A giant aluminium globe-shaped bar, complete with five brass barstools, will be offered for sale by a Maryland auctioneer – as the bar from “Hitler’s yacht”.more
The Royal Mint has no plans to make new 2p or £2 coins for the next 10 years. A coin mountain lies in storage as demand has dropped, in contrast to banknotes.more
A London law firm is looking to recruit a dog walker on a salary of up to £30,000 a year. The somewhat unusual ‘Private Assistant and Dog Walker’ role is currently being advertised on behalf of Joseph Hage Aaronson, a litigation specialist with offices in Holborn.more
Cities are in part defined by their bridges and crossings. They are meant to be the jewels along their rivers, provide vital transport links and beautiful vantage points of a city.more
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts has blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and successfully reached orbit, footage broadcast by Russia's space agency Roscosmos showed.more
Huge luck for a lottery player from Baden-Württemberg: The woman won the highest win so far in the 6aus49 drawing. More than 42 million will soon land in their account.more
An 11-year-old boy who wrote a letter to his idol Jurgen Klopp about his anxiety over starting secondary school was staggered when the Liverpool boss sent him a personal letter back.more
More people are being born without wisdom teeth and an extra artery in their arm as a result of a human "microevolution" in recent years, a study has found.more
Two American economists won the Nobel Prize on Monday for improving the theory of how auctions work and inventing new and better auction formats that are now woven into many parts of the economy, including one that revolutionized the telecom industry.more
The secret file is said to contain incredible colour photographs of the infamous sighting in 1990, where two hitchhikers claim they saw a 100ft craft hovering over Calvine in Scotlandmore
Daniel Ricciardo's first podium finish for Renault comes with a special bonus. He gets to choose a tattoo for his boss. The Australian driver and Renault team principal Cyril Abiteboul had a bet that Abiteboul would get a tattoo of Ricciardo's choice if he could finish in the top three of a race this season. Ricciardo managed it with a run to third in the Eifel Grand Prix on Sunday.more
15 kilograms of sand and pebbles from the beaches of Sardinia were sent back to the island by a resident of Tuscany after 40 years, since she took this peculiar holiday souvenir from there. She found sand in her basement.more
The employer should pay for the coffee, tea, toilet paper, gas, electricity and water used by employees while working at home, said NIBUD, a Dutch foundation funded primarily by the government and advising on household finances.more
September was the warmest on record globally, according to the weather service Copernicus. It was 0.05C hotter than September last year, which in turn set the previous record high for the month.more
Tasmanian devils have been released into the wild on Australia's mainland 3,000 years after the feisty marsupials went extinct there, in what conservationists described Monday as a "historic" step.more
The captain of the Polish national football team has passed his master's exam at the Higher School of Education in Sport today, the university informed on Facebook.more
This Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Inside Science staff will rise early in the morning to tune into the webcasts announcing the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry. more
In the Rędzin district of Wrocław, in the floodplains near the estuary of Widawa to the Odra River, walkers noticed an alligator yesterday. The police were called to the scene, which in turn notified the employees of the Wrocław zoo.more
Germany is considering introducing feminine forms for military ranks, according to reports, 20 years after women gained the right to join the Bundeswehr.more