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"Stegosaurus" skeleton Apex is auctioned for $44.6 million (£34 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, United States, the most ever paid for a fossil.
2024-07-18

Austrian-Canadian billionaire businessman Frank Stronach is arrested on sexual assault charges dating from the 1980s to 2023.
2024-06-7

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's last completed oil painting, "Lady with a Fan", sets a new European art auction record when an unnamed art dealer buys it for £85.3 million (US$108.4M), including the buyer's premium, at Sotheby's in London, UK.
2023-06-27

Sandro Botticelli's "Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel" is sold at auction for $92.2 million at Sotheby's in New York City, making it the second most expensive painting by an old master ever sold at public auction.
2021-01-28

A United Kingdom court blocks a £14 billion class action lawsuit against Mastercard.
2017-07-22

A Catalan official says the 13 exchange students killed in Sunday's accident were 19-to-25-year-old women, seven from Italy, two Germans, an Austrian, a woman from France, a Romanian and an Uzbek. Twenty-four people are being treated in hospital with one student in critical condition, and six people, including the driver, in serious condition. Reports from officials indicate the driver lost control of the coach and crashed to the other side before running into an oncoming car. The bus driver, who passed alcohol and drug tests, is being investigated for possible negligent homicide as police seek to determine the cause of the crash.
2016-03-21

A rare manuscript of an unfinished Jane Austen novel has sold for £993,250 (US$1.6m) in London. The work, "The Watsons", was sold at Sotheby's for three times its estimated price.
2011-07-14

The auction record for a painting by Sir Stanley Spencer is broken twice in quick succession at Sotheby's in London.
2011-06-16

A 450-year-old "Madonna and Child" work sells for $16.9 million at Sotheby's in New York, a new auction record for Titian.
2011-01-28

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "A Day in the Life" sell for $1.2 million at Sotheby's.
2010-06-18