A human-sized Labubu figurine sells for over $150,000 at auction in Beijing.

The event held by Yongle International Auction, which traditionally specializes in modern and contemporary art as well as jewellery, marked the first ever auction dedicated to Labubu, the toothy little monsters mainly sold by China's toy company Pop Mart, that have been at the center of a global frenzy for the past year.

Offering 48 lots for sale, it was attended in person by roughly 200 people, while over a thousand bidders put down offers via Yongle's mobile app, the auction house said. The starting price for all the items started at zero and it eventually raised a total of 3.73 million yuan.

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New Zealand legislators voted Thursday, June 5, to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and her colleagues from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, are barred for 21 days.

Three days had been the longest ban from New Zealand’s Parliament before.

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This is the moment an Air India flight bound for London crashed shortly after take-off.

The Boeing 787 departed Ahmedabad Airport at 1.39 p.m. local time and crashed minutes later in a residential area. More than 240 people were on board, with Air India confirming 53 were British nationals.

According to flight tracking service Flightradar24, the aircraft, carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members, lost signal just seconds after leaving the runway. Authorities have yet to confirm the cause of the crash.

London Gatwick confirmed the flight was due to arrive later today.

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Real Madrid unveil England defender Trent Alexander-Arnold ahead of the Club World Cup in the United States.

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Donald Trump says he is unbothered by actors boycotting his attendance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center Wednesday night (11 June).

 

Several ‘Les Mis’ cast members are expected to sit out the performance fundraiser after news broke that the president would be in the audience.

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An Air India flight headed for London Gatwick with more than 240 people on board crashed in India shortly after takeoff on Thursday.

The plane plummeted into a residential area after leaving an airport in the western city of Ahmedabad, local police said.

Footage from the scene showed huge clouds of black smoke billowing from the crash site and part of the body of the Boeing 787 aircraft on a building, while other images show emergency services working to douse the wreckage and surrounding buildings.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to make light of the contributions made by America’s NATO allies during the war in Afghanistan at a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday.

Hegseth joked that the ISAF acronym on their shoulder patches — which stood for International Security Assistance Force — really stood for, “I saw Americans fighting.”

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President Donald Trump was greeted with boos as he took his seat for the opening night of a new production of Les Miserables at the revamped Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening.

There were also chants of “USA! USA!” as a tuxedoed Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance, Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, adviser Corey Lewandowski, and MAGA activist Laura Loomer took their seats for the show.

This was the president’s first appearance at the prestigious arts venue since he fired its leadership and appointed loyalist Richard Grenell as the institution's new leader, also naming himself chairman.

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Elon Musk has expressed his regret over his war of words with President Donald Trump, backing down after less than a week and conceding that “some” of his X posts attacking the commander-in-chief “went too far.”

The world’s richest man said he "regrets some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,”

Musk claimed, without concrete evidence, the US president appeared in files relating to the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein in a post on his social media platform, as he traded blows with his former colleague in the most public dramatic row we've seen this year.

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