And Finally

A painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte is expected to sell for a record-breaking £45 million when it goes up for auction for the first time this year.

An Italian mobster with a distinctive scar on his chin was caught after decades on the run when he was spotted on Google Street View. Police say they tracked down mafia killer Gioacchino Gammino in the Spanish town of Galapagar after he was snapped by Google cameras standing outside a grocery shop.

Car adverts will be required to include a message encouraging viewers to walk or cycle instead of driving under a new French law.

India's tax authority has seized £26 million in banknotes, 23 kilograms of gold and 250 kilograms of silver from the country's biggest-ever tax evader. Businessman Piyush Jain was arrested after officials raided his home, described by local media as a "warehouse of money" with cash "spilling o

A celebrity chef has won defamation proceedings brought against a food critic who wrote a scathing review of his "bland risotto".

High street banks in the UK have started to track customers' 'walking style' in an effort to counter fraud.

Berlin's public transport company has introduced cannabis-infused tickets which have a "calming effect" when eaten by passengers. BVG, which operates the U-Bahn, tram, bus and ferry systems in the German capital, said the special tickets are made from edible paper sprinkled with three drops of hemp

A barrister who claimed his colleagues had targeted him over farts he couldn't stop has lost his lawsuit against the English prosecution service. Tarique Mohammed, who worked for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), told an employment tribunal that he couldn't stop farting because of his heart medic

A man who lifted his sleeping ex-girlfriend's eyelids to unlock her phone with facial recognition and steal her money has been jailed.

A rare 16th Century gold coin depicting Mary Queen of Scots has sold for £17,500 at auction. The sale was conducted by auctioneers Woolley & Wallis, of Salisbury, Wilts and was expected to fetch £3,000.

The first text message ever sent is being put up for auction by Vodafone.

Blood donors will be rewarded with Christmas trees under a novel scheme in Poland.

A court has ruled that a 39-year-old unemployed woman is not entitled to financial support from her retired father. The woman lives in Rome with her mother, who sought €900 per month in alimony from her husband, who separated from her and moved out of the family home in 2013.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club, an in-demand non-fungible token (NFT) has been accidentally sold for a little more than $3,000 (£2,270) - one-hundredth of its market price. The Bored Ape Yacht Club is a limited run of 10,000 pieces of digital art, each with minor variations.

A rare cask-aged collection of rums from Banchory-based Dark Matter Distillers has sold at auction for £41,800. The nine bottles date back to the opening of the distillery in 2015. All of them were aged in a virgin American oak barrel at 63.5 per cent ABV.