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LOS ANGELES—Rudolph and his still-shiny nose are getting a new home, and it's bound to be a lot nicer than the Island of Misfit Toys. The soaring reindeer and Santa ...

A rare 1623 book that brought together William Shakespeare's plays for the first time sold for a record ...

HONG KONG—A 700-year-old Chinese painted scroll from the Yuan Dynasty fetched 306.6 million Hong Kong dollars ($41.8 million) ...

Ten cents won't buy much in the 21st century, but an extremely rare 125-year-old U.S. dime sold at ...

For an elderly woman from Compiègne, northern France, an appraisal of her home unveiled far more than cobweb-covered ...

A woman in Paris has discovered a masterpiece painting in her kitchen from the Renaissance period done by great 13th-century ...

A pair of sneakers decorated with a controversial flag is fetching thousands of dollars on auction websites because ...

A giant cassowary bird known for its sharp, dagger-like claws is set to be auctioned off after killing ...

A man bought the old photo for $2—but it turned out to be worth millions. The value skyrocketed ...

BOSTON—Letters written behind bars by notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have sold for as much as $1,430 ...

A Japanese restaurant chain paid over three million dollars (333.6 million yen) on Saturday, Jan. 5, in a ...

NEW YORK—The auctioneer has been smiling and now he speaks slowly. He knows the big moment has arrived. ...

LONDON—Stephen Hawking was a cosmic visionary, a figure of inspiration and a global celebrity. His unique status is ...

One of the world's most sought-after whiskies, a 60-year old The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926, was auctioned for ...

Golden Globe awards and Oscar certificates won by Robin Williams are going up for auction in October, along ...

NEW YORK—More than 30 dresses and accessories worn on stage by Aretha Franklin are going up for auction. ...

A diamond dubbed "the diamond of a lifetime" is set to be auctioned at Sotheby's auction house on June ...

Why don't you leave suburbia for once—come and see me—either here—or at the Cape next week or in ...

The 1109-carat beast was discovered in 2015 by Lucara Diamond Corporation in Botswana, according to Sotheby's.

NEW YORK—The humble chair J.K. Rowling sat on while writing the first two books of the Harry Potter ...

Chinese citizens are buying Zhang Zihao’s pictures and expressing their sympathies on social media.

Sotheby's says a rare blue diamond has sold for a record 48.6 million Swiss francs ($48.5 million) at ...

When he wasn't busy scribbling out the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein seems to have spent a fair ...

Algerians aren't impressed.