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A lawyer has been publicly reprimanded after falsely telling a court he was showing signs of early-onset dementia in an attempt to be removed from a criminal case. Fred Blake Perkins, an attorney from Emmetsburg, in the US state of Iowa was appointed to represent a man who was arrested in December 2

The president of a Taiwanese university has taken a two-month unpaid leave of absence after a bizarre incident in which he told graduating students who are unable to cope with the demands of working life that they should “quickly end themselves". Chen Ching-ho, president of Shih Hsin Universit

Fans of The Lord of the Rings can now own one coin to rule them all as The Royal Mint has launched a series of 50p coins featuring the famous ring. The coins mark the 25th anniversary of Peter Jackson's Academy Award-winning film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

A medieval manuscript regarded as one of the earliest to tell the tale of King Arthur and the search for the holy grail is to be offered at auction for the first time after more than 700 years in private hands. Christie's will sell the richly illuminated tome in its valuable books and manuscripts sa

Actress Rosamund Pike interrupted the curtain call of her West End play Inter Alia to criticise an audience member she said had been texting during one of the production’s most emotional scenes. The actress, who starred in the 2014 hit film Gone Girl, returned to the stage alone after Sat

A Pembrokeshire couple who rescued two paintings from a skip while walking their dog have sold the artwork at auction for £16,000.

Peter Murrell purchased 108 toilet rolls using SNP funds just two days before Nicola Sturgeon urged the public not to panic buy at the start of the Covid pandemic, court documents show. The former SNP chief executive, who last week admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the party between

Police in the US state of Nebraska responding to reports of gunfire attended the scene only to find that the perpetrator was a dog. Officers in Scottsbluff found a truck with damage to one of its doors and a woman suffering minor injuries after the dog inside the vehicle accidentally discharged a sh

Russia has passed legislation allowing its central bank and a number of major financial and state institutions to operate their own anti-drone defence systems as Ukrainian long-range strikes continue to test Moscow’s air defences. The law, approved by the State Duma, authorises employees at Ru

Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a strike by making a last-minute deal with its South Korean workers’ union, agreeing to distribute an incredible 40 trillion won (c. £20 billion) in bonuses to its semiconductor workforce. Driven by an AI infrastructure boom that has transformed memor

Peter Murrell, formerly one of the most influential figures in Scottish politics, faces prison after admitting to embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP over 12 years and using the money to buy everything from a luxury car to the video game Grand Theft Auto V. The hit series, which origina

An Iowa man is suing Nintendo and The Pokémon Company International after allegedly being refused certification as a 'Pokémon Professor' despite passing the qualifying exam. Kyle Owens, 34, of Laurens, filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, allegi

The chief executive of a US firm has defended his decision to eliminate the company’s HR department, arguing the team had been “creating problems that didn’t exist”. Ryan Breslow, co-founder and chief executive of Bolt, made the comments after the company cut around 30 per ce

A detectorist who has been finding artefacts for two decades has made over £13,000 at auction after selling her finds.

A spectacular blue-green diamond known as the "Ocean Dream" has shattered records at Christie's in Geneva, selling for 13.6 million Swiss francs (c. £13m; 14.9m) and setting a new world auction benchmark for diamonds of its colour. Weighing 5.5 carats and cut into a striking triangular shape,