news.bbc.co.uk - The UK Treasury is facing a £3.5m bill, because of VAT wrongly imposed on a Marks and Spencer teacake, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.

Customers paid VAT for 20 years before the authorities accepted the product was a cake,... (Read More)

www.davesdaily.com - ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Car cleaners at a Russian firm got a surprise when they cleaned out a vacuum cleaner this week: a diamond pendant worth up to 300,000 euros ($475,400).

"I didn't know how much it was worth at first so I ... (Read More)

www.politicalgateway.com - ZHENGZHOU, China, April 10 (UPI) -- A Chinese woman said her pet bird, a gray myna named Mao Mao, successfully frightened away two robbers with her realistic imitation of a police siren.

The bird's owner, known only as Yuan, said Mao Mao... (Read More)

www.politicalgateway.com - LONDON, April 10 (UPI) -- An outraged British butcher said he may move his business after authorities ordered him to stop chopping meat before 8 a.m. because it is too noisy.

Brian Clapton, 51, who said he is "the last English-style butc... (Read More)

www.davesdaily.com - It was a tempting sight for struggling landscaper Eli Estrada: a bag filled with $140,000 on a Cerritos street.

There was his credit card debt, upcoming wedding and making ends meet with his artificial grass and landscaping business. (Read More)