Why do people steal art?

Why do people steal art?

Why do people steal art?

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:55 PM PDT

Like something out of another bad "Ocean's Eleven" sequel, thieves broke into the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam on Tuesday and walked off with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of paintings by Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse.

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India Ink: Now in New York: Delhi's Moti Mahal and a 'Dosateria'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

For authenticity, Moti Mahal is importing Amul butter from India.


Downing Street denies cat feud

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:08 AM PDT

Downing Street has denied a feud between cats belonging to the chancellor and prime minister after they were pictured fighting.


Starbucks 'paid no UK tax since 2009'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:16 PM PDT

US coffee chain has only paid $14m in corporation tax in UK since 1998, and nothing in past three years, probe finds.


Ince calls for 10 year Serbia ban

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:48 PM PDT

Ex-England player Paul Ince calls for Serbia to be banned after England Under-21s qualify for Euro 2013 amid ugly scenes.


Income Inequality May Take Toll on Economic Growth

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT

The concentration of income in a few hands might mean not just a more unequal society, many economists say, but also a less vigorous economy.


Picasso and Monets Are Stolen From Dutch Museum

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:09 PM PDT

With impeccable taste, thieves on Tuesday plundered a Rotterdam gallery and made away with seven masterpieces.


The Cuban Missile Misunderstanding: How cultural misreadings almost led to global annihilation

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:29 PM PDT

Fifty years ago Tuesday, U.S. national security adviser McGeorge Bundy informed President John F. Kennedy that a U-2 spy plane flight over Cuba two days earlier had revealed medium-range, nuclear-capable missiles installed by the Soviet Union. The story of the next 12 days is well known, but the world's understanding of why the Cuban Missile Crisis began — why Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev had decided to send the missiles to Cuba — has a history of its own.

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'Fourteen-year-olds' at Foxconn

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 10:18 AM PDT

Foxconn, Apple's main supplier in China, admits it has employed interns as young as 14 years old.


Former Peruvian spy chief acquitted of killings

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT

A Peruvian court absolved former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos of murder charges in a case stemming from a 1997 hostage rescue that prosecutors said went too far.

Syrian planes strike key town

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Syrian warplanes pounded volatile northern regions of the nation Tuesday, activists said.

Chinese increasingly worried about graft, inequality: survey

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:02 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Weeks before China unveils its next generation of leaders, a new survey has found that growing numbers of its people worry about corruption, inequality and food safety, while ties with the United States are increasingly viewed with suspicion.

Qatar funds major project to rebuild Gaza

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:49 PM PDT

GAZA (Reuters) - Qatar on Tuesday launched a $254 million plan to rebuild and modernize Gaza, the biggest injection of reconstruction aid for the Palestinian enclave since it was devastated in an Israeli military offensive nearly four years ago.

Four killed in al Qaeda attack in southern Yemen

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:34 PM PDT

ADEN (Reuters) - One al Qaeda militant and three tribesmen allied to the army were killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in southern Yemen, tribal sources said on Tuesday.

Malala: Global symbol, but still just a kid

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 06:29 AM PDT

She fought against the Taliban. She loved ice cream. Malala, now fighting for her life after being shot on her way home from school, toggles between two existences. She is a global symbol of girls' rights but also just a kid.

Modern art stolen in Dutch heist

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:06 AM PDT

Paintings by famous modern artists disappeared from an exhibition in the Netherlands in a predawn art heist Tuesday, shutting down an exhibition in the Kunsthal Rotterdam, where works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Claude Monet are on display.

Egyptian court to rule on constitutional assembly on October 23

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - A court will rule on October 23 on whether the assembly drafting Egypt's new constitution is legal, a judge said on Tuesday.

In Swat, a girls’ school gripped by fear

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:40 AM PDT

MINGORA, Pakistan — Under a portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, the ninth-grade girls clasped their chemistry texts, smoothed their white head scarves and movingly voiced support for the cause of their classmate, Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban last week because she advocated a girl's right to attend school.

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Egyptian Islamists vow revenge against Israel for Gaza killings

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:02 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Islamist group in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel said on Tuesday it will take revenge against the Jewish state for the killing of Palestinian militants in Gaza at the weekend.

Exclusive: Rwanda, Uganda aid Congo rebels with arms, troops - U.N. panel

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:05 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Despite their denials, Rwanda and Uganda continue to support so-called M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and aided recent attacks that led to the death of a U.N. peacekeeper, according to a U.N. expert panel report.

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