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This weeks top international news stories inched:

**  Antarctica display a Mawson tribute **
Behind the eerie, goggled balaclava is a story of one of South Australia's
greatest scientific adventurers - Sir Douglas Mawson


**  Puccini's final frames found  **
Hitherto unknown "fly-on-the-wall" film footage showing the composer Giacomo
Puccini at work and play towards the end of his life has been found in the
Tuscan villa where he was born. ..


**  Museum's 1913 tuck shop must go metric  **
Trading standards officials told a museum's sweet counter that it must go
metric even though it is a 1913 tuck shop


**  Guggenheim in Venice to Exhibit `Amazons of the Avant-Garde'  **
While the remarkable achievements of the early 20th-century Russian
avant-garde have been well documented, the unprecedented number of women
artists within a radical cultural enterprise is an essential aspect that has
yet to be properly explored


**  Nazi link to art treasures **
Britain has published a list of more than 300 art treasures in the country's
galleries that may have been stolen by the Nazis


**  Assisting inquiries  **
Found in leafy Surrey Hills street this week. One notebook: "Victoria
Police" and crest on cover. No name


**  Silver loses shine in Shanghai  **
On a frosty winter's day, a cable crew digging up a downtown Shanghai street
hit a large earthen urn in which they found hundreds of Spanish silver coins
and ten large ingots


**  Bringing the mammoth back to life  **
It is not hard to hack away at a wall of ice and snow at 40 degrees below
zero. It's impossible. The ice has the texture of concrete


**  Louvre's Veronese 'spoilt by cleaning'  **
The Louvre's conservation work on a masterpiece by Veronese, the
16th-century Italian painter and master of Leonardo da Vinci, is being
challenged.


**  Alberta to return sacred aboriginal artifacts  **
Hundreds of sacred artifacts in Alberta museums will be returned to
aboriginal communities under a bill introduced in the legislature Wednesday,
says Premier Ralph Klein.


**  Lifting the Veil To Western Culture  **
Scraggly-haired and slightly ghoulish, the four Andy Warhol silkscreens of
Mick Jagger stared at 23-year-old Fatimah Noorbasch like cave paintings from
a lost world, and made about as much sense to her


**  Newseum Eyes D.C. Sites  **
The Newseum--the $50 million homage to the news business that has brought
nearly 1.5 million tourists to Northern Virginia since 1997--is looking
toward Washington in search of larger quarters and a stake in the action of
an increasingly energized downtown.


**  A Boardroom Shares Its Art on the Net   **
 While members of the public rely on museums and galleries for access to the
work of famous artists, some privileged executives can simply view artwork
on display in their boardrooms


**  A Chinese family's brush with fate  **
A chance sighting during an art conservator's north Queensland holiday has
saved an irreplaceable piece of Australian history: two small portraits of
children from a Chinese family in both Qing dynasty costume and Edwardian
dress
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