eBay: Rare Beatrix Potter 50p selling for hundreds – do you have this coin in your wallet?

eBay seller chpa-pch-fywzyta has listed the 50p coin, which they describe as “rare”, for a whopping £249 starting bid. Interested buyers can make an offer if they don’t want to pay quite so much money. The listing is called: “Rare Beatrix Potter 50p – Mr Jeremy Fisher 2017 – Circulated Collectors Coin.” Describing the item, […]

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Charlottesville 1 year after the deadly Unite the Right rally — here’s how the day unfolded

Chris Jones/Business Insider One year after a white-supremacist rally turned violent, ultimately killing Heather Heyer, a Charlottesville local, people gathered to memorialize the one-year anniversary. Last year, a gathering of white nationalists at the Unite the Right rally clashed with counter-protesters. This year, locals and demonstrators came together to honor Heyer, stand in solidarity against […]

Wells Fargo says hundreds lost homes to computing ‘error’

Software mistakes are normally little more than inconveniences, but they had particularly serious consequences for some Wells Fargo customers. An SEC filing from the bank has revealed that a “calculation error” in its mortgage loan modification underwriting tool led to about 625 customers either being denied loan changes or not receiving offers when they would […]

Plans released for 2000 supersonic jets linking hundreds of cities worldwide

Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, said his company will finally make supersonic air travel financially viable. Fares from London to New York, for example, would cost from £2000 one way, which is the same as a business class ticket at the moment. Boom Supersonic is just one of a handful of companies […]

eBay: ‘Rare’ public libraries 50p coin selling for hundreds – do YOU have one?

eBay is full of 50p coins of differing designs, and a recent addition is a 2000 Public Libraries design. Seller ‘terryneuk’ has listed the 50 pence piece for a whopping £200, claiming it is “rare”. Writing in the description, the seller said: “Very Rare Collectable Public Libraries 1850-2000 50p”. This particular design was released in […]

212 people are dead and hundreds more are seriously ill in the largest listeria outbreak in history

Enterprise Foods A food-poisoning outbreak has killed 212 people and sickened hundreds more.  A South African meat-production plant was the root of the listeria outbreak.  The incident is the largest listeria outbreak ever detected, according to the World Health Organization.  A food-poisoning outbreak has killed more than 200 people. 212 people have died in a […]

NSA deletes hundreds of millions of call records over privacy violations

The NSA unfortunately has a long history of violating privacy rules, although this time the agency might not be entirely to blame. The NSA is deleting hundreds of millions of call and text message data records (collected since 2015) after learning of “technical irregularities” that led to receiving records it wasn’t supposed to obtain under […]

Striking photos show demonstration where hundreds of women occupied a US Senate building to protest family separations

More than one thousand women from all over the US marched in the streets and occupied the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday. They were protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policies and calling for the abolition of Immigration Customs and Enforcement. At least 575 women were arrested, according to Capitol police. More than one thousand […]