An “ordinary” Chinese porcelain vase has sold for €7.7million (A$11.6 million) – almost 4,000 times its valued price of €2,000 – after a bidding war erupted among buyers convinced it was a rare 18th-century artefact. Condolences to the not-so-lucky winner…

British artist Sam Cox has finished a major project – doodling on his home. Instead of marking shapes on a notepad during a phone call like everyone else, he’s covered the house inside and out. All it took was hundreds of litres of black and white paint and 2,296 pen nibs…

You may have heard of Morris dancing – a peculiar form of English folk dancing that is traditionally only done by men. But a dance group in Exeter is allowing women to join for the first time. They really needed the numbers…