Police are looking for witnesses after thieves stole a limited- edition bronze statue worth more than £5,000 from a UK gallery.
The piece, called Dancers Stretching, is one of 50 made by Tom Greenshields, a well-known sculptor. It is thought the artwork, which 34 centimeters tall and 22 centimetres wide, was stolen after thieves broke into a glass cabinet at the gallery in Broadway, Worcestershire.
Mr Greenshields, the grandson of the well-known Victorian watercolour painter Edouard van Goethem, died in 1994.
Women only in lingerie shops
From today, only women will be allowed to work in lingerie stores in Saudi Arabia.
A law passed in 2006 banning men from working in female apparel and cosmetic stores has never been put into effect, partly due to hard-liners in the religious establishment who oppose the whole idea of women working where both sexes congregate together, such as shopping centres.
The Labour Ministry said over 28,000 women have already applied for the sales jobs.
Cooking for animals
An animal nutritionist has compiled a collection of “recipes” for every one of Chester Zoo’s 7,000 residents.
The enormous task was carried out over nine yeara by Dr Andrea Fidgett. She has put together a “diet plan” of nutritional support for everything from stick insects to Sumatran tigers and Asian elephants.
Learning about nutrition in zoo animals is a relatively new science and the “cook book” project is the first time such findings have been compiled for a UK zoo.
Trapped by the ring
A man proposed to his girlfriend with a stolen engagement ring – the girlfriend said yes, but the ring landed him in custody.
Police in Vermont, in the US, said 25-year-old Ryan Jarvis has been charged with stealing the £2,000 white gold solitaire ring from a jewellery store.
Officers said they received tips which led to a Facebook posting by Jarvis’s girlfriend, in which she showed off the ring. Police said she did not know the ring was stolen.
Ship sparks port controversy
Tensions have risen after a Royal Navy warship entered a South American port operating an embargo against ships linked to the Falkland Islands.
HMS Protector, the Navy’s ice patrol vessel currently on a scientific mission to the South Atlantic, called in at Montevideo, Uruguay, en route to the Falklands. But its presence in the port in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War caused local media to question its presence and the national newspaper El Observador placed a photo of the ship on its front page with the headline “English ship in port”.
The move is controversial as it follows the implementation of an embargo on December 21 by the Mercosur countries of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay stopping ships sailing under the flag of the Falkland Islands from entering their ports. Argentina has restated its claims to the Falkland Islands since the UK has stepped up its oil exploration in the area.