillers’ Charity hosted its second biennial One of One Auction, in partnership with Sotheby’s, sponsored once again by McLaren Packaging, in the stately Hopetoun House near Edinburgh last week. Comprising a selection of ultra-rare Scotch whiskies, the 39-lot sale – which att

A snuff box and medals awarded to a man who served in the Napoleonic Wars under Wellington have been sold for £3,400 at auction.

A flashy car collection, including a Power-Rangers-style Lamborghini, is to be auctioned off after its YouTuber owner was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for a criminal scheme, including copyright infringements, wire fraud, and money laundering. This comes after Bill Omar

A French couple is seeking compensation after they alleged an antiques dealer deprived them of a seven-figure sum. The couple had sold a traditional Fang mask from Gabon, discovered while clearing their property, to the dealer for a mere €150 (around £130) in September 2021. They later di

Samsung has unveiled a credit card which can be tracked by its users. The card, launched for South Korean clientele in partnership with KB Kookmin Card and American Express, is embedded with the tech behemoth's SmartThings Find technology, enabling users to trace its physical location through Samsun

A museum worker who used his access to steal paintings and auction them off to fund a "luxurious lifestyle" has been spared jail. The 30-year-old worker with a role in managing the collection of a Munich museum admitted stealing four paintings over a two-year period, in one case replacing the origin

In an upcoming auction featuring over 1,800 pieces of film and TV memorabilia, the iconic C-3PO head, famously worn by Anthony Daniels in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, is anticipated to be the star attraction, fetching a sum of up to £1 million. The piece from Mr Daniels' personal trove

A global crypto scammer, who posed as a helping hand to investors, has successfully prosecuted by his victims, from whom he stole around £20,000 in bitcoin which would have been worth as much as £725,000 today. Doede Osman Khan, a 50-year-old resident of Staffordshire, presented himself

A medicinal cannabis farm has seen its entire crop wiped out by an invading herd of sheep who ate around 300kg of cannabis, according to reports. Yannis Bourounis, owner of the farm in Almyros, Greece, told In.gr that the sheep ate everything that was left after Storm Daniel destroyed most of the pl