A man accused of criminal damage after a Mark Rothko painting was defaced at London's Tate Modern gallery is to deny the charge, a court heard today.

Irish ally of Turf's rival superpowers poised to land fifth Dewhurst victory in seven years

It has been reported that a user on eBay tried to sell a James Holmes mask this week.

Britain's three main mobile operators and the media regulator Ofcom have reached a crucial truce over much-delayed plans to roll out fourth-generation super-fast mobile broadband, known as 4G.

Two guns used by the gangsters Bonnie and Clyde when they were killed in a hail of gunfire have been sold for $504,000 (£312,000).

In 1938 a team of Nazi scientists, funded by Heinrich Himmler went looting in Tibet, where Himmler believed the Aryan race originated.

Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones is in dispute with his ex-wife over her decision to sell the contents of their former family home.

A 1909 oil painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky is poised to sell for as much as $30 million (£18.9 million) when it hits the auction block at Christie's this autumn, the auction house said today.

A pair of underpants that once belonged to Elvis Presley are expected to fetch £10,000 when they go up for auction in Manchester next month. An added bonus for the would-be buyer is that the light-blue boxers come unwashed and with genuine Elvis stains, which came when he wore them underneath a white jumpsuit, during a show in 1977.

The King's briefs are to go on sale at an auction of Elvis Presley pop memorabilia.

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The widow of a Nasa technician who was killed while fuelling a Titan rocket is putting his space memorabilia up for auction.

Al Capone's bulletproof car fetched $215,000 at auction – eight times the price of a regular one of its kind.