Pen drive icon doesn't disappear

Hi there,
I renamed a pen drive icon on desktop from "NO NAME" to another name by holding the mouse arrow on its name. Since then I cannot eject it.
I removed the pen drive and the icon is still there. Getting its info I see in the icon image area the rotating star looking for something continuously.
The icon is not listed in the finder.
How can I remove it?

Sorry, I wrote the last message in a bit of a rush.
I had the same issue when I used MFE in that
I'd receive an email - resulting in the new messages icon.
I'd read the message on my remote system (and the read status would get synced to the phone), after which I could not get rid of the new message icon
In order to get rid of the icon you need to read an unread message, so my work around was to mark any message as unread (using the phone), then immediately read it, which cleared the icon.
It's been a while since I used MfE to I'm not sure what would happen if you also deleted the emails using outlook so that there were no messages at all in the inbox.

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