The Rock waxwork museum working on 'urgent' skin tone fix
Paris's Grevin museum promises to address concerns over the skin tone of its life-sized figure.
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New York unveils statue commemorating alligator sewer myth
New York City has unveiled a sculpture paying homage to one of the city's most enduring myths: Alligators lurking in the sewers.
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New Mexico man claims self-defense for protest shooting
By Andrew Hay TIERRA AMARILLA, New Mexico A New Mexico man on Friday claimed self-defense in the shooting
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American man arrested in Israel for smashing Roman statues in museum
An American man has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of "the deliberate defacement" of valuable sculptures at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Israeli police have confirmed.
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Colonel Otton Hulacki: Polish WW2 veteran dies aged 101
Colonel Otton Hulacki was unable to return to Poland after the war and settled on the Isle of Wight.
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New Mexico man charged with attempted murder for protest shooting
By Andrew Hay A New Mexico man was charged with attempted murder for shooting a demonstrator at a
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Man shot at protest over New Mexico conquistador statue
By Andrew Hay A man was shot on Thursday in New Mexico on the site where authorities planned
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New Mexico conquistador statue reinstallation stopped after protests
By Andrew Hay ESPANOLA, New Mexico A New Mexico county halted the reinstallation of a 16th-century Spanish conquistador
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German tourist accused of damaging 16th-century statue in Florence
A 22-year-old German man has been detained in Florence accused of damaging a statue in the 16th-century Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della Signoria, city authorities said in a statement.
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'Marcus Aurelius' statue seized from Cleveland museum in looting probe
The statue, believed from Turkey, is part of an antiquities smuggling probe, NY investigators say.
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Coins and medal found in mysterious West Point time capsule from 1820s
The military academy first thought the 200-year-old box was empty. Closer study revealed otherwise.
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Georgia renames square after first black Civil War nurse
Susie King Taylor's name replaces pro-slavery former US vice-president John C Calhoun.
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