A human-sized Labubu doll was sold this week for a record 1.08m yuan ($150,324; £110,465), according to a Chinese auction house. The 131cm (4ft 4in) figurine was sold at the Yongle International Auction in Beijing. The auctioneer said it is now the most expensive toy of its kind in the world. Labubu dolls are quirky...
A small marble sculpture thought to be a copy of the French artist Auguste Rodin’s work has turned out to be the real thing, selling for almost $1m at an auction in France on Monday. The sculpture, called “Despair”, a figure of a woman hugging her knees and holding one foot, is a work by...
Tesco has sold a piece of land which is vital to the delivery of a multi-million pound relief road for a town in Devon. Mid Devon District Council said the news marked “the overcoming of another major hurdle to finally deliver the road” in Cullompton. The council got £34m from central government in August to...
BBC The Treasury has announced the sale of its final shares in the NatWest Group. It means the bank will be under full private ownership, almost two decades after it was bailed out by the taxpayer amid the 2008 financial crisis. This marks a symbolic end to a dramatic chapter in British banking history. It...
A council said it had taken a loss on the sale of a former leisure centre site in order to keep a promise not to build student accommodation on it. Plans have been agreed to sell the old Clifton Hill leisure centre site, in Exeter, to a company that builds affordable housing for older people....
The jersey worn by Kobe Bryant on his Los Angeles Lakers debut in 1996 has sold for $7m (£5.26m) at auction. The jersey, worn by Bryant during his 1996-1997 rookie season, becomes the fourth-most expensive game-worn sports jersey of all time. The American spent his entire career with the Lakers, winning the NBA Championship five...
Rogers Jones & Co The jersey sold for £27,500 as part of an auction of a collection of JPR Williams’ items A rugby jersey worn by the late Wales legend JPR Williams in what is considered one of the sport’s greatest ever games has been auctioned off for £27,500. The jersey was worn in the...
Charlotte Benton & Gavin Kermack BBC News, West Midlands Fieldings Auctioneers The coin is thought to be the only one of its kind to be found in Britain A Roman coin that is believed to be the first of its kind found in the UK has sold for nearly £5,000. Ron Walters, 76, from Kingswinford,...
A forgotten oil-on-canvas masterpiece by Indian painter MF Husain, rediscovered decades later, has rewritten the record books for Indian art. Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra), a sprawling 14-foot-wide mural, sold for an unprecedented $13.8m (£10.6m) at a Christie’s auction in New York last week. It shattered the previous high for Indian art of $7.4m (£5.7m), fetched...