By Agence France-Presse New York prosecutors have seized five Egyptian antiques from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of an international trafficking investigation involving the former head of Paris’s Louvre Museum. The artifacts — which include a group of painted linen fragments, dated between 250 and 450 BC, depicting a scene from the Book […]
By Agence France-Presse EU ambassadors on Thursday dropped the leader of Russia’s Orthodox church from a proposed blacklist, allowing them to agree a new round of sanctions after opposition from Hungary, diplomats said.” Another strong package of sanctions was agreed today against Putin and the Kremlin,” tweeted EU chief Ursula von der Leyen. “This will […]
By New York Daily News A tiny shop in 1970s London, in neon pink letters, shouted to passersby: SEX. The shop, covered in graffiti and barbed wire, sold fetish gear and bondage kits. But it also collected people: Vivienne Westwood, who would go on to become one of the most influential fashion designers in the […]