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A man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing tens of thousands of limited edition coins commemorating beloved cartoon dog Bluey. The Australian Mint produced the limited edition coins with a face value of one Australian dollar each – but before they could go into circulation, 63,000 of the

A hurricane brought cocaine worth more than $1 million to land yesterday. Hurricane Debby reached Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, though was downgraded to a tropical storm as it made its way across the south-eastern US.

The largest Scottish river pearl found in living history is expected to net up to £60,000 at auction this month. The Abernethy Pearl, found in 1967 by Scotland’s last pearl fisherman, William (Bill) Abernethy, will be auctioned by Lyon & Turnbull on Wednesday 21 August.

A famous Scottish pearl is set to be sold at auction for up to £60,000.

A report from the France's top audit court, Cour des Comptes, has highlighted high spending concerns after the French President's office incurred expenses of almost €475,000 (c. £400,000) for a state dinner hosted in honour of King Charles. The opulent banquet, held in September at t

The famous gold bikini worn by the late Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars has sold at auction for $175,000 (£136,000).

A six-acre island off the Devon coast complete with private beach, fortifications, planning permission for a luxury hotel, and reportedly 15 ghosts, has been put up for sale. Drake's Island, just 600 yards from Plymouth, was used as a military defence for hundreds of years – with 18th-century

Germany has objected to Turkish efforts to impose rules across the EU on what can and can't be called a doner kebab. Turkey is trying to secure 'traditional speciality guaranteed' status for doner, strictly defining it as beef and lamb horizontally sliced into cutlets with a thickness of 3-5mm, or c

'Intimate' letters and cards written by Princess Diana are to be sold at auction.

The company behind plans drawn up by Silicon Valley billionaires for an $800 million (c. £620m) utopia in central California have been forced to put the project on hold after the release of a report highlighting huge potential costs to taxpayers. California Forever had promised

A pair of John Lennon's glasses are to be sold at auction at the end of this month.

Fake olive oil worth almost $1 million (c. £767,000) has been seized from an alleged criminal gang in Italy. Italian police arrested seven people and raided more than a dozen garages and warehouses in the major overnight operation last week, CNN reports.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million (c. £21m) San Francisco mansion is reportedly riddled with problems, according to a lawsuit filed by Altman's legal team. The luxury abode located in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood, was said to once be the most expensive listing in San Francisco,

A dinosaur's skeleton has been sold for $44.6 million (£34m) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City.

An art gallery which became embroiled in a discrimination row over a women-only exhibition space has admitted the supposed Picasso paintings displayed there were fake all along. A court ruled earlier this year that Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) could not lawfully bar men from its Ladie