Royal titles to benefit a cause are now for sale: for $180,000, one can become a duke or duchess. The cheapest title is a knighthood, for only $40,000. The titles are sold online through Nobility. co. uk by David Howe, aka King David of the Isle of Man.

An 81-year-old bottle of Scotch was auctioned at New York's first liquor auction since Prohibition and was sold for $54,000. The auction was held at Christie's sale of wines and spirits and an anonymous collector bought the pricey potable on Saturday.

A Royal Air Force fighter jet on a routine flight has accidentally dropped a 14kg practice bomb on Scotland Monday. The RAF said it has no idea whether the device survived the fall and have yet to locate the bomb. Nevertheless, it is warning the public against touching it.

Fearing a chemical attack, police did everything to evacuate a busy London street, only to find out later the cause of the commotion: A Thai restaurant's spicy chilli sauce. Local police had to close off three roads and evacuated homes as a mysterious cloud of acrid smoke hovered over the streets of Soho for three hours.

A 157-year-old whisky sold for more than $59,200 in Glasgow on Friday, making it possibly the most expensive Scotch ever auctioned in the world. The Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850, was sold at McTear's auctioneers in Scotland for 29,400 pounds to an anonymous telephone bidder, the Agence France-Presse reported.