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Suspects arrested over theft of jewels at Louvre museum in Paris
Two suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum, French media say. The Paris prosecutor’s office said one of the men had been taken into custody as he was preparing to take a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport. Items worth €88m (£76m; $102m) were taken from the…
See Kim Kardashian’s Jaw-Dropping Faceless Look at Academy Museum Gala
Kim Kardashian is breaking the internet yet again. Indeed, the Kardashians star made waves with her 2025 Academy Museum Gala look Oct. 18, attending the event in a Maison Margiela couture nude look—complete with a mask that covered her entire face. However, Kim revealed that despite her technically faceless look, she was still in full…
Tariff troubles: A rubber duck museum is migrating to Canada to stay afloat
By Martha Ann Overland If you had to pick just one place to take the temperature of relations between the U.S. and Canada right now, consider The Rubber Duck Museum in Point Roberts, Wash. The museum is located in a small U.S. town attached to Canada, not the U.S. mainland. The only way to drive…
New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing Videos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in recent days show the extent of…
Tiny Nigerian museum marking a forgotten British invasion pushes for recognition
Museum in Koko, Niger Delta, commemorates important exiled merchant prince Nanna Olomu – but it has no cooling and a termite issue In the sleepy Nigerian port town of Koko, the reminder of a forgotten invasion by the British more than a century ago has itself been forgotten. A statue of Nanna Olomu, the Nigerian…