Bangladesh launches hunt for stolen antiques
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Police in Bangladesh have begun a massive search to recover two rare archaeological artifacts stolen from Dhaka airport, officials said on Monday.
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Bangladeshi authorities are to name publicly hundreds of corruption suspects, including former ministers, as part of a major graft crackdown by the new interim government, according to an official.
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More than 22,000 ancient cultural treasures from Afghanistan, feared lost or destroyed after decades of war and Taliban rule, have been taken out of dusty crates and safes in Kabul and inventoried for safekeeping, said a U.S. archeologist on Wednesday.
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Norwegian police are conducting a nationwide hunt for the armed thieves who Sunday made off with Edward Munch&#39;s masterpiece The Scream and another painting, Madonna.
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The hunt to find the remains of a missing woman and her three-year-old son is set to begin in earnest.
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A Spanish court has ordered police to capture and search two vessels belonging to a Florida firm that recently announced it had found a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean laden with an estimated $500 million worth of Colonial-era treasure, news reports said Tuesday.
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Police and customs officials search for seized items missing from a "secure depot" in Coventry.
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A valuable collection of Swiss watches is found in France shortly after being stolen from a museum in Switzerland.
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An Italian Renaissance painting stolen a year ago in Cyprus, possibly a Titian, has been recovered in Bulgaria in a police raid, media reported.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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[World News] Dhaka, Aug 26 : Bangladesh will seek Interpol&#39;s assistance to probe a bomb attack on an opposition rally last week that left 19 people dead and some 200 wounded.
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A national database is being set up to help return lost and stolen phones to their rightful owners.
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Police in Switzerland have recovered artworks stolen earlier this month in a daring heist at a Zurich museum, Geneva police said Tuesday.
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Ivory statues, Buddhist carvings, gold coins and thousands of other precious objects from the Kabul Museum feared stolen or destroyed under Soviet occupation and Taliban rule have been found, an American archaeologist said.
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Pieces of Britain's past, including a second-century silver ring and a 500-year-old Tudor trade weight, are among artefacts being peddled daily on the Internet to the alarm of experts at the British Museum.
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Police will search a further three Birmingham properties in the inquiry into an alleged kidnapping plot.
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Federal agents executed search warrants Thursday at several Southern California museums, looking for stolen antiquities, officials said.