Thieves steal $4 million diamond necklace in brazen smash-and-grab heist
Two unmasked men walked into a jewelry exhibition in central Vienna on Thursday afternoon, picked up a hammer, and shattered a glass…
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who filled the world with polka dots, dead at 97
The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama who filled galleries, auction houses, and museum queues with her unmistakable polka-dot imagery has died. She passed…
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Trump’s ambassador to Italy is cruising the Med on a $450M yacht
The Mediterranean summer of 2026 has produced an unlikely instrument of statecraft: a 380-foot, six-deck superyacht named the Boardwalk, valued at roughly
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A Qing Dynasty vase 200 years ahead of its time
Among the hundreds of thousands of imperial treasures housed in Beijing's Palace Museum, one object stands apart from everything else on display.…
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Look of the Week: Olivia Dean is a diva in the making
EDITOR’S NOTE: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the…
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Why is one corner of China’s internet insisting a golden era never existed?
A bizarre conspiracy theory has taken root across Chinese social media platforms, asserting that one of the empire's most celebrated eras of…
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God save the drag kings of England
On a stretch of England's southeast coast where Union Jack bunting still snaps above the harbor and the decade since the 2016…
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