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South Africa's president has claimed that he hid at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in his sofa because it seemed "the safest place" to store it.

A 19th-century jail in southern France is to become a luxury hotel after being sold under a programme to modernise the country’s prisons.

A student has been left stunned after receiving two boxes of Weetabix instead of the MacBook laptop he ordered from Amazon.

A tribunal has ruled that a group of employees are due nearly CA$500,000 (£308,000) in wages after their employer paid out 50% of their salaries with company gift cards. The Canadian Employment Standards Tribunal (EST) dismissed an application from the Vancouver-based Dayton Boots Company appe

An ancient gold coin wrongly classified as a fake by specialists has proven the existence of a third century Roman emperor who was written out of history as a fictional character.

Mercedes-Benz has begun offering an "acceleration increase" option for $1,200 (£990) per year for some of its electric vehicles. Limited to Mercedes-EQ EQE and EQS all-electric models, owners would have their vehicles' speed unlocked via an over-the-air update allowing them to accelerate

The creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, Yuji Naka, has been arrested for alleged insider trading.

A plumber working in an Edinburgh flat was astonished to find a 135-year-old message in a bottle under the floorboards. Peter Allan cut a hole in the floor of a flat in Morningside when he discovered the whisky bottle complete with a rolled-up note.

A bank robber who wrote his demand note on the back of his birth certificate is facing jail. Missouri man Michael C. Loyd, 30, who left ample evidence of his guilt at the scene, pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery in a federal court last week.

A man who complained about his wife's insistence on treating her dogs as her children has been granted a divorce.

A pair of Steve Jobs' "well used" Birkenstock sandals have sold at auction for more than $200,000.

Million Dollar has become the first real estate company to provide a platform for the buying and selling of land in the Metaverse.

Lake District officials have ordered a housing developer to replace the foots of five newly built homes with locally quarried materials after the housebuilder used Welsh slate. Builders are required to use Cumbrian slate in most areas of the Lakes, but the rule is often ignored as second-hand materi

Auditors hired by the Vatican to tidy up its accounts claim they were fired for digging up too much dirt – and are now suing the Holy See for €9.3 million.

A tenant who tried to sell the house he was renting for £400,000 without his landlord's knowledge has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.