It sold for $120,000 (£91,300) just last week - but the artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has now been scoffed.

Performance artist David Datuna posted videos online showing himself peeling the fruit from the wall and consuming it in front of scores of onlookers at the Art Basel Miami Beach exhibition on Saturday.

Entitled Hungry Artist, he

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Alone and frightened by an electricity blackout, a shoeless five-year-old child carried her younger sibling half a mile to a neighbour's house in -35C (-31F).

Alaska state troopers were called after welfare concerns were raised for the two children in Venetie, a village in the northwestern American state.

The five-year-old and 18-month-old arrived

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A Saudi student who gunned down three sailors at a Florida navy base had hosted a dinner earlier in the week to watch videos of mass shootings, a US official has said.

Mohammed Alshamrani also appeared to have posted criticism of US wars and quoted 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden on social media hours before the attack.

The 21-year-old airman, who

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President Donald Trump says North Korea's leader "has too much to lose" to act in a hostile way, after the secretive state's latest military test.

Kim Jong Un is believed to have ordered the "very important" test at its Sohae satellite launch site, a rocket testing ground that US officials once said the country had promised to close.

North Korean

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Anthony Joshua has beaten Andy Ruiz Jr on a unanimous points decision in their world heavyweight title rematch in Saudi Arabia.

Victory saw the British fighter reclaim the IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO belts he lost to his Mexican-American opponent in New York in June.

The hotly-anticipated bout on the outskirts of the capital Riyadh was threatened by delay

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The next 10 years are crucial to combat declining ocean oxygen levels which are threatening sealife and could "jeopardise humankind", experts have warned.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) report, the biggest study of its kind, says oxygen loss can mainly be blamed on pollution and climate change.

Some of the study's

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