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A Fife man's collection of DC Comics has sold at auction for more than twice its £10,000 estimate. The collector from Kirkcaldy sold the lot for £27,000 on Tuesday.

Police are on the hunt for an unusual serial thief who has stolen metal grates from dozens of urinals in public parks. At least 37 urinals across 16 parks in the Japanese city of Sapporo have been hit by the thief, whose motivation is unclear, TV station UHB reports.

A microscopic handbag, painstakingly modelled on the Louis Vuitton's famous OnTheGo tote, recently fetched a staggering $63,750 (around £50k) at an auction hosted by Joopiter, an online auction house established by Pharrell Williams. Uniquely crafted by the New York-based art collective MSCHF,

A man has been handed a prison sentence exceeding six years for perpetrating a green energy Ponzi scheme, which claimed to transform cow manure into energy, defrauding investors of over $8.7 million (£6.9m). The six years and nine months sentence for Ray Brewer, 66, of Porterville, and Sh

A construction worker has gained some online attention after sharing a story about how he got revenge against a former co-worker using $40 (£31) and some fake coins to make him believe he had struck gold. Redditor u/lrze403 works for a construction company that remodels homes that ha

A banker, originally from a Welsh council estate, is set to sell his renovated folly in Wales, featured on the 2009 edition of Grand Designs, for a price of £1.85 million. The dilapidated property, spread over 24 acres, was purchased and refurbished by Dean Berry and wife Sarah. The updat

A Gustav Klimt portrait, "Lady With a Fan", has set a new auction record at Sotheby's in London, selling for $108.4 million (£85.3m). This marks a high point for the city's high-value art market, surpassing the European record set by Alberto Giacometti’s “Walking Man I” in 20

A jumper worn by Princess Diana is set to go up for auction.

Two of the world's richest men have agreed to an extraordinary showdown – a cage match. SpaceX and Tesla titan Elon Musk, and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg, have mutually agreed to fight each other after Musk sparked the idea on Twitter.

Two lawyers and a law firm who cited fake court cases generated by ChatGPT have been fined $5,000 (£3,900). Judge P. Kevin Castel, in Manhattan, said there was nothing "inherently improper" about using AI to help write a legal filing, but lawyers have a responsibility to ensure their accuracy.

Bosses who tried to use a fake priest to trick workers into making "confessions" of wrongdoing have been ordered to pay nearly £109,000 in back wages and damages. Employees at the Taqueria Garibaldi restaurant in Sacramento, California said they were introduced by the owner to a priest who wou

A disgruntled employer who allegedly paid a worker with nearly 100,000 oil-covered pennies accompanied with an offensive note is facing a lawsuit.

Seven wealthy Persian cats are going up for adoption less than a year after they became the largest 'benefactors' of their owner's passing. Nancy Sauer, who passed away last November at the age of 84, wanted her cats to continue living alone in her $2.5 million (£1.96m) Florida home after she

In a remarkable display of canine dexterity and intelligence, Leo, a two-year-old working cocker spaniel from Scotland, has secured a place in the Guinness World Records. Using his impressive mouth coordination skills, Leo managed to deposit an astounding 23 coins into a piggy bank within just 60 se

A crooked police officer was hospitalised after swallowing a stack of banknotes to avoid being caught extorting a businessperson. The officer, in Colombia's capital Bogotá, allegedly teamed up with a colleague to threaten the business owner with false sexual allegations, The Guardian reports.