Category : Culture
Flooding in Brazil: then and now – in pictures
Devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul state have about left 90 dead with survivors seeking food and shelter Brazil flooding death toll rises to...
Drake’s security guard ‘seriously injured’ in shooting at Toronto mansion
Guard was shot inside Drake’s home and had serious but non-life-threatening injuries, while the assailant fled in a vehicle A security guard at the mansion...
‘Magical moment’ as fire-ravaged Brazil museum receives big fossil donation
Collection of more than 1,000 fossils including rare dinosaurs given to National Museum in Rio six years after devastating blaze Nearly six years after it...
Free Madonna concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach
Area around Rio de Janeiro beach filled for several blocks as singer closes her Celebration world tour More than a million people have thronged Brazil’s...
Dorset auction house withdraws Egyptian human skulls from sale
MP says trade in remains is ‘gross violation of human dignity’, as skulls from Pitt Rivers collection removed An auction house has withdrawn 18 ancient...
Harry Styles stalker jailed for sending him 8,000 cards in a month
Myra Carvalho sentenced to 14 weeks’ imprisonment and banned from seeing singer perform A woman who stalked Harry Styles has been jailed and banned from...
Fox bones at ancient burial site suggest animal may have been kept as pet
Clues at Argentina site raise possibility mammal was buried with human owners about 1,500 years ago The remains of a fox unearthed at a human...
Surge of interest in Ethiopian culture boosts case for return of treasures, says Sissay
Poet who is curating country’s first Venice Biennale pavilion says ‘part of the heart’ of the country was looted and is being held in museums...
British Museum investigated over Ethiopian artefacts hidden from view for 150 years
Watchdog examining claims key details have not been disclosed about altar tablets it is facing calls to return The British Museum is being investigated by...
