Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A small "teapot" found by a British man while cleaning out a garage filled with family relics nearly ended up at a thrift store before being auctioned for nearly $500,000. Hansons Auctioneers said the anonymous 51-year-old seller was cleaning out boxes from a family-owned garage i»»»

By the time the mercurial, volatile singer-songwriter John Martyn heard that he had been awarded an OBE for his contribution to British music, he was in a wheelchair, having lost a leg to septicaemia compounded by a lifetime of substance abuse. He died weeks later, before he could accept the honour»»»

El Pardo, Oct 23 (AP/UNB) — For visitors wondering why a tranquil cemetery outside Madrid suddenly needs around-the-clock police security, the answer is simple: an empty burial space awaits the remains of Gen. Francisco Franco, who is being reunited with his wife 44 years after he died. Weather per»»»

A barrister hit out at sexist male lawyers yesterday after one commented that she would be ‘a kept woman’ and wouldn’t need to work once she was married. In the latest broadside against chauvinist attitudes in the male-dominated profession, Amy Rollings, 31, said she was stunned after the remark by»»»

closeVideoThe director of the California State Lottery resigned Friday, effective immediately, nearly a year after a letter to then-Gov. Jerry Brown accused the Lottery’s management team of public drunkenness and other unprofessional behavior during business trips. That letter prompted an expanded »»»

For those who lived through it, the Teaneck Democratic Municipal Committee meeting on May 8, 2017, is seared into their memories. Josh Gottheimer never wanted to be there in the first place. The New Jersey Democratic congressman hated town halls, but across the country, activists fired up in the wa»»»

Gipf-Oberfrick, Switzerland: Nancy Holten is annoying. She is so annoying in fact that residents of the small village in Switzerland she calls home voted, twice, to bar her from becoming Swiss. The 45-year-old, with her long, flowing dark hair, was born in the Netherlands, but moved to Switzerland »»»