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Coins that are misshapen or have errors on could be worth thousands of pounds, a collector has claimed. Small change that has been damaged in the manufacturing process can be sold for far more than their monetary value because they are so rare.more

Footballers who ply their trade in England have collectively clocked 24,698 minutes at the tournament, of which the majority represent Premier League clubs - considerably more than players from German (14,979) and Italian (14,256) teams.more

The Salvation Army, Citizens UK and housing developer Hill Group are teaming up to build up to 200 ‘pod’ homes on small pockets of land across the city over the next five years.more

Sixty years after acing astronaut tests but barred because she was a woman, Wally Funk will rocket into space alongside Jeff Bezos in just three weeks.more

Britain lost 18,000 millionaires last year as the pandemic battered financial markets, while the rest of Europe’s rich grew their fortunes.more

Two adventurous Norwegian tourists found 2 million kr (196,000 euro) hidden among stones in a forest near the town of Moss in south-eastern Norway. The police are looking for the owner of the money.more

The response times of footballers is slowed down when part of the kit worn by both teams is of the same colour, a new study shows.more

Homeless people are to be given free e-cigarette starter packs as part of a trial designed to help them quit smoking.more

The City Helpers team of a dozen or so people will inform tourists coming to the capital of Małopolska about what is worth seeing in Krakow, but also about what not to do so as not to expose yourself to its residents. The guides will set off to the city in July.more

Incentives including £400 in shopping vouchers could be offered to pregnant women if they agree to quit smoking.more

Researchers working in Israel have identified a previously unknown type of ancient human that lived alongside our species more than 100,000 years ago.more

Human space flight company Space Perspective is now taking reservations on its Spaceship Neptune for flights in early 2024, with tickets priced firmly in the once-in-a-lifetime bracket at $125,000 per person.more

The Bank of England's newly-designed £50 note featuring the portrait of Alan Turing has entered circulation.more

When Jakub protested in a history lesson against a lie in a French textbook on the complicity of Poles in the extermination of Jews in the Treblinka concentration camp, he was called in class "a descendant of the murderers", his parents betrayed. The teenager, however, managed to get a correction and apology from the publisher of the textbook.more

The race between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson to make suborbital space tourism a viable business is heating up.more

Online giant Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year, products that are often new and unused, ITV News can reveal.more

Royal Mail is rolling out a new uniform for postmen and women in the first change in a decade.more

British drivers are set to drive an average of 212 miles further for UK-based holidays than they have in previous years, according to a new survey.more

Until the end of July, Bar Fondamental with branches in Paris and Bordeaux offers customers a free mug of beer, provided they show proof of vaccination against Covid-19.more

The Swedish government has announced the introduction of an additional parental week off for childcare from April next year. Parental allowance is to be paid during this period.more

Shoppers, tourists and workers will be able to stroll across Oxford Circus without dodging the traffic for the first time under radical plans to create a pedestrian “piazza” in the heart of the West End.more

An Egyptian vulture has been spotted in the Isles of Scilly in what has been described as a “once-in-a-century” sighting. The giant bird of prey, which has a distinctive bright yellow face and a mane of feathers, was first seen on Monday flying over Peninnis Head on St Mary's.more

Joe Biden, who will meet Vladimir Putin for the first time as US president today, may have to wait for him. Putin's meetings with world leaders often attract attention also because the Russian leader arrives late.more

For the fourth European Championship title, the German Football Association would pay a total of 10.4 million euros to the 26 national players. Before the German tournament started this Tuesday in Munich, captain Manuel Neuer had negotiated the record sum of 400,000 euros per man in the event of winning the title against world champion France.more

The Delta strain of coronavirus should be renamed the ‘Johnson variant’ because of the Prime Minister’s ‘lax’ border measures, Labour has said.more