LONDON — Four men were charged Monday over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. The toilet, valued at 4.8 million pounds, was an artwork titled “America” and intended as a pointed satire about excessive wealth by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan. Police said …
The chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to take revenge against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that have been deemed “insulting” by Tehran, an Al Arabiya report said. “You have made a big mistake, but sooner or later Muslims will take revenge, and you may arrest the avengers, …
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