The Pope's Skoda is being donated to a homeless hub.
THE CAR USED by Pope Francis during his visit to Ireland is being donated to the Crosscare charity’s Mater Dei homeless hub staff. The Catholic charity says that it “provides a range of social care community and worth work services” and its homeless hub falls under that umbrella.
China looks set to scrap its two-child policy by 2020.
China APPEARS POISED to scrap its two-child policy, with a state-run newspaper citing a draft civil code that would overhaul decades of controversial family-planning rules. The wide-ranging code would end a policy that has been enforced through fines but was also notorious for cases of forced abortions and sterilisation in the world’s most populous country.
The ‘most beautiful ship in the world.
It’s the latest time the three-decked square rigger the only one left in the world has visited Portsmouth, with her last stopover in 2012. And people in Portsmouth will be given a chance to step onboard the 270ft vessel at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard this weekend.
This rare 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO to become the most expensive car ever bought at auction
Say hello to the most expensive car ever to be sold at auction. This 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO just one of 36 in existence sold for a record-breaking $48,405,000 (£37.5m) at RM Sotheby's Monterey sale in California at the weekend. Dubbed the Holy Grail of collectable cars, it eclipsed the previous record also held by a Ferrari 250 GTO made in the same year of $38.1 million (£29.5m) to take the title of the most valuable motor to go under the hammer.
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