From a coffee that claims to be worth its weight in gold to Hollywood's new upright trend... Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.

- Now he can splash -

A Frenchman has upended the adage that a swimming pool is a hole in the ground that you throw money into.

He discovered $800,000 worth of buried gold bars and coins while digging a pool in the garden of his home in Neuville-sur-Saone, just north of Lyon.

And he has been allowed to keep the treasure, which may have been buried in plastic bags by a previous owner of the house.

- The $1,000 cuppa -

The world's most expensive coffee that sells for nearly $1,000 a cup -- and that's without milk -- has left a bitter taste in the mouth in Dubai.

Serkan Sagsoz, who owns the Julith coffee shop, insists his eye-waterin

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