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A handwritten lyric sheet for two of David Bowie songs is expected to sell for up to £100,000 when it is sold at auction. The sheet contains a series of corrections, drafts and notes written by the singer when he was creating his Rock n Roll Suicide and Suffragette City tracks.

The day after Thanksgiving is widely known as "Black Friday" for retailers and shoppers across the US, but plumbers said they refer to it as "Brown Friday" because they encounter an influx of sewage and dirty sink water.

Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler is to auction more than 120 of his guitars and amps, with a total of 25% of the proceeds pledged to go to charity.

A musical based on Gwyneth Paltrow's high-profile court battle with an optometrist who claimed he skied into her is to be staged in London. Gwyneth Goes Skiing, featuring original music by American singer-songwriter Leland, will be performed in the Pleasance Theatre from 13–23 December.

Renowned Colombian pop artist Shakira has consented to a €7.3m (around £6.4m) fine with Spanish prosecutors to settle tax evasion charges, circumventing a court trial in Barcelona. The fine is half of the €14.5m (around £12.7m) purportedly owed in taxes during 2012-2014, a

A rare bottle of Macallan whisky has sold for £2.2 million making it the highest-priced whisky to ever be sold at auction.

The federal government of Canada has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants from KPMG for advice on cost-cutting – specifically, on how to reduce spending on consultancy. This irony is steeped in the recent documents tabled in Canada's Parliament, detailing a hefty sum of $669,6

A vintage Ferrari has been sold at auction for £42 million. 

A lawyer who quit her job to become a full-time animal psychic has said she is now happier and earning more money. Nikki Vasconez charges $550 (around £441) for an "animal communication session" in which she purports to speak with any animal, living or dead, for up to 90 minutes.

A confectionery company has lost its entire $110,000 (around £89,000) shipment of exotic Japanese KitKats, becoming the latest victim of a sophisticated 'strategic theft' scam.

The leather jacket that Michael Jackson wore in a 1980s Pepsi advert has sold for £250,000 at an auction.

A group of police officers who allegedly accepted a large bribe in lieu of seizing cannabis and cash from a suspected drug dealer have been arrested after he subsequently reported them. The five junior officers and one senior officer from a Trinidad and Tobago police department were detained for que

A Picasso painting has been sold at auction for $139.4 million (around £113.7m). The painting which featured his young mistress was sold last night at Sotheby's in New York.

In an unorthodox move for a bank, challenger firm Starling bank has created a new tool to assist couples in managing fair distribution of household chores and hopefully reduce quarrelling. The bank's 'Share the Load' app tracks the division of unpaid labour so couples can easily see where things sta

Four men have been charged in connection with the theft of a solid gold toilet worth £5 million more than four years ago. The fully-functioning 18-carat toilet, named America, was stolen from Blenheim Palace in England days after it was installed as an art piece.