A spectacular golden wreath dating back to the 4th Century BC is due to go on display at the National Archaeology Museum in Greece.
The Macedonian wreath was returned to Athens at the weekend by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Greece fought for 10 years to prove that it had been illegally spirited out of the [...]

European Union finance chiefs on Tuesday agreed to plans to ease cross-borde payments by credit and debit cards as well as electronic bank transfers across the 27-member bloc.
They also warned that economic recovery in the EU was threatened by internal economic imbalances in some member states.
Under the new payment rules, consumers will [...]

A subsidiary of the state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft on Tuesday bought at auction a 9.44% share in Rosneft that had been owned by the bankrupt oil giant OAO Yukos.
The hammer price was 197.8 billion rubles ($7.6 billion). The bidding went through 10 steps before the RN-Razvitiye company won the auction.
The other bidder was TNK-BP, [...]

A Bulgarian woman has been arrested and charged with participating in a scheme that used eBay to scam Americans out of at least $350,000. Her alleged fraud is similar to dozens of scams found on the auction site daily.
Mariyana Feliksova Lozanova, a.k.a. “Gentiane La France,” a.k.a. “Naomi Elizabeth DeBont,” was indicted for conspiracy to commit [...]

TNK-BP on Friday unveiled last-minute plans to bid for Yukos’ stake in Rosneft up for auction this week, while BP chiefs met with President Vladimir Putin in an effort to ease increasing tensions over the British oil major’s Russian projects.
The meeting between Putin, BP CEO Lord Browne and Browne’s anointed successor, Tony Hayward, comes as [...]

A collection of historic Ferraris will go up for auction at Maranello on 20 May, when they’re likely to change hands for millions of pounds.
RM Auctions and Sotheby’s are to run the sale, which will include over 100 lots of memorabilia from Ferrari’s own archives, as well as some remarkable cars.

Blasting the “immoral opportunism” of Western banks’ and energy firms’ participation in the upcoming controversial auctions of Yukos Oil Company assets in Russia, attorney for political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky has called for a Congressional investigation.
Attorney Robert Amsterdam called for protests to senior management and an investigation following news reports that Citibank, ABN AMRO, Goldman Sachs, [...]

A water colour depicting a city scene of Vienna by German dictator Adolf Hitler was sold Tuesday at a Norwegian auction, news reports said.
Painted before World War I, the water colour fetched 180,000 kroner (29,300 dollars) at the auction in the west coast city of Bergen, the Bergens Tidende newspaper said.
No bids were [...]

PayPal, the online payments unit of auction website eBay , said on Tuesday it has nearly 35 million customer accounts in Europe, about a quarter of all its accounts.
In 2006, PayPal processed $8.4 billion (4.3 billion pounds) of payments in Europe, representing around 22 percent of its worldwide total of $37.8 billion.
PayPal previously only disclosed [...]

One of the medals awarded to a player in Roscommon’s first All-Ireland Football title has fetched €20,000 at auction.
The 9ct GAA celtic cross style medal was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at auction in Dublin this afternoon.
The 1943 All-Ireland win was the first of a two in a row for the County team which [...]