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Hundreds of Sir Elton John's belongings are being sold at auction.

A village in France has voted to ban people from using their smartphones in public. Seine-Port, a village of fewer than 2,000 people around an hour's drive from Paris, backed the measure in a local referendum earlier this month, The Guardian reports.

Neighbours living next to a dilapidated house in Birmingham have revealed their shock at it being listed on the market.

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.

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