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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: ** Scales of justice for goldfish in blender The director of the Trapholt modern art museum in Copenhagen went on trial on charges of cruelty to animals ** Research fear over return of human bones Plans to return human remains from museums and study collections to their ancestral owners would be a disaster for research in fields from forensic medicine to anthropology, scientists warned ** £100,000 prize for legal museum An audacious attempt to keep potential young offenders off the streets last night won for a small independent Nottingham museum the largest cash prize in the arts ** Russia to Unveil Restored Amber Room Mosaics of semiprecious stones sparkle, adding to the sensation of being enclosed in an oversized jewelry box ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ Advertisement: ULTIMATE IMPOSSIBILITIES - Join professional stage magician and science lecturer Khevin Barnes in an astonishing presentation . 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Discover more at http://www.drwilderness.com/id3.htm ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ ** Last pictures of Titanic to be auctioned The last photograph of the Titanic, taken on April 10 1912, showing the great liner steaming confidently away across a millpond sea, is still in the album given to a 12-year-old passenger who kept it all his life ** Director of Whitney Museum to Resign Ashcroft spoke at an Interpol conference aimed at creating a database listing pieces of art and historical objects stolen in the aftermath of the war. ** Panama recovers stolen artifacts Several people were arrested in the operation, and police said that some museum staff may have been involved in the robbery of the pieces, which included ceramic vessels, jewelry and figurines ** Great Blue Whale Returns to New York Museum After Renovations A life-size replica of the world's largest creature returns to public view Saturday after a $25 million makeover of the American Museum of Natural History's ocean exhibit ** This Week's Horoscopes Scorpio: (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You've never lost sight of your childhood dreams of rainbow-colored pegasus-unicorns, which makes you a truly formidable geneticist. ** Jordan's customs confiscates Iraqi artifacts from travelers Officers at al-Karamah border post are finding and seizing archaeological treasures, artwork & manuscripts ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ GLOBAL MUSEUM TRAVEL - For Business and Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in 1998. 40,000 in over 8,000 cities worldwide. 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