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One of the world's purest and most saturated pink diamonds has sold for a record HK$453.2 million (£50.54m) at a Sotheby's Hong Kong auction.

Hushpuppi, an Instagram influencer from Nigeria has been sentenced to more than eleven years in prison in the USA for his role in an international fraud syndicate. Hushpuppi, whose real name is Ramon Abba, was ordered to pay $1,732,841 (c.£1.52m) in restitution to two victims.

An all-inclusive holiday in Egypt has been advertised as cheaper than living in the UK this winter amid rising bills. The 28-day 'Escape the UK' holiday launched by easyJet holidays is priced at £650 per person per month, which includes travel, accommodation, food and costly outgoings like bro

A woman who claimed to have suffered from whiplash has been given a suspended jail term after she posted pictures of herself climbing Sydney Harbour Bridge. Lois Cartridge has also been given a £20,000 bill for lawyers’ fees after a judge in the English High Court ruled that she was in c

An Australian mining company boss has pleaded to 20 of his staff to return to work after they won a portion of a $160 million (£90m) lottery jackpot. The group of 20 employees won a third of the jackpot, splitting it with two other winners. Their $53m (£29.8m) win came out to $2.6m (&pou

Swedish furniture giant IKEA is building a case against a video game developer whose new horror game is set in a furniture store. One-man indie game studio Ziggy recently raised almost £57,000 to fund the development of its new survival horror game, The Store Is Closed.

A lottery winner has kept his lucky win secret from his wife and child, worried that the family's newfound wealth would spoil them and make them lazy. The man in southern China won a hefty 219 million yuan (£26.14m), the grand prize, after all seven of his numbers matched up. He had bought som

A man has been rebuked for dialling 999 in a row over pumpkins. West Yorkshire Police shared an audio recording of the call on Twitter as it pleaded with members of the public not to call except in a life-or-death emergency.

A woman in the New Town in Edinburgh who painted her door pink has incurred the wrath of locals. Miranda Dickson, 48, departed from the mandated black to paint the front door of her Drummond Place property a shade of Champagne pink, leading to the council threatening her with a £20,000 fine.

A woman has received a cheque for £18,000 from the DWP after money expert Martin Lewis revealed a pensions tax trick that numerous people are failing to claim. During his Martin Lewis Money Show Live, Mr Lewis said hundreds of thousands of people - mostly women - could be owed at least £

A row has broken out over plans to build a new, bog-standard public toilet in San Francisco at a cost of $1.7 million (around £1.5 million). City councillors last week called a press conference to announce that Noe Valley, currently served only by a temporary portable toilet, would get a singl

A manuscript containing a passage from Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is set to be sold at auction. The manuscript, which is expected to sell for between £530,000 and £700,000, will go on sale in November, The Guardian reports. 

Finally, a politician you can trust: a cat has been appointed as the mayor of an Italian town and will stay in office for a year. Miao spent her first day as ‘mayor of the animals’ of Civita d’Antino, Abruzzo Region, southern Italy earlier this month.

A former lighthouse building with a historic connection to author Robert Louis Stevenson has gone up for sale for £149,000. The Lighthouse Engine House is adjacent to Noss Head Lighthouse and was home to Alan Stevenson, the engineer who oversaw the construction the lighthouse in the 1800s &mda

An auction house has sacked an expert who valued a Chinese vase at €2,000 — which went on to sell for nearly €8 million. The expert, who has not been named, told the French auction house that he believed that vase was from the 20th century and not an antique, The Guardian reports.