China not to buy back relics stolen in the past

September 11th, 2009 10 Warhol paintings stolen from LA homeLOS ANGELES — Police say a multimillion dollar collection of Andy Warhol paintings has been stolen from a home in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Police Department said Friday that 10 paintings, each 40 inches square, were taken from the home of businessman Richard Weisman.

July 30th, 2009 Woman finds 'stolen' Audi in neighbor's garageBERLIN — An Audi sedan written off by an elderly German woman as stolen two years ago has resurfaced — in her neighbor's garage beneath a thick layer of dust. Police said Thursday the 82-year-old from the northern city of Hildesheim took the car in for repairs two years ago and had the mechanics drive it back to her house and park it in her garage.

July 11th, 2009 Central Park's stolen bronze eagles finally homeNEW YORK — Two bronze eagles stolen from Central Park more than 30 years ago by a drug dealer who used them to store his stash are finally back at home. Prosecutors say the statues were stolen from the City Employees War Memorial at the Mall in the mid-1970s.

May 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh police have busted an inter-state racket of idol smugglers after recovering 19 antique idols worth Rs.10 crore (one million) stolen from Bihar's Bodhgaya temple. Three people have been arrested from a town in Chandauli district and police said they were going to Varanasi to sell the stolen idols to a person there.

May 14th, 2009 SAO PAULO - The paintings of some renowned Brazilian artists which were stolen over the weekend from a private collection in Sao Paulo have been returned, the Brazilian police have said. The paintings by artists Candido Portinari, Tarsila do Amaral and Orlando Teruz were stolen Sunday by a group of about 20 heavily armed men wearing police uniforms.

April 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - Hundreds of gigantic black holes, leftovers from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander into the Milky Way. These black holes may threaten to swallow anything that gets too close, according to the latest study.

March 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A policeman was caught using a stolen motorcycle in the premises of a district court of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Tuesday. Sub Inspector Shyam Sunder Sharma was caught Monday after he parked the motorcycle, stolen from a lawyer, outside the chief judicial magistrate's court at Gorakhpur, 260 km from here.

March 16th, 2009 BEIJING - The 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu, the state-appointed Tibetan Buddhist leader, Sunday called on the Tibetans to support the Communist Party leadership of China to 'achieve progress and bright future'. 'People living in Tibet should cherish the prosperity and happy lives today,' the Panchen Lama said while visiting a government-sponsored exhibition in Beijing depicting economic and social progress that Tibet has achieved in the past five decades.

March 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - While there was media hysteria in India over the auction of Mahatma Gandhi's memorabilia in New York with loud demands for the relics to be brought back, in the hallways of the museum dedicated to the leader's memory here, silence prevailed. India may be ready to get five items belonging to the Mahtama back but it already has perhaps some of his most significant possessions.

March 6th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The successful bid for Mahatma Gandhi's belongings by tycoon Vijay Mallya and the return of the relics to India is 'a great moment of pride for every Indian', the Sabarmati Ashram's director Amrutbhai Modi said here Friday. 'It is a great moment of pride for every Indian that finally the personal belongings of Gandhiji have been won in an auction by Vijay Mallya and the same are being brought to India,' Modi told IANS.

March 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - For those not particular about the original, the replicas are readily available. So, those anxious for a piece of Mahatma Gandhi memorabilia can snap up his glasses for Rs.450, his watch for Rs.800, his nail cutter for Rs.250...

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The auction of Mahatma Gandhi's relics in New York is legitimate as long as it is used to spread his teaching and not for commercial gain, says the director of the National Gandhi Museum, the country's largest repository of items related to the man Indians call the Father of the Nation. While the Indian government works overtime to stop a US collector from auctioning relics of the Mahatma, museum director Varsha Das said Thursday: 'If there is a commercial motive behind selling the items, then it is wrong.' 'Instead, if somebody wants to use them to open a museum overseas, it may well be the medium to inspire and spread Gandhiji's teachings,' she said, sitting in her office in the second floor of the museum that stands diagonally opposite Rajghat, where the apostle of non-violence was cremated.

March 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - In what apparently looks to be the handiwork of one gang, music systems of around 40 cars were stolen after breaking their windows in an east Delhi colony, the police Sunday said. The thieves stuck Saturday night and stole music systems of around 40 cars after breaking window glasspanes in Mayur Vihar's phase I area, a police officer said.

February 27th, 2009 LONDON - China warned of 'consequences' after two bronze artefacts taken from a Chinese palace 150 years ago were auctioned off by Christie's in Paris Wednesday. In an unusually strong statement, China said it condemned and did not recognise the sale of the bronze rat and rabbit, which were sold for $39 million as part of the estate of the late French designer Yves Saint Laurent.

January 5th, 2009 TAIPEI - A Taiwan watch thief has been arrested after sending the stolen expensive watches to their owner to estimate their value, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Tsai Chin-hsin, 37, broke into a house Dec 28 in Hsinchu, west Taiwan, and made off with nine watches and some jewellery, the China Times reported.