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A fascinating piece of history is about to go under the hammer in Montevideo as an auction house announces the upcoming sale of a letter written by a Uruguayan passenger aboard the infamous Titanic. With bidding set to start at $16,440, this artefact offers a rare glimpse into the world of the ill-fated luxury liner, reported AFP.

Sotheby's (a British-founded American multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City) is preparing to auction off a rare, strikingly rosy-purple diamond known as the 'Eternal Pink', which is valued at $35 million, as part of its Magnificent Jewels sale in New York in June.  With the highest pre-auction price per carat estimate ever, Sotheby's is promoting the 10.57-carat stone as the most priceless purplish-pink diamond ever brought to auction.

An auction site in southern France plunged into chaos after a local Gabonese community held protest against the auction of a 19th-century wooden carved mask that was sold for 4.2 million euros (US $ $4.6 million). Activists in Montpellier disrupted the auction on Saturday saying that whoever bought the mask was receiving stolen goods. The rare wooden “Ngil” mask is used in ceremonies by the Fang ethnic people of Gabon.

Three people have been arrested following an investigation into an app that apparently seemed to demean Muslim women by using their morphed pictures for an online fake auction. While there was no actual ‘auction’ or ‘sale’ taking, the purpose of the app seemed to be to humiliate and intimidate the targeted women, many of whom are active social media users. The action was taken following multiple complaints from prominent women who claimed that their morphed photos were used on an open so...