Read more about the article Fritzl Home Is Now Rented Apartments
Image shows the house of Josef Fritzl, aged 87, in the town of Amstetten, Lower Austria State, Austria, undated photo. He is currently serving his sentence at the Stein Prison, in the town of Krems an der Donau, Austria. (Newsflash)

Fritzl Home Is Now Rented Apartments

The home of Austrian criminal Josef Fritzl has been divided into apartments rented to young people after plans to turn it into a horror museum failed. And the basement dungeon…

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Read more about the article Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years
Photo shows an artifact that is believed to have been stolen during the pillaging of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in 2003 and returned to Iraq by FBI, undated. Archaeologists believe the artifact, which stands only 2 1/4 inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide, dates back 2,700 years. (FBI/Newsflash)

Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years

US authorities have repatriated a 2,700-year-old artefact stolen from a museum in Iraq 20 years ago. The Iron Age artefact, named 'Furniture Fitting with Sphinx Trampling a Youth', was reportedly…

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Read more about the article Gruesome Moment Huge Snake Bit Off More Than It Could Chew Immortalised For A Century
Image shows an anaconda devouring a capybara, undated photo. It was caught by a hunter in Brazil in 1924. (Sven Traenkner/Newsflash)

Gruesome Moment Huge Snake Bit Off More Than It Could Chew Immortalised For A Century

This is the historic moment a huge anaconda bit off more than it could chew in Brazil 100 years ago. Because just as the 17ft long snake was swallowing a…

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Read more about the article Ukrainian Museum Exhibit Allows Visitors To Sink Russian Warship Destroyed During Fighting
Photo shows Moskva moored in Sevastopol Bay in 2012. Moskva is the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class of guided missile cruisers in the Russian Navy. (CEN)

Ukrainian Museum Exhibit Allows Visitors To Sink Russian Warship Destroyed During Fighting

These images show how a museum in Ukraine is allowing its visitors to sink a model of the Russian warship 'Moskva'. The footage, filmed at the Lviv Museum of Science…

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Read more about the article Biggest Gems Raid In History Came From School Trip
Image shows the shelves where the jewels were stolen, undated photo. The defendants confessed over the 113 million (GBP 100 million) jewels stolen three years ago from the Green Vault museum in Dresden, Saxony State, Germany. (Newsflash)

Biggest Gems Raid In History Came From School Trip

A gang member behind a EUR 113 million jewellery heist in Germany has told a court that he got the idea for the break-in from a school trip. Mohammed Remmo…

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Read more about the article Winter Wonderland Where The One-Eyed Wolf Is King
One-eyed wolf asserts dominance over other pack members, at the Skeena River watershed in northern British Columbia, Canada, in undated footage. According to professor Andrew Hendry, the province of BC is currently doing a wolf-cull, where they kill wild wolves in a misguided effort to save endangered caribou. (@hendryandrew/Newsflash)

Winter Wonderland Where The One-Eyed Wolf Is King

One-eyed wolf shows he is still the leader of the pack, surprising researchers who have been monitoring the group for years and had not realised he was the Alpha male.…

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Read more about the article Police Seize Gruesome Private Museum Of Ancient Human Remains
Picture shows some of the items seized by police during Osarium operation, undated. Police seized 350 archaeological pieces and almost 200 bone remains from two men charged with misappropriation of goods of historical, cultural or scientific value in Gata de Gorgos, Spain. (Newsflash)

Police Seize Gruesome Private Museum Of Ancient Human Remains

A private collection of nearly 200 ancient human bones and more than 350 archaeological treasures have been seized by police from homes in Spain. Civil Guard officers recovered an astonishing…

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Read more about the article Egypt Returns Priceless Coins Looted From Ancient Civilisations
Photo shows a jewellery of the Queen Ahhotep, which was displayed at the Egyptian Museum of Liberation in Cairo, Egypt, undated photo. Sabah Abdel Razek, director general of the museum, explained that this was the first time that these treasures were being displayed after having been in storage. (@tourismandantiq/Newsflash)

Egypt Returns Priceless Coins Looted From Ancient Civilisations

Egypt has returned nearly 200 ancient coins to their modern homelands after they were seized by officials being trafficked into the country. Envoys from Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and China…

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Read more about the article Police Recover Treasures From EUR 113 Million Gems Raid
Breast star of the Polish White Eagle Order stolen from the historic Green Vault in Dresden, Germany, in November 2019. (Police Saxony/Newsflash)

Police Recover Treasures From EUR 113 Million Gems Raid

Police have retrieved a "considerable part" of the EUR 113 million gems collection stolen in one of the biggest jewellery thefts in history. The astonishing diamonds and rare artefacts dating…

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Read more about the article Andy Warhol Piece Of Queen Elizabeth II For Her 25th Coronation Anniversary Goes Under The Hammer
Image shows Andy Warhol's Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, from Reigning Queens, 1985, signed in pencil, undated photo. It will be auctioned for EUR 150,000-200,000 (GBP 130,000-174,000) in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (Dorotheum/Newsflash)

Andy Warhol Piece Of Queen Elizabeth II For Her 25th Coronation Anniversary Goes Under The Hammer

This Andy Warhol piece of Queen Elizabeth II from 1985 is set to go under the hammer in an upcoming auction that could see it fetch EUR 200,000. Image shows…

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