Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your free webzine and museum compendium read weekly in more than 98 countries . Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this week's edition include: ** Thief escapes with British Museum piece An ancient Greek marble bust worth £25,000 ($72,000) was stolen from a British Museum gallery left unattended because of staff shortages ** 18mph museum three-wheeler gets speeding ticket Police have tried to issue a speeding ticket for a vintage vehicle with a top speed of 18mph which hasn't been on the roads for 40 years ** Robbers Dig Tunnel in Huge Art Heist Robbers who spent two months digging a tunnel into a museum in Paraguay made off with five centuries-old paintings valued at well over $1 million over the weekend ** Trove of Giant Marsupial Bones Found in Outback The prize among a treasure trove of bones stumbled upon by adventure seekers is a near perfect skeleton of a marsupial lion ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ GLOBAL MUSEUM TRAVEL - For Business or Pleasure: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals. 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CLICK http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel1.htm to view and use the Travel Service- Safe & Secure transactions and destinations ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ** One Architect's Vision at Uffizi For the wicked-tongued Italian art critic, it's a seven-story-high bed frame that would horrify art-lovers as they take their leave of the Uffizi ** Resurrected: John the Baptist A skeleton discovered near the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found may be the 2,000-year-old remains of John the Baptist ** Ground Zero artefacts exhibited as sad reminder of terror attacks They went on display yesterday at the New York State Museum in Albany, one of the handful of institutions gingerly beginning to exhibit artefacts from Ground Zero ** Christian Designs Found in Tomb Stones of Eastern Han Dynasty Studies show that as early as 86 A.D., or the third year under the reign of "Yuanhe" of Eastern Han, Dynasty Christianity entered into China ** Israel pulls plug on Einstein show in China Chinese censorship of parts of an Israeli exhibit on Albert Einstein has caused Israel to call off the show, scheduled to tour China ** 1918 Human Influenza Epidemic No Longer Linked To Birds The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History historic bird collections was critical in determining that the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 20 million to 40 million people worldwide did not originate from birds ** Malays flock to see ghosts An exhibition on ghosts as depicted in various cultures of the world at the national museum in Kuala Lumpur is drawing huge crowds ** Original 'dragon bone' study found The National Science Museum has recently discovered in its collections the original copy of a study, written by a Japanese Confucian scholar, describing the fossilized remains of an ancient elephantlike creature ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ Advertisement: THE DR. 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The Audubon Society ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ ** French police discover cache of valuable artworks stolen from Swiss gallery A 46-year-old man was placed under investigation after French police discovered a cache of artworks stolen from a Swiss gallery ** Museum opens at Elie Wiesel's birthplace in Romania The childhood home of Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel was opened on Monday as a museum ** Cleaning duty at the Rodin museum We live in a different era now - one more rigorously protective of its treasures - and Bibi's nose, since restored, is faring better, thanks to the "Do Not Touch" sign at his side ** Lack of fee attracts new faces Not only has annual attendance doubled-to just under 200,000-since the admission fee was dropped in June 2001, but visitors also are younger and from more diverse ethnic groups ** The Man Behind The Killer Inside was a 600ft art gallery and a mausoleum designed to hold van Hoogstraten's body for 5,000 years, entombed like an Egyptian pharaoh with his treasures ** Monitor expedition finds possible human bones Some of the four officers and 12 crew members lost when the USS Monitor sank on New Year's Eve 1862 are thought to have been swept overboard ** Argentina reflects on legacy of Evita Visitors to the museum, which was to open to the public Friday, will be treated to clips from the movies she made when she was an actress ** Building a statement While city councilors granted permission for the construction project, they were forced to veto a request by organizers who wished to sacrifice a pig on the museum grounds ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Converging Futures? 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