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LUCKY B******! The first winner of a $1million a year for life scratchcard game is already a multimillionaire, it emerged yesterday. London-based banker Keenan Altunis, 33, accepted his New York lottery prize with a shrug and admitted: “Is it going to materially change my life? No, I’ve been a very blessed and fortunate person.” Since [...]
A series of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages – known as an emoticon – has been trademarked in Russia, says a local businessman. Entrepreneur Oleg Teterin said the trademark for the emoticon was granted to him by Russia’s federal patent agency. But critics doubt the trademark’s legal basis as [...]
Millionaire Anwar Rashid, 32, bought Clifton Hall, an estate in Nottinghamshire, England for £3.6 million ($6.84 million) in November 2006, then abandoned the property after only eight months. Rashid said that ghosts, voices and other paranormal activity drove his family from its home. Rashid is now seeking to avoid responsibility for the mortgage he [...]
A couple from Devon are hoping to beat the property slump by raffling off their home. Brian and Wendy Wilshaw are selling the tickets for £25, but the winner could become the new owner of a £1m estate. The 11-acre estate at Morchard Bishop, near Crediton, includes a five-bedroom house, fishing lake and four [...]
Taj Chahal has thrown himself some great birthday bashes. He has rented limos to take his friends to San Francisco. He’s flown to Vegas. This year, for his 29th birthday, Chahal decided to do something a bit different: He hosted a surprise party for 300 total strangers – complete with birthday cake and party favors [...]
A U.S. millionaire plans to revive a zoo and build an amusement park similar to Disneyland in the capital of war-torn Iraq, investing $500 million in the project, a Syrian newspaper said on Monday. Llewelly Werner, head of a little known Los Angeles-based holding company C3 of private equity investors, has acquired a 50-acre (20-hectare) [...]
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Now most of us entrepreneurs may risk some or even all of our money on a business idea and lose it! But imagine when a trader in the Indian state of Bihar has lost his life savings after termites infesting his bank’s safe deposit boxes ate them up. Dwarika Prasad had deposited currency notes [...]
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, which does not command VAT. The UK argued that paying back the [...]
UKpreneur loves a story about domains making big money! A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m (£1.3m) – after maintaining the site for just $20 a year since 1994. Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction. “It’s crazy, it’s just crazy,” Mr [...]
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