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A tonne of man-made "jellyfish" has been seized by China's police, adding a new ingredient to the country's long recipe of fake foods.

• 11 мая 2016, 18:55

Facebook Argentina was ordered to pay a firefighter one million pesos for failing to comply with an order to delete insulting fake profiles of the plaintiff.

• 03 декабря 2014, 13:24

A Chinese museum has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake, state-run media said on Thursday.

• 23 мая 2014, 09:57

Renowned wine collector Rudy Kurniawan forged some of the finest vintages in the world, a series of French experts told his New York fraud trial Thursday.

• 13 декабря 2013, 18:04

Star Indonesian-born wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan went on trial in New York Monday, accused of blending ordinary wines into fake vintages in his California kitchen to sell to wealthy collectors.

• 10 декабря 2013, 13:35

Celebrity Chicago chef Charlie Trotter was sued Thursday for allegedly selling two collectors a large bottle of wine that was supposedly highly valuable but in fact was a fake.

• 14 июня 2013, 18:32

Africa, India and other developing countries are awash in fake or sub-standard drugs for tuberculosis, fuelling the rise of treatment-resistant strains of TB.

• 05 февраля 2013, 16:48

Implicated by the wand of a "bogus" bomb detector, Hassan became one of hundreds detained in Thailand's insurgency-racked south because of equipment that experts say is useless.

• 13 сентября 2012, 11:06

Scientists on Wednesday reported they had invented an invisible tag using the widely-used "quick response" code to help thwart banknote forgers and criminals who sell bogus drugs or fake vintage wine.

• 12 сентября 2012, 12:24

Canada's crackdown on immigration fraud has unwittingly snared a Portuguese man living in the country for 32 years who said Tuesday he is being deported over an administrative gaffe.

• 08 августа 2012, 18:22

A young star of American journalism has acknowledged he concocted quotes from Bob Dylan in his best-selling biography of the American folk legend.

• 31 июля 2012, 12:20

The New York Times, which famously insists on the accuracy of its reports, was red faced Sunday after being fooled by a hacker's posting of an online editorial under the name of ex-boss Bill Keller.

• 30 июля 2012, 16:58

An American fugitive who has been missing and "wanted" since he deserted the US Air Force in 1984 has turned up in Sweden where he has been living under a under a new identity for nearly three decades.

• 20 июля 2012, 12:29

Global policing body Interpol announced Tuesday a pioneering initiative to crack down on trade in fake goods, using an app developed with the help of search giant Google.

• 19 июля 2012, 10:21

Australians have been fleeced out of more than Aus$113 million (US$115 million) in the last five years by complex fake investment schemes run by overseas criminal gangs.

• 09 июля 2012, 19:07

North Korea may have put fake versions of a new missile on display at a major military parade this year, UN sanctions experts said in a report.

• 01 июля 2012, 10:04

A Pavlodar citizen was apprehended in suspicion of running of an underground shop for production and sales of counterfeit notes.

• 11 апреля 2012, 14:46