The Qianlong Emperor's vase was bought for £1 in a Hertfordshire charity shop and has now been sold for £484,000. The shopper says he will use fortune to 'save for [his] daughter's future'.

People on social media have been trying to practice their own prosperity theology and resell tickets for Kanye West's Sunday Service at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church.

Yvonne Hogan and Kevin Dollimore, of Hertfordshire, turned their side hustle into a business with 16 employees after spotting an opportunity to purchase stock from Woolworths when it went bust in 2009.

Mohammed Rafiq, 58, from Manchester, who is now locally known as 'The King of Christmas,' started the company in 2012, when he saw the trend in Christmas jumpers emerge.

A former junior producer for The Kyle and Jackie O Show claims to have sold a container full of 'rare Sydney bushfire smoke' on eBay for $72.

Phil Mires from Chertsey in Surrey was determined to get out of his 'dead-end',£5.25 an hour, zero-hours contract job as a golf operative at age 20 when he started his antiques store on eBay.

Jordan David Hans Gill, 29, appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on Tuesday where he also admitted to sending threatening emails to a police officer.

Chris Rice, from Portsmouth,launched a family-run sex toy business with annual turnover of £1 million and told FEMAIL that working with his relatives is 'never awkward'.

Which? research showed that every smoke alarm, carbon monoxide alarm, teeth whitening kit and cycle helmet failed to meet basic safety standards.

Becca Menzies, 44, from Sussex, has told how she transformed a dull area of shrubland into a pristine garden for £1, 300 - using old materials and products ordered cheaply online to keep prices down.

Tens of thousands of Australians have found themselves out of work overnight as COVID-19 continues to destabilise the economy, but some entrepreneurs are discovering new niches.

The 47-year-old rapper - whose real name is Marshall Mathers III - has donated a pair of his highly coveted Jordan 4 Retro 'Carhartt x Eminem' sneakers to shoe auction site StockX.

If January is meant to be the month when you resolve to get your finances in order, then it’s definitely worth thinking about PPI, because the deadline is coming up sooner than you think.

Amazon and American Express have slashed the sign-up bonuses and spending incentives on some of their cards.

If you believe you had loans or credit agreements such as an account with a catalogue company or a long-forgotten credit card – you could be eligible to make a claim for mis-sold PPI.

Households have just one month left to make a PPI claim with their bank or credit provider. And with the clock ticking, PPI sharks have ramped up their campaign to get a chunk of your money.

Mike Weaver, 61, took out several payment protection insurance policies when he set up his radio hiring business in 1991. He recalls being told that he had to buy PPI to get the loans he needed.

The final deadline for making a complaint about payment protection insurance (PPI) is midnight tomorrow (August 29).

The Financial Conduct Authority said many were encouraged by the publicity blitz it launched in the summer of 2019 to warn consumers that they had limited time left to make a complaint.

What is galling for me and many of my fellow Britons due to fly, is quite how awkward airlines are being in allowing us to get our money back.

From working from home to lounging on the couch and binge-watching another Netflix show, the right robe and slippers can make life in quarantine a lot better.

Brian Viner reviews the new Netflix film Extraction starring Chris Hemsworth playing a former 'special ops' soldier, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, now working as a freelance troubleshooter.

Netflix users in the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other European countries were shown the message 'something went wrong' when they tried to sign in. The service is back online.

Jenji Kohan, the creative force behind much-loved shows like Weeds and Orange Is The New Black, is working on a new concept for Netflix which is all about life in its current bizarre circumstance. 

The Duchess of Rutland announced yesterday that her namesake store, the Duchess' Gallery, is now available to shop online as she battles to keep Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire, afloat.

The Gossip Girl actress, 32, is collaborating on the project with filmmaker Shawn Levy, who recently worked with her husband Ryan Reynolds on an upcoming comedy called Free Guy.

The $16.5 billion coal mining project has run into trouble after China's two major state-run banks revealed that they have no plans to finance the venture, according to reports.

Minister R K Singh said most of the states have agreed on 24/7 power for all. 'The consumers should not be asked to pay for theft committed by others,' he added.

'If this family has adopted a breed like a pitbull, then it must be literate enough to handle the aggressive breed,' said Abhinav Srihan, managing trustee of the Fauna Police.

Law enforcement agencies tightened security outside the Diplomatic Enclave, which is home to the US embassy and other foreign missions in Pakistan. This followed a protest against Trump's announcement.

RBI stepped up its awareness drive against con men who trap unsuspecting individuals to part with details of their bank accounts which are then used to siphon out money.

The Chabahar port will eventually provide a transit and Transport Corridor among countries using Port as one of the regional hubs for sea transportation in Iran, writes Harsh V Pant.

The Cabinet has backed a bid to launch the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 in Parliament. It is expected to become a reality after getting clearance from politicians.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi has kept up the tradition of including a signature line associated with the sci-fi franchise.

Six days before Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's (DMRC) Magenta line's take-off, the 'driverless' train crashed through a wall at Kalindi Kunj depot on Tuesday.

The actress, 48, had a picture-perfect moment with her family as she enjoyed a dream come true day visiting the Taj Mahal in the city of Agra on Tuesday.

The forward suffered a hairline fracture to his right fibula in February just after he had recovered from a hairline crack to his foot which he picked up in November.

Premier League clubs have warned their players they must be ready to train at 48 hours' notice amid Government plans to quarantine all arrivals to the UK for up to 14 days.

Frank Lampard also admitted he understands the burning desire to see Premier League action return but insisted it cannot come at the price of putting people's lives further at risk.

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died aged 101 on Monday morning.

According to NASA, the aerospace company didn't perform a full 'end-to-end' integration test of the software designed to automate maneuvers after the craft is launched into space.

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober spent six months planning the stunt with Australian YouTubers How Ridiculous which ended up involving a two-tonne trampoline with 144 garage door springs.

NASA has declined to say whether Starliner will be forced to undergo another test flight before being granted permission to bring human astronauts into space even after a botched mission last year.

NASA shared an image of the Philippines two months after its Taal Volcano erupted -revealing an ash damaged landscape. The area was once a tropical oasis, but now looks more like the moon.

Despite dramatic drops in fumes over cities in Italy, Spain and China it is too early to know if a long-term change has been made in the levels of nitrogen dioxide in quarantined areas.

In his new YouTube video, Mark Rober, 40, sprinkled Glo Germ powder on a third-grade teacher and one of her students to show how germs can spread.

Researchers for the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain, found the urea in urine could be mixed with lunar soil to create a flexible and sustainable 3D printed concrete.

The 'Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally' (VITAL) device passed a critical test at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York on April 21.

Some Chinese auto manufacturers have begun offering new design features they promise will help limit the transmission of bacteria and viruses in their vehicles, including Sars-CoV-2.

Researchers studying a web browser loaded into the company's phones found that it was tracking nearly all of a users' web behavior including visited websites and search queries in Google.