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Online auction site launches for rich and famous

Mon Nov 9, 10:24 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millionaires down on their luck now have a place to sell their mega-yachts, super-cars and family jewels without having to resort to the pawn shop.

  • Man provides photo for his own wanted poster Mon Nov 9, 10:23 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.

  • Brazilian student Geysi Villa Nova Arruda attends a media conference in Sao Bernardo do Campo, November 9, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer
    Student expelled after row over short dress Mon Nov 9, 10:22 AM ET

    SAO PAULO (Reuters) - In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus.

  • Jason Sadler, 26, who founded www.iwearyourshirt.com, is seen in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/iwearyourshirt.com/Handout
    Man makes living by selling the shirt on his back Fri Nov 6, 10:31 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso.

  • Driver suspected in Bank of France van heist Fri Nov 6, 10:29 AM ET

    LYON, France (Reuters) - French police are looking for the driver of a security van suspected of driving off with more than 10 million euros ($14.85 million) after the man vanished, apparently after first clearing out his flat.

  • Rachel Christie after being crowned Miss England in London, July 20, 2009. REUTERS/Miss England/Handout
    Miss England gives up crown over brawl reports Fri Nov 6, 10:29 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.

  • Health worker fired for hockey flu shots Thu Nov 5, 12:14 PM ET

    CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Senior health officials in the Canadian province of Alberta said on Wednesday they had fired an unidentified worker for giving National Hockey League players preferential access to the H1N1 flu vaccine.

  • Wife's free handbag a "symbol of derision" Thu Nov 5, 12:13 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA vice-president Jack Warner is returning a handbag given to his wife by England's 2018 World Cup bid because he says it has become "a symbol of derision, betrayal and embarrassment."

  • A Burmese pythons is seen shortly before capture by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in an undated image. REUTERS/FWC/Handout
    Giant snake capture was a hoax? Thu Nov 5, 12:12 PM ET

    MIAMI (Reuters) - A man who caught a 14-foot (4.2-meter) python in a Florida drain pipe was charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe in order to stage the capture.

  • A service-goer holds a red poppy wreath decorated with white poppies of peace during a service in central London, November 11, 2006. REUTERS/Toby Melville
    "Give pees a chance" student may face jail Wed Nov 4, 11:59 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - A university student who was photographed urinating over a war memorial was warned on Wednesday that he could be jailed for the "disgusting act."

  • A Somali resident purchases a cell-phone handset at a shopping centre in Mogadishu, November 4, 2009. Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
    Cheap mobile calls help more young couples elope Wed Nov 4, 11:56 AM ET

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden's day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl's parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully.

  • Moonshine turns horse race rowdy Wed Nov 4, 7:42 AM ET

    TODOS SANTOS CUCHUMATAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - Despite a drinking ban mayhem erupted at a traditional Mayan horse race on Sunday with riders falling off their horses and drunken spectators stumbling through the mountain village.

  • Members of the hardline Al Shabaab Islamist rebel group sit on a pick-up during a demonstration in Mogadishu, October 30, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Faruk
    Rebels ban musical ringtones on phones Tue Nov 3, 1:02 PM ET

    NAIROBI (Reuters) - Sacdiyo Sheeq used to love listening to Bollywood movie songs on her mobile telephone.

  • A man tries out the new iPhone 3GS on the first day it is being sold in Spain at the company's store in downtown Madrid June 19, 2009. REUTERS/Susana Vera
    Scared of flying? Press the fear iButton Tue Nov 3, 1:00 PM ET

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - People scared of flying can now press a button on their iPhone to help them deal with their panic.