The only car the late Pope John Paul II ever owned sold at auction for $680,000 (383,445 pounds) on Saturday to a Houston attorney and car collector.
The car, which fetched much less than previous estimates of $2 million to $5 million, attracted four or five bids before being purchased by John O’Quinn, said a spokeswoman […]

In December, the New York Public Library is moving ahead with the sale of two portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, and 16 other paintings.
The sales are going ahead despite universal criticism of the NYPL when it sold Asher B Durand’s Kindred Spirits, a classic of the Hudson River School, to a Wal-Mart heiress […]

The government is looking into whether eBay sellers in Gulf Coast states are trying to profit from military foodstuffs handed out for free following hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.
Representatives for eBay, the online auctioneer company, say it is impossible to prove that any of the meals were meant for hurricane victims. They note […]

A london couple have been found guilty of deception and money laundering after a two year Ebay fraud, during which they made more than £300′000, and bought a BMW and a flat in Forest Gate.
Nicolae Cretanu, 30, and his wife Adriana, 23 worked for crime bosses in romania, offering non-exisen items for sale on the […]

One of the world’s most famous cars, the turquoise Ford Anglia used in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has been stolen from outside a Cornwall film studio.
Devon and Cornwall police said they were keeping an open mind about whether the car was stolen to order […]