The bottom line

£2.3bn

The fine the government has paid to the European Union, because HMRC had failed to check the impossibly low valuations put on Chinese consignments of clothing and shoes arriving in the UK over six years, while Britain was still an EU member.

€74,000

The cost of two years’ schooling for Princess Sofía, the youngest daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, at UWC Atlantic College in Wales. Her older sister, Princess Leonor, will be leaving the school after the summer.

$3.8bn

The record-high value of cryptocurrency stolen from around the world last year, up from $3.3bn in 2021, according to a report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. North Korean hackers are thought to have stolen the most – $1.7bn in 2022.

£4.4bn

How much of taxpayers’ money has been paid to British banks to cover defaults and fraud related to the £77bn in state-guaranteed loans made to struggling businesses during the pandemic lockdowns, according to official data.

€99

The price of a currywurst for two at the Currywurst Bar in Nuremberg, Germany – the highest price for the dish in the country. The luxury version of the traditional sausage in curry sauce is served with caviar and oysters, and surpasses the €23 offering from the Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin. A survey last month showed more Germans would now rather tuck into a doner kebab.

$16bn

The total of legal and illegal bets 30 million Americans were predicted to make on the outcome of this year’s Super Bowl last Sunday, up two-thirds on last year, according to the American Gaming Association’s survey of 2,200 adults. The Kansas City Chiefs (Patrick Mahomes is pictured) beat the Philadephia Eagles 38-35 in the American football season’s finale in Arizona.