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A Berlin court found three men guilty of having stolen a massive 100-kilogram gold coin from the city's Bode Museum in an audacious inside job in 2017. The coin, valued at millions, has not been seen again since.
Uzbekistan's men have won chess' most prestigious international team tournament in Chennai, fending off stiff competition from India's B team and Armenia. Ukraine won the women's event, ahead of Georgia and India.
It runs all Berlin state museums; its collection includes the Pergamon Altar and the Nefertiti Bust. But experts argue that the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is too cumbersome — and advise radical changes.
With his book "Ungläubiges Staunen" (literally "unbelieving awe", as yet unavailable in English), Navid Kermani delivers a fascinating reflection on Christian art and religion. The German-Iranian writer looks at Christianity with a curiosity and an earnestness that has become rare among Christians themselves. Ulrich von Schwerin read the book
They’re now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty