Civets indulge on only the most exquisite coffee cherries, and excrete the partly eaten beans. The beans are then cultivated and the coffee sold all the way up to $600 per pound.
The American village used to portray District 12 in the film version of The Hunger Games is going up for sale, and will be sold for at least $1.2 million (?759,000) in July.
A small boy has fun with his grandfather. Poppa tells how, at 17, he lied about his age so that he could join the army. Looking at an old photo album, they talk about the soldier’s feelings—proud as a peacock in uniform.
123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
Solving an old maritime mystery, cognitive psychologists used the testimony of German soldiers, long thought to be contrived, to locate the wreck of the HMAS Sydney.
Solving an old maritime mystery, cognitive psychologists used the testimony of German soldiers, long thought to be contrived, to locate the wreck of the HMAS Sydney.
This 1941 painting, sold at auction for $95.2 million, is a large luminous Cubist-style portrait of Dora Maar, Picasso's most mysterious and challenging lover.
Touted as the next must-have vehicle for U.S. soldiers in warzones, this contraption can handle any kind of terrain at high speed --ideal for reconnaissance, rescue, and recovery.
In an act of unspeakable horror, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in France was massacred by German soldiers during World War II. Its ruins still stand today as a memorial.
Classic "drip" picture is believed to have become the world's most expensive painting after it was sold in America by the Hollywood entertainment mogul David Geffen for $140 million (?75 million).
A French chateau that once belonged to African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa has been sold at auction for 915,000 euros (?760,000). It will cost three times as much to fully refurbish it.
A French chateau that once belonged to African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa has been sold at auction for 915,000 euros (?760,000). It will cost three times as much to fully refurbish it.
The first Apple computer, introduced in 1976, with a fully assembled motherboard and described as a "historic relic," will be sold at a London auction.