A 32-foot thresher shark believed to be the biggest ever caught was sold for £250 at auction in Cornwall today and may now be stuffed and put on display.

A 32-foot thresher shark believed to be the biggest ever caught was sold for £250 at auction in Cornwall today and may now be stuffed and put on display.

In an ambitious push to extend President Hugo Chávez's revolutionary ideology, the Venezuelan government's draft 2008 budget includes more than $250 million to finance pro-Chávez groups and ''anti-imperialist'' movements in the United States, Central and South America and Mexico.

THE only known surviving copy of a newspaper briefly published in Aberdeen more than 250 years ago is to go on public display as part of a new exhibition marking 500 years of Scottish printing.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Soccer star David Beckham should make $250 million from his five-year deal with Los Angeles Galaxy, the commissioner of U.S. Major League Soccer said on Wednesday, as he outlined plans for expansion.

About 250,000 people have lost their National Health Service dentist since the reform of the system, new figures show.

DROPPING a £20 note in the collection plate can often raise a few eyebrows in church. So the gasps of astonishment when a minister announced that his Kirk had been left more than £250,000 are not hard to imagine.

DROPPING a £20 note in the collection plate can often raise a few eyebrows in church. So the gasps of astonishment when a minister announced that his Kirk had been left more than £250,000 are not hard to imagine.

An Indianapolis couple has given $250,000 to Butler University's capital campaign and directed the money to sports facility improvements. Keith and Tina Burks' gift is the largest given to the sports department under the campaign, Athletic Director Barry Collier said in a news release.