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A woman who allegedly seduced and then blackmailed Buddhist monks has been arrested by police in Thailand. "Ms Golf", as she has been dubbed by police, allegedly extracted 385 million baht (c. £8.8m) from at least nine victims over three years, the BBC reports.

The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, a 25-kilogram meteorite, is expected to fetch between $2 million and $4 million at auction. The rock, known as NWA 16788, will be sold by Sotheby's New York this Wednesday as part of its natural history sale.

A shoe shop has suffered the theft of more than 50 right shoes. Police in Queensland, Australia have appealed for witnesses after a man nicked the 53 shoes – just half of 106 pairs – from a shopping centre on Monday.

A shoe shop has suffered the theft of more than 50 right shoes. Police in Queensland, Australia have appealed for witnesses after a man nicked the 53 shoes – just half of 106 pairs – from a shopping centre on Monday.

As the fierce competition for emerging talent in the financial sector has intensifies, Goldman Sachs has reportedly implemented a new policy requiring its junior investment banking analysts to affirm their commitment to the firm every quarter. The strategy follows a similar robust stance from JPMorg

A lawyer who left a hurried note on another lawyer's car after "dinging" it was entering into a binding contract to pay them, a tribunal has ruled. Carly Peddle wrote and left a note which read "I dinged your back passenger door / happy to pay for!" after accidentally denting Richard Brooks' car doo

A furniture store has been ordered to pay damages to a couple who bought a sofa without knowing its feather cushions would need to be regularly fluffed. Canadian couple Donna and Thomas Dobko launched civil proceedings against Muse & Merchant after being disappointed with the floppiness of their

A multi-million-pound wager on whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would wear a suit by the end of June has descended into confusion, following his recent appearances at a NATO summit. The prediction market on the crypto-currency platform Polymarket, which attracted over $12 million (c.

A local campaign is seeking to save a church which inspired Lewis Grassic Gibbon's famous Scottish novel, Sunset Song. The Church of Scotland is trying to find a buyer for Arbuthnott Church in Aberdeenshire, which prominently appears in the novel.

A North London man who rents a room in a house shared with seven other people has won a life-changing prize worth £736,000 – including a luxury four-bedroom home and a brand-new BMW M4.

A man who convinced thousands of followers that he was the reincarnation Christ has been imprisoned in Russia. Sergei Torop, a former traffic cop, founded the "Church of the Last Testament" in 1991 and recruited thousands of members in Siberia.

Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly led to believe they had become millionaires last Friday after the state-owned gambling company, Norsk Tipping, issued notifications for wildly inflated Eurojackpot winnings. The colossal error stemmed from a currency conversion fault, where prize amounts were

A unique and highly significant collection of 20 barely used McLaren road cars, formerly owned by the late McLaren Formula One team co-owner Mansour Ojjeh, is being offered for sale.

For the first time, retail investors have the opportunity to gain exposure to Elon Musk's private space exploration company, SpaceX, through blockchain-based fractional shares offered by the investment platform Republic. This development signals a significant shift in the accessibility of investment

A teenager has been appointed as interim leader of an English county council with an annual budget of over £400 million. Reform UK emerged as the largest party on Warwickshire County Council after the local elections in May, with 23 of the 57 seats.