Napoleon's sword fetches more than Â£3m
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Its gold-encrusted blade holds the secrets of the young Napoleon, who carried it into one of his legendary, seemingly doomed battles.
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The expected cost of the 2012 Olympics has risen from Â£2.4bn to at least Â£3.3bn, the culture secretary tells MPs.
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A Stradivarius violen worth around 2.5m euros ($3.4m) is returned to its owner in Vienna after its theft last month.
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The Spanish galleon San Jose was trying to outrun a fleet of British warships off Colombia's coast on June 8, 1708, when a mysterious explosion sent it to the bottom of the sea with gold, silver and emeralds now valued at more than $2 billion.
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A rare copy of the Magna Carta is sold for Â£10.6m ($21.3m) in an auction at Sotheby's in New York.
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The Fortis financial group pays 13m euros ($18m) at a pioneer auction for the rights to emit 800,000 tonnes of CO2.
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LONDON -- A Saudi prince received millions of dollars for his own use as part of Britain's largest arms deal, the British Broadcasting Corp. said.
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A model of the Starship Enterprise sells for more than Â£300,000 at Christie's in New York.
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By Daniel Thomson  It is very rare land goes on sale in Northumberland for as little as pounds 85,000, but this particular plot is very special ( it has a river running through it.
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A rare watercolour painting by sculpture Modigliani sells for Â£423,000 at an auction in London.
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Â£5bn spent in third quarter Over â¬5bn was spent on mergers and acquisitions involving Irish firms in the third quarter, with tech-related M&amp;As among the most valuable deals.â¦
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A Saudi prince received secret payments from the UK's biggest arms dealer, a BBC investigation reveals.
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The ship Calypso, from which Captain Cousteau conducted expeditions made famous in cinema and television documentaries, got a new owner and new lease of life when Loel Guinness sold it for a symbolic one euro.
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The investment firm reported strong third-quarter earnings.
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A rare mint condition First Folio  edition of William Shakespeare&#039;s plays fetched 2.8 million  pounds (&#36;5.2 million) at an auction on Thursday.
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Overcoming ordinary reviews, comic adventure National Treasure found quite a fortune across North America, digging up an estimated $35 million in three days.
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A hand-written and illustrated tale of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched 1.95 million  pounds ($3.98 million) -- nearly 40 times its expected price --  at auction on Thursday.