Deep-Fried Flags Removed From Museum
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - A museum director in this military town removed an art exhibit featuring several deep-fried American flags.  Art student William Gentry said his piece, "The Fat Is in the Fire," was a commentary on obesity in America.
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The German government reverses a decision to ban Tom Cruise from filming at a national monument.
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The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center last week removed a Roger Clemens jersey from an exhibit about the Yankee renaissance that started in the mid-1990s.
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A new Iraqi flag Â stripped of the three green stars of Saddam Hussein's toppled Baath party Â was hoisted over the Iraqi Cabinet building Tuesday in a symbolic break with the past nearly five years after the U.S.-led invasion.
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It's another public relations debacle for the nation's museum industry, already tarred by reports that top institutions knowingly dealt in looted Italian artifacts.
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WASHINGTON - A cartoonish painting of President Bush in the nude has been taken down from the wall at the City Museum of Washington. The picture, called "Man of Leisure, King George," adopts the pose of a famous Impressionist painting, Edouard Manet's "Olympia," that scandalized Paris in 1863, and now hangs in the Gare d'Orsay Museum in Paris...
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LONDON  - A torn piece of the flag that flew on Lord Nelson's ship, the Victory, sold at auction for &#36;86,600 US on Tuesday.
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The bald eagle, America's national symbol, is flying high after spending three decades in recovery. On Thursday, the U.S. took the eagle off the Endangered Species Act's "threatened" list.
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The uniform of murdered policeman Keith Blakelock has been removed from Scotland Yard's crime museum for forensic examination.
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The Interior Department had tried to limit a separate set of protections for the majestic bird that has served as a national symbol for centuries.
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The new 2012 Olympic logo is to be removed from the official website after fears it could trigger an epileptic fit.
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The San Diego Museum of Art relinquished an 18th-century painting to the Mexican government Wednesday after it was found to have been stolen from a rural Mexican church.
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ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. - Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
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More than 1 million pages of historical government documents &#151; a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol &#151; have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered the removal of his portrait from display throughout the Stalinist state, signaling a scaling back of the decades-old adulation of the
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The bloodied uniform of a British policeman murdered by a machete-wielding mob during a riot in London 19 years ago has been removed from a crime museum for new forensic tests, police said.
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Animated footage promoting the logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games was removed from the organizers' Web site on Tuesday amid concern it could trigger epileptic fits.