A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $6.2m (£4.9m) at an auction in New York.

Americans distraught by the re-election of Donald Trump are being offered an escape route - a €1 house in an Italian village.

An Egyptian mug from 2,000 years ago was last used to serve up a cocktail of psychedelic drugs, according to ground-breaking research.

Police in Lincolnshire have urged motorists to stop chasing an on-the-run emu in off-road vehicles.

A Swedish minister's phobia of bananas has led officials to insist rooms are free of the fruit ahead of any meeting or visit, according to reports.

A Scottish couple who lost their cat were left "shocked" when it turned up 300 miles away in Coventry.