Norway's Royal Palace was put up for sale on auction site eBay late on Wednesday night, with a starting bid of one dollar. The last bid for the Oslo palace, seen at 1 am on Thursday morning, stood at $99,999,999 with an auction deadline of March 14.

Australian prostitutes, who legally sell sex in brothels enjoy a higher level of job satisfaction than those who work illegally, selling sex on the streets or in their home, a new survey suggests. The survey, involving nearly 250 prostitutes, found that legal prostitutes (brothel-based) have similar levels of job satisfaction, physical health and mental well-being as other working women who have more professional jobs.

A painting by a Norwegian man who pasted bills equivalent to $16,300 to the canvas was stolen from the gallery where it was displayed over the weekend, Oslo's MGM Gallery said Monday. The robbers broke into the gallery overnight Saturday by smashing a window and cut all the cash out of the canvas. After they left only the frame that formerly housed artist Jan Christensen's 6. 5-by-13-foot painting "Relative Value" remained.

A painting by a Norwegian man who pasted bills equivalent to $16,300 to the canvas was stolen from the gallery where it was displayed over the weekend, Oslo's MGM Gallery said Monday. The robbers broke into the gallery overnight Saturday by smashing a window and cut all the cash out of the canvas. After they left only the frame that formerly housed artist Jan Christensen's 6. 5-by-13-foot painting "Relative Value" remained.

Joan Martinek Barnes of Iowa never imagined in her wildest dreams that she would get back the wallet she lost 60 years ago in high school. It was a pleasant surprise for Barnes when a building engineer found her lost wallet this week while tracking down a broken water pipe. Barnes, 75, who now lives in San Antonio, recalls losing her wallet when her coat was stolen at McKinley High School in Cedar Rapids in the late 1940s. AP quotes her as saying, "I don't remember all those details. I just remember Mr. Paxson (the principal) got the coat back. I didn't have many coats. "