Midnight Red Barbie doll sets world auction record
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Barbie in Midnight Red, dating from   1965, sold for a world record 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on Tuesday   as collectors from around the world gathered to bid for a piece   of a unique private collection of 4,000 Barbie family dolls.
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The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million.
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A 50-year-old painting by Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon set an auction record for his work on Thursday when it was sold at Christie's for 14.02 million pounds ($27.56 million).
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Christie's is eyeing to break its HK$1.2 billion ($154.2 million) Asia sales record next week when it auctions artworks and jewelry from a region that is all the rage with wealthy international and Chinese buyers.
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A license plate with nothing but the number "1" on it went for a record $14 million at a charity auction Saturday.
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Hundreds of items related to the Rev. Jerry Falwell have been put up for sale on eBay since the televangelist's death two weeks ago, including an autographed bobblehead doll that went for $145.
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After experiencing an initial shortage of T.M.X. Elmo, one of the hottest toys this year, Wal-Mart announced Tuesday that it has landed the Elmo jackpot and will sell 4,000 dolls every day this week on its Web site.
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A new doll hitting retail shelves is familiar in many ways, but this Barbie is a roundabout way of charging for online content.
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Shares of Internet Auction Co., South Korea&#39;s largest online auctioneer, rose by the 12 percent limit to a record after parent EBay Inc.
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LONDON - Three-year-old Jack Neal loves cars: so much so, that while his mother's back was turned he bought a Barbie-pink Nissan Figaro for nearly $16,000 on eBay.
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By Anna Jeys  TAKE That tickets were up for sale on eBay today for up to 8 TIMES their actual price - moments after the NEC completely sold out in just 30 minutes.
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Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run ball was auctioned Saturday for $752,467, well more than the estimates by memorabilia experts.
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A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $4 million at auction Thursday.
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NZ simulacrum hits NZ$26k Bidding on a Virgin Mary pebble simulacrum picked up on a New Zealand beach had this morning reached a rather silly NZ$26,700 on Trade Me after the owner declared she wouldn't take less that NZ50k for the mineralogical marvel.â¦
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A Malaysian woman has broken a world record by spending 32 days in a glass box with more than 6,000 scorpions, her sponsor claimed on Tuesday.
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Recordings of four songs by a  12-year-old girl who later became Judy Garland did not sell at  auction on Sunday when bidders failed to reach the required  minimum bid.
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A rare piece by renowned Chinese artist Xu Beihong has smashed the record for a Chinese oil painting, selling for HK$53.9 million (US$6.9 million) at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong on Sunday.