The bottom line

$2.9m

What Napoleon Bonaparte’s dress sword, along with five of his pistols, sold for through the Rock Island Auction Company in Illinois, USA. Napoleon wore the sword during the coup in 1799 that brought him to power.

€150m

How much the Dutch government has set aside to buy The Standard Bearer, a 1636 self-portrait by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The museum will contribute a further €10m and the Rembrandt Association will add €15m.

£2,400

The selling price for a scribbled self-portrait by David Bowie, drawn by the late singer in the early 1990s for the charity Save The Children, at auction with Parker Fine Art Auctions, in Surrey. Another doodle by former England cricketer David Gower fetched just £25.

£7,347

The average yearly rent that students are paying for halls of residence, up 60% from a decade ago, and more than the average maintenance loan of £6,900, says the National Union of

Students and charity Unipol. In London, the average rent for student rooms is £10,857.

£1,013

The typical total cost of taking the various Covid-19 tests required for a British family of four – comprising two adults and two single-jabbed teenagers – to visit the French Alps, flying via Geneva, for a skiing holiday this Christmas, says The Times.

$4.1m

The “mediocre” opening-day US box office takings last Friday for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, starring Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler (pictured), says Forbes. The $100m remake of the classic musical took a further $6.4m on Saturday and Sunday to top the US charts in a quiet week.