US news This article is more than 3 years oldDel Monte $20 bill set to sell for nearly $60,000 – barring banana skinsThis article is more than 3 years oldRare printing error – or creative addition by bored employee – makes 2004 banknote a collector’s item, auctioneer says
Officially, it is classified as “an obstructed printing error with retained obstruction”. In reality, it appears to be a simple slip-up.
A $20 banknote which had a sticker from a bunch of bananas attached to it before it was overprinted with security numbering is now up for auction at a Texas dealer, the rare error elevating its worth to $57,500, almost 3,000 times its face value. Read More...
Gardening blogGardensDon't be a sapThe native wood spurge makes a pretty garden plant, but take care, it has a sticky secret, writes Andy ByfieldMy local woodlands are surging into growth as I write this, at the equinox. Enough warmth has filtered through to the forest floor to catalyse the primroses into action, and they are now in good flower (this is Devon, after all). And the squeaky- shiny leaves of the bluebell, our nation's favourite flower, are a promise of things to come. Read More...
Michael Tomasky's blogBarack ObamaGaddafi's letter to ObamaObama should answer his letter and call his bluff. Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/ReutersThe American right will undoubtedly have a lot of fun with the way Gaddafi opens his letter to Obama:
"To our son, his excellency, Mr Barack Hussein Obama. I have said to you before, that even if Libya and the United States of America enter into a war, god forbid, you will always remain a son. Read More...