A Chinese vase that sold at auction in France for $7.8 million Osenat An art expert in France has been fired after valuing a Chinese vase 4,000 times less than its sale price. The vase belonged to a woman who sold it after clearing her mother’s belonging, according to The Guardian. It’s not clear what drove…
A woman pooed in an Amazon box after her deliveries kept being stolen. Mike Segar/Reuters A TikToker claimed that her mother pooed in an Amazon box after a man kept stealing her parcels. After the mother called him out, he came back and as he took another box he said: “you see that?” To their…
Andrea Prudente (R), in hospital whilst being refused a life-saving abortion, and her partner Jay Weeldreyer Jay Weeldreyer Andrea Prudente, from Washington, almost died after being denied an abortion in Malta when she miscarried on holiday. She is asking the court to declare they violated her human rights and that they continue to do so…
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission logo Thomson Reuters Kim Kardashian agreed to pay the SEC $1.3 million for promoting Ethereum Max this week. Other celebrities including Floyd Mayweather and Jake Paul have been hit with lawsuits from crypto investors. The SEC’s ruling is a “stark celebrity warning,” one analyst said. Several crypto-promoting celebrities…
Ben McCanna/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images US consumers are expected to spend a record $10.6 billion on Halloween this year. Die-hard Halloween fans are increasingly investing more time and money in the spooky season. Spirit Halloween has opened 1,450 pop-up stores and expects to hire 35,000 people. No one takes Halloween more seriously…
The facade of 2-8a Rutland Gate, thought to be the most expensive home ever sold in Britain. LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images. A $227 million mansion for sale in London is owned by Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan, the FT reported. The home was originally thought to be owned by Chinese billionaire Cheung Chung-kiu. Hui…
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Blizzard has shared a new animated short for one of Overwatch’s latest recruits, Kiriko. The nine-minute video – which debuted at TwitchCon earlier today – introduces us to the game’s newest healer, giving us a peek into the origins of this “loving daughter and deadly protector”. “The protector of Kanezaka strikes again. Discover the two…
PUBG: Battlegrounds’ next update will “refine the gunplay meta”. That’s according to developer Krafton, which says update 20.1 – which goes live on 11th October for PC and 19th for consoles and introduces a new ranked season – includes “several improvements to weapon attachments, as well as updates to firing from vehicles, a new ranked…
This week, innovations from DeepMind and OpenAI led our coverage, as did news from Intel aiming to make developers’ lives a bit easier. Meanwhile, news from Microsoft and Tenable highlighted that enterprises need to remain on their toes to prevent and fight cyberthreats.Read MoreRead More