26 Years Ago, She Stole $600K And Fled. Now, An Arrest

Egypt Opens “Bent Pyramid”

Ethiopia Planted 353M Trees —in Half a Day

12 Year Old Steals Moms Credit Card.. Heads on Vacation

France Won’t Let Go of Long-Lost Masterpiece 15 Years Later, Tsunami’s Toll Remains Mind-Boggling

Denaro had been on Italy’s most wanted list since the early 1990s and is alleged to be the head of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. He had been convicted of dozens of murders in absentia and faces multiple life sentences. His arrest is a landmark moment in the decades-long battle by authorities against organized crime.

the heirs can’t quit squabbling. Here’s a look at where things been nearly two years since Prince died, the executor of the and Trust, can’t split the money among Prince’s six surviving Internal Revenue Service and executor agree on the estate’s value might happen. The IRS and state of Minnesota are entitled though the estate can stretch out the payments over time. Court after Prince’s death suggested that it was worth around $200 The actual value remains one of the biggest secrets in the case, redacted documents. The actual valuation could have gone up That’s because the various attorneys, accountants, and industry not yet finished appraisals and deals for the use of his music, including his Paisley Park studio.

“A great victory for the state,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a statement. She thanked the national anti-Mafia unit as well as prosecutors in Palermo for their work.

Egypt opened two of its oldest pyramids, located about 25 miles south of the capital Cairo, to visitors for the first time since 1965. Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany told reporters that tourists are now allowed to visit the Bent Pyramid and its satellite pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis, which is part of the Memphis Necropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Bent Pyramid, which the AP reports was built during the Old Kingdom of the Pharaoh of Sneferu, in about 2600 BC, is unique in that it has two internal structures. El-Anany said the Bent Pyramid represents a transitional form of pyramid construction between the Djoser Step Pyramid (2667-2648 BC) and the Meidum Pyramid (also about 2600 BC). The Guardian notes its "unusual" shape: The first 160 feet rise at "a steep 54 degree angle, before tapering off towards the top."

It still haunts me.” The line from 28-year-old Thai resident Suwanne Maliwan to Reuters expresses a common sentiment Thursday, the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed 230,000 lives. Maliwan, for instance, lost both her parents and five other relatives. ”Sometimes I dream that a wave is coming,” she says. Vigils and memorials across Asia were commemorating the staggering loss of life in what was one of the world’s deadliest natural disasters. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake off Sumatra island the morning after Christmas in 2004 triggered the tsunami and unleashed waves as high as 57 feet.

You may one day drive down roads charged with electricity that your vehicle automatically detects and sucks up through an automatic arm—if a Swedish project gains any headway. Called eRoadArlanda, it has turned 1.2 miles of road outside Stockholm into a kind of slot-car track where electric trucks insert movable arms into a rail to recharge the vehicle’s battery while driving. Designers say the technology is weather-proof and the arm will rise automatically when one car passes another, Sky News reports. The rails are also said to be safe to the touch.

Even plastic surgery to help hide her identity couldn’t keep persistent authorities from finally tracking down a bank teller who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer more than 25 years ago. Vice reports on the story out of China, which starts in 1997 in Yueqing. At that time, the woman—IDed by authorities under a pseudonym, Chen Yile—was a 26-year-old teller for China Construction Bank. Per a release from Yueqing prosecutors, Chen stumbled upon a loophole in the bank’s computer system that allowed her to manually tweak the amount of money in customers’ accounts.

withdrawing a total of $587,000 in cash. She reportedly hid $211,000 in various spots around her parents’ home, deposited $310,000 into accounts she shared with her siblings, and fled the area—but not before she stopped at a plastic surgeon’s office and had unknown cosmetic work done, apparently to try to hide her identity.

The Cosa Nostra is one of Italy’s three major crime groups, along with the Camorra, which operates in Naples and the surrounding region, and the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta. Europol says the groups are involved in many activities, including drug trafficking, waste management and tourism.

sentative contacted school officials Thursday about the surprise message, says a spokeswoman for the district.

Johnson said he admires Kelzenberg's courage but that he won't be able to attend prom because he'll be in Hawaii filming Jungle Cruise. Instead, Johnson rented out a nearby movie theater on Saturday for Kelzenberg and more than 230 friends and family to watch his latest movie, Rampage. Johnson even covered the cost of snacks and drinks for the theater. "I couldn't believe it. I was so surprised," Kelzenberg says. "I just kept thinking, 'He saw me! He knows who I am!'" Kelzenberg says she became a fan of Johnson's five years ago. Her favorite movies of his include Central Intelligence and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

Coastal areas of Thailand, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and other countries were deluged. One of the first areas hit was Indonesia’s Aceh province, notes CBS News. In fact, most of those killed were in Indonesia alone, where 170,000 deaths were registered. ”No words can describe our feelings when we tearfully saw thousands of corpses lying on this ground 15 years ago,” said acting Aceh Gov. Nova Iriansyah at a ceremony in Sigli. ”And now, we can see how people in Aceh were able to overcome suffering and rise again, thanks to assistance from all Indonesians and from people all over the world.”

“One of the most important issues of our time is the question of how to make fossil-free road transportation a reality,” says eRoadArlanda Chairman Hans Säll. “We now have a solution that will make this possible, which is amazing.” Among its pluses, Säll says the electric road lets vehicles have smaller batteries and therefore makes vehicles cheaper to produce. The $7.7 million project will be tested with a truck fleet for two years, and if the government approves, it could be implemented for $1.9 million per mile and include buses and cars. “Sweden is at the cutting edge of this technology, which we now hope to introduce in other areas of the country and the world,” Säll says.

El-Anany also announced that Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a collection of stone, clay, and wooden sarcophagi, some of them with mummies, in the area. He said archaeologists also found wooden funerary masks along with instruments used for cutting stones, dating to the Late Period (664332 BC). Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said they also uncovered large stone blocks along with limestone and granite fragments indicating the existence of ancient graves in the area. Egypt has been whipping up publicity for its new historical discoveries in the hopes of reviving a devastated tourism sector still recovering from the turmoil following a 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

With a reported penchant for fast cars, Rolexes and women, Denaro had built a reputation as the “boss of bosses.” But he had also become near mythic for dodging authorities. Some informants reportedly spoke of facial surgeries. There were so few photos of him that Italian authorities had to rely on computer-generated images that approximated what he might look like as an older man.

Denaro had been using a fake name and when lining up for a coronavirus test police officers approached and arrested him. He had been undergoing chemotherapy at the clinic for more than a year. They became certain of his identity three days earlier and then gave the green light for the blitz. He acknowledged who he was immediately: “My name is Massimo Messina Denaro.” “

It’s a beautiful day,” said Paolo Guido, a deputy prosecutor in Palermo. “The mafia was there before Matteo Messina Denaro, and is still there now. But we hope it’ll be there no longer.”

France is trying to hang onto a medieval painting with a crazy backstory. The nation has blocked the export of a small, 13th-century work by the Italian artist Cimabue, a painting that hung unnoticed for decades above a hotplate in a French woman's kitchen. An auctioneer spotted the painting as the elderly woman was preparing to sell her house, and Christ then sold for a staggering $26 million at auction earlier this the Guardian. The buyers are anonymous, but they're believed group of Chilean collectors based in the US. Now, however, they won't be able to own the painting after all.

Once she realized this, Chen applied for a transfer to another branch that was closed on the weekends and snuck into that building on April 12 of that year, a Saturday, prosecutors say. That’s when she modified her own accounts so that she now had more than $834,000 to her name, per the release. Prosecutors say she then visited other bank branches around the city,

Ethiopia claims it has smashed a world record in the name of climate change— and the tree planting isn’t even done. More than 353 million tree seedlin gs were planted across the country just 12 hours as part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Green Legacy refores tation campaign. The campaign hopes to see 4 billion indigenous trees plant ed between May and October. Citizens had been encouraged to plant 200 mil lion trees but Ahmed tweeted that 150 million had been planted after just hours. At the end of 12 hours, the country’s minster for innovation and chnology, Getahun Mekuria, announced 353,633,660 seedlings had gone the ground—more than five times as many trees as were planted in India 12 hours in 2017. Some schools and government offices closed to allow dents and civil servants to take part, which notes 2.6 billion trees have been planted across Ethiopia. The Guardian reports each citizen is asked plant at least 40 seedlings. The goal is to transform Ethiopia’s landscape, which is seeing degradation, soil erosion, deforestation, and droughts and flooding tied to agriculture. About 80% of Ethiopia’s population relies on agriculture to make a living, with the result that just 4% of land is now forested, com pared to 30% at the end of the 19th century, according to Farm Africa. Al Jazeera, a recent study estimates that 1 trillion new trees could pull most 750 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—or about much as humans have released in the last 25 years—over several decades

A 12-year-old Australian boy has pulled off a bold feat that drew international headlines: He stole his mom’s credit card and managed to fly to Bali, Indonesia, for a posh, four-day vacation before getting caught. As recounted in the Australian program A Current Affair, the boy did some research online and figured out he could fly alone without needing a letter from a parent on Jetstar Airways. He nabbed his mom’s credit card, tricked his grandmother into giving him his passport, took a train to the airport, and flew to Bali. “They just asked for my student ID and passport to prove that I’m over 12 and that I’m in secondary school,” says the boy, identified only as Drew. He then checked into a four-star hotel, having made reservations in advance, telling the clerk that his older sister would be joining him soon.

And there he stayed, having a fine time while his panicked mom reported him as missing back home. It wasn’t until the boy posted a video of himself in the hotel pool that his vacation finally came to an end. “I was shocked and disgusted, there’s no emotion to feel what we felt when we found out that he’d left overseas,” says mom, per news.com.au. One reason she’s ticked: Her son had actually tried this stunt twice before, only to be turned away at the airport by Qantas and Garuda Airlines. Mom says she was informed her son’s passport would be flagged by federal authorities as a result, but that apparently never happened. In the aftermath, Jetstar promises to tighten up its policies. “He just doesn’t like the word no and that’s what I got, a kid in Indonesia.”

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Art Expert Gives Museum Some Really Bad News

France's culture ministry has declared the work to be a "national and has at least temporarily overruled the sale, reports USA ministry hopes to hang the painting permanently in the Louvre, now has 30 months to come up with the money to buy it. In me, the family of the unidentified woman who displayed the years, unaware of its origin or its worth, must continue to insured. They also owe a multi-million-dollar inheritance tax, likely have to work out a deal to pay it after the sale goes through.

A museum in southern France suffered a terrible blow when experts declared that over half its paintings are forgeries, The Terrus museum, dedicated to the work of painter Étienne Terrus, apparently knew nothing of the fakes until an art historian informed them. “It’s a catastrophe,” the mayor of Elne, where the museum resides, tells the Telegraph. “I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum, who saw fake works of art, who paid an entrance fee. It’s intolerable and I hope we find those responsible.” Police have taken the fakes and are trying to find those responsible.

He Scrawled ’Help’ on His Boat. After 24 Days, Someone Saw It

Her own father gave her up to police, but she’d already vanished. She obtained a fake ID registered to Guizhou province, though she eventually landed hundreds of miles away in Guangdong province, where she eventually remarried, had a child, bought a house, and established a cleaning supplies company that did quite well, prosecutors say. She was busted in December, however (authorities aren’t saying how they found her), and her new family is said to have had no clue about her crimes. The money Chen took with her on the road is long gone, she says in a statement, but thanks to the success of her company, she says she’d like to return what she stole. She also revealed she did miss the family she abandoned more than a quarter-century ago.

Apparently 82 of the museum’s 140 works are phony, spotted at times because they contained buildings constructed after Terrus died in 1922. Acclaimed for his landscapes of French Catalonia, Terrus was close with artists teen contestants Emil Bergquist dersen from Sweden and David Wang from Austria shared a $3 million prize.

Multimillionaire Invites 10 People to Come Live in ’Paradise’

Looking to permanently while away your days overlooking the Tasman Sea and sipping on vino while watching "nice animals" with other "nice people"? Karl Reipen wants to hear from you. The Guardian reports the German multimillionaire has placed an ad seeking 10 people up to age 70 to come live in what he calls his "paradise," a 550-acre, $5.6 million estate in Awakino, on New Zealand's North Island. "If you are interested to live a life with a Group of Interesting people it can be a new life for you," reads the ad, which Stuff NZ reports was published twice in the New Zealand Herald. Reipen,

At some point during his 24 days lost at sea, Elvis Francois scrawled the world “help” into the hull of his boat. Officials now describe that as key to his rescue. The man from Dominica says he was making repairs to his boat off the island of St. Martin when currents pulled him out to sea. The 47-year-old said he couldn’t direct his boat back to shore and and that he lacked navigational knowledge. “I called my friends, they tried to contact me, but I lost the signal. There was nothing else to do but sit and wait,” Francois recalled in a video released by the Colombian navy. As for what he survived on, not much: He says he had a bottle of ketchup, garlic powder, and some stock cubes. Cmdr. Carlos Urbano Montes told the AP that Francois said he used a cloth to capture rainwater. In the video, he also

Pennsylvania 16-year-old Kyle Giersdorf plays 8 to 10 hours of Fortnite a day, but his parents aren’t complaining: Giersdorf, better known as ”Bugha,” won a record-breaking $3 million at the inaugural Fortnite World Cup at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. The contest featured 100 participants out of around 40 million who entered the on line competition. Giersdorf, who won the solo event in front of a packed stadium, says he plans to save the prize instead of going on a spending spree. ”All I want is a new desk and maybe a desk for my trophy. In the duo event who made his fortune in canned iced coffee, notes in the ad that the estate boasts a winery "for social meetings and dining," and that residents "can enjoy walking, fishing, shopping, kayaking, bird watching, swimming or looking at the nice animals."

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River that’s less than three miles from the Mediterranean coast of Languedoc-Roussillon. The museum spent over $190,000 acquiring paintings they thought were his. But the Terrus likely isn’t alone: Art experts say at least one in five paintings in the world’s top museums may well be fake.

With a total prize pool of $40 million provided by Epic Games, Fortnite’s rent company, the tournament broke e-sports record, though that record is expe cted to be broken by an August event led “The International” Giersdorf, the player in the North American East Region to qualify for the tournament, was domi nant in the six-game series, beating rivals including runner-up Harrison “Psalm” Chang, who took home $1.8 million. Giersdorf was hugged by his family after the win. “This is life-changing for him,” mother Darcy Giersdorf says. “He’s been playing video games since he was three, this is his passion. He told us he could this, he put his mind to it and he did

There are also stables and an in door equestrian center on-site, and Reipen says, "If you would like to bring your own horse it is possible." Interested parties who prefer privacy will like that the property is an hour and a half from the nearest large town or city. The current government under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put in place a ban on foreigners owning homes in New Zealand, but Reipen scooped up described having to constantly remove water from the boat so that it wouldn’t sink. He had a mirror to signal with and said he also tried to light a fire to create a distress signal but couldn’t manage to do so. A plane finally sighted his boat and the word ”help” from the air. He was located some 120 nautical miles northwest of Colombia’s Puerto Bolívar and was picked up by a passing container ship. He’s described as being in good health, considering his ordeal. the property years before te. He still had to get the nation's Overseas Investment which signed off on his it determined he had the and means to build the and maintain it. "It took to bring it to the standard writes in the ad. It's not ture dwellers in Reipen's med utopia will be selected.