Global Museum, your award-winning webzine read in more than 82 countries each week. FREE online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines this week (for the full story visit the webzine) include: ** McGuggenheim? Ever since Lorenzo de Medici first sponsored Michelangelo, the commercialisation of art has been gathering pace ** Ship ahoy! Wrecks wash up under farmers' ploughs Managing a farm in Europe these days is no easy task, what with problems like mad cow disease and severe flooding ** Despair reigns in rubble of proud Indian city The 400-year-old Aina Mahal (Glass Palace), home to a celebrated museum of the ruling family's heirlooms, still stands, but lumps of masonry litter the grounds and no one has yet ventured inside to assess the damage to the collection ** Faked digs put archaeologists on defensive Shock waves ran through Japan in November after it was revealed that revered amateur archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura had planted findings of early Paleolithic relics at two of his dig sites ** New tycoons give millions to charities Entrepreneurs who have made fortunes in the City and in computers and property are challenging established trusts as large donors ** Terra Museum fight takes to airwaves Since the lawsuit, hundreds of calls have come in asking, "Are you still open?" a foundation spokesman said.. ** Authorities must retrieve all of Iran's stolen artifacts The daily was referring to the `hundreds, and thousands' of archaeological findings which have been smuggled out of he country, since the influx of the European archaeologists to Iran ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ADVERT: Rail passes, hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals. . 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Paul Getty Museum for $2.6 million ** Astronomical Globe, Sundial Exhibit Marks Pavilion Opening An exhibit of astronomical globes and instruments goes on view Saturday at the American Museum of Natural History in New York to mark the opening of its Judy and Josh Weston Pavilion ** Kyoto museum returns Nazi-looted art to Russian owners' kin The 1921 abstract pastel by Klee (1879-1940) was turned over to the kin's proxy by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum in Kyoto ** Thieves hop it with golden pond phony They came in the dead of night for a valuable ancient gold frog from South America, smashing their way through three sets of doors at the Auckland Museum ** Auschwitz Revisited Prodded by Holocaust survivors and scholars, Auschwitz has been giving up more of its last infernal secrets. ** 2 Explorers, Followed by Millions History buffs thrill in retracing the path of Lewis and Clark. 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