Stolen Marc Chagall painting to be returned after 30 years

A Marc Chagall painting stolen from a New York couple's home in 1988 will be returned to the family's estate after nearly 30 years, the FBI says.

The 1911 painting, Othello and Desdemona, was taken from Ernest and Rose Heller's flat with more than a dozen other works of art and jewellery.

The Chagall was recovered last year after a Washington, DC gallery owner twice refused to purchase the painting.

He told the seller to contact the authorities for proof of ownership.

"We took the case from there," said Special Agent Marc Hess, a member of the FBI Art Crime Team.

The Maryland man who tried to sell the work had stored it in his attic for years in a customised box he fashioned out of a door jamb and plywood, according to Mr Hess.

Don’t ask whether Facebook can be regulated. Ask which Facebook to regulate.

What’s the right regulation for Facebook? That depends on which Facebook you’re talking about.

The Washington leg of Mark Zuckerberg’s “apology tour,” precipitated by Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Scandal, has seen a tense two days of lawmakers grilling the Facebook founder about the extent of Facebook’s mounting privacy issues, its role in shaping the global democratic process, and what he is doing to solve its many woes.

During Tuesday’s joint congressional hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees, lawmakers covered a wide range of questions from lawmakers. But none was more integral to understanding the issues and challenges facing Facebook — and those in favor of regulating it — than a single exchange between Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Zuckerberg.

Woman finds video of herself on PornHub having sex for an hour

A woman was horrified after a friend who she hadn’t seen for 20 years called her to say she’d seen a video of her having sex on Pornhub. Luke Brinson, 32, shared the hour-long video on the X-rated site as well as a ten-minute clip and a four-minute video. The videos had been watched a total of 3,000 times and was kept online for five months.

Brinson, from Shirehampton, was found guilty of disclosing sexual photographs with intent to cause distress at Bristol Crown Court. The court heard how Brinson had uploaded three videos of the victim to the porn site. Sam Jones, prosecuting, told the court: ‘The victim was contacted by someone from her childhood. They informed her she was aware of images of her and sent her a link.

‘She was very distressed. She contacted the website and days later the images were taken down. ‘Mr Brinson was arrested and interviewed and denied the offence.’ He was convicted after a trial at Bristol Magistrates’ Court.

Instagram model posts videos from plane minutes before it crashed, killing all on board (video)

    

6 people have died after a plane filled with Instagram stars crashed outside Scottsdale, Arizona, moments after passengers took videos and posted on social media.

Instagram model Mariah Coogan, from Santa Rosa, recorded a video of her and a friend, club promoter Anand "Happy" Patel, goofing around moments before the plane went down. She shared the video with her over 30,000 followers on Instagram and, moments later, she and others on board were dead.

Could alien life be hiding in the clouds of Venus?

According to a new study, the ever-changing appearance of Venus' clouds may indicate that microbial life can survive in the venusian atmosphere. This artist’s impression shows the clouds above the surface of Venus.
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When it comes to searching for life elsewhere in the solar system, astronomers typically fixate on Mars or the handful of ice-encrusted moons around Jupiter and Saturn. But according to a new study, to find extraterrestrial life, we may only need to look to our nearest neighbor — Venus.

In a paper published March 30 in the journal Astrobiology, an international team of researchers suggests that the thick and acidic atmosphere of Venus may actually serve as a potential safe haven for microbial life. In the hypothesis paper, they not only present multiple lines of evidence showing the venusian clouds could harbor extreme forms of life, but also show that airborne life on Venus would help explain the fluctuating appearance of the planet’s clouds — a mystery that has plagued astronomers for nearly a century.

Asteroid ‘Oumuamua an alien UFO? Scientists reveal latest findings

When astronomers spotted a bizarre cigar-shaped asteroid floating through the heavens earlier this year, they immediately launched a bid to find out if it was alien in origin. Now the latest results of a scan for signs that it Asteroid ‘Oumuamua was built by an extraterrestrial civilisation have been released. The strange object is twice as big as the Gherkin skyscraper, stretching to about 400 metres long, and is the first space rock observed in our Solar System after travelling here from elsewhere.

Forever Records signs @jaysplash20 as Board of Trustees

#Forever Records Welcomes @jaysplash20 on the board of trustee, She merited this role on the basis that she has been in the fore front supporting the Female Growth in The Nigerian Music industry through financial Aid, she is based in Turkey / U.S ,

here high end fashion and presidential lifestyle places her in the upper echelone.

 she is seen as  a visionary leader with Futuristic insights  and in the public eye she has a reputable street persona.

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Russian governor resigns after shopping centre blaze

Aman Tuleyev, the longtime governor of Russia's Kemerovo region where a huge mall fire killed at least 64 people including 41 children last weekend, resigned on Sunday.

"I submitted my resignation letter to the Russian president," he said in a three-minute video address released by his office.

Tuleyev, who had been at the helm of the key coal-mining region since 1997, said he could no longer remain at his post with "such a heavy burden" and added that his resignation was "the only right choice".

At least 64 people - including 41 children - died when a huge fire ravaged a mall in the industrial city of Kemerovo in western Siberia last Sunday.

The expert’s guide to how you really CAN take years off your face: Top dermatologist reveals the facts (and fiction) about anti-ageing your skin

Ever since I was a teenager in the early Nineties, I’ve been obsessed with skincare.

I was desperate to find a cure for my dreadful acne — my terrible skin was a source of deep embarrassment, and for years held me back.

In the end, it wasn’t apple cider vinegar, home-made sugar scrubs, toothpaste, TCP or peel-off masks that eventually improved it; it was seeing a dermatologist.

These days, I’m no longer a spotty teenager, I’m a qualified dermatologist myself and a spokesperson for the British Skin Foundation, specialising in both beauty and medical skin problems with a particular fascination with anti-ageing.

The process of getting older outwardly can be seen in the skin before any other organ of the body. Growing old cannot be hidden, unlike many other medical issues. We are living longer than ever before and the anti-ageing market grows ever bigger, bombarding us with celebrity endorsed potential ‘cures’, some of which are utter rubbish.

It drives me mad, the amount of bad information out there. Over the past ten years, I’ve seen hundreds of patients, many of whom, faced with a barrage of anti-ageing advice, are crying out for clarity.

Tiangong 1: Chinese satellite crashes to Earth, mostly burns up on re-entry

Chinese space authorities say Tiangong 1, the country's defunct and reportedly out-of-control space station, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere Sunday night, mostly burning up over the central South Pacific. The China Manned Space Engineering Office says online that the experimental space lab re-entered around 8:15 a.m. local time Monday.

The tumbling spacecraft posed only a slight risk to people and property on the ground, since most of the 8.5-ton vehicle was expected to burn up on re-entry.

Officials at the Joint Force Space Component Command said the satellite re-entered after 8 p.m. ET. Their statement mentioned that the reentry was confirmed "through coordination with counterparts in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom":

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NASA SCHOCK: Huge 'alien herd of animals found in space probe images of Mars'

MARS could be flourishing with Earth-like life according to a shocking conspiracy theory sparked by these NASA images. Pictures taken from above by space probes reveal there is a thriving ecosystem supporting life on the Red Planet — according to wild claims spreading online.

A video uploaded to YouTube shows the pictures which show a cluster of objects on the planet’s surface spanning for miles.

And another angle appears to reveal other parts of the area rumoured to be feeding zones for the "alien animals".

conspiracy theorist Neal Evans claims this is proof of life on the Red Planet — alongside an entire environment capable of supporting them.

'Satan 2' nuclear missile again test-launched by Russia, as Putin brags of 'invulnerable' arsenal

A new intercontinental ballistic missile hailed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as being able to fly over the North or South Poles and strike any target in the world reportedly was test-launched for the second time Friday.

Russia’s defense ministry released a video purportedly showing the Sarmat ICBM blasting off in spectacular fashion from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in its northern Arkhangelsk province, the move coming just hours after the Kremlin announced it would expel 60 American diplomats and close the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg in retaliation for U.S. measures taken in response to the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter in Britain.

The video shows the missile – dubbed “Satan 2” by NATO -- rising out of the ground and seemingly floating in the air for a brief moment before more flames erupt, kicking up massive clouds of smoke and snow.

"No defense systems will be able to withstand it," Putin said about the missile during his state-of-the-nation speech in early March.

Two teens charged in brutal beating death of New Jersey man

Two teens have been arrested and charged in connection with the brutal beating death of a 36-year-old New Jersey man.

Authorities say Sebastian Aguilar was attacked by multiple people Wednesday night while walking in Guttenberg, a small town just across the Hudson River from New York City, NorthJersey.com reported.

Police found Aguilar lying on the ground around 10:15 p.m. and rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he died at 7:40 a.m. Thursday, NJ.com reported.

The exact cause of his death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner.

Arnold Schwarzenegger underwent heart surgery and is now in stable condition

Arnold Schwarzenegger had heart surgery on Thursday and was in stable condition as of Friday, his spokesman Daniel Ketchell confirmed to The Washington Post.

Ketchell said on Twitter that Schwarzenegger, 70, underwent a planned procedure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to replace a pulmonic valve. He said the valve was "successfully replaced."

TMZ, which first reported the surgery, said complications arose in the valve replacement and Schwarzenegger required an "emergency" open-heart surgery, though Ketchell did not appear to confirm that in his statement on Twitter. The Post said he "noted that an open-heart surgery team was on hand during the procedure, but downplayed its seriousness."

Could enemies sabotage undersea cables linking the world? Fears rise as officials say Russian ships are showing increased interest in the 400 fiber-optic communication cables spanning the oceans

Russian ships are skulking around underwater communications cables, causing the U.S. and its allies to worry the Kremlin might be taking information warfare to new depths.

Is Moscow interested in cutting or tapping the cables? Does it want the West to worry it might? Is there a more innocent explanation? Unsurprisingly, Russia isn't saying.

But whatever Moscow's intentions, U.S. and Western officials are increasingly troubled by their rival's interest in the 400 fiber-optic cables that carry most of world's calls, emails and texts, as well as $10 trillion worth of daily financial transactions.

'We've seen activity in the Russian navy, and particularly undersea in their submarine activity, that we haven't seen since the '80s,' Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of the U.S. European Command, told Congress this month.

Without undersea cables, a bank in Asian countries couldn't send money to Saudi Arabia to pay for oil. U.S. military leaders would struggle to communicate with troops fighting extremists in Afghanistan and the Middle East.