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Netherlands

Stolen Van Gogh paintings recovered by Italian police

The masterpieces, stolen more than a decade ago in Amsterdam, were found in a house linked to an international drug trafficker in Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples.

30/09/2016

Brazil

US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologises for making up Rio robbery story

Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has said sorry for fabricating a story about being robbed during the Rio Games by gunmen posing as police officers.

19/08/2016

Brazil

Disgraced US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologises over robbery story

Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has said sorry for fabricating a story about being robbed during the Rio Games by gunmen posing as police officers.

19/08/2016

Brazil

Rio police say US swimmers made up armed robbery story

Rio's police chief says four US Olympic swimmers made up a story about being robbed at gunpoint and could be charged with giving false testimony.

18/08/2016

Brazil

Lochte 'robbery' case: US swimmers pulled off flight

Brazilian police have pulled two US Olympic swimmers off a plane at Rio airport for questioning.

18/08/2016

Brazil

Australians' Rio mishaps: and now, robbery

The Australians sure will remember their stay at the Olympic Village in Rio.

01/08/2016

Russia

Police end hostage-taking in attempted Moscow bank robbery

Police in Moscow have freed six hostages taken in an attempted bank robbe ry by a lone gunman.

18/05/2016

World News

Bank robbers rumbled two years after digging through sewer into vault

Fourteen men have been arrested in connection with a bank robbery two years ago in the French city of Toulouse. They dug a tunnel through a sewer

10/04/2016

Economy

Bangladesh central bank boss resigns over cyber heist, money hunt continues

Bangladesh's central bank governor has resigned over the theft by hackers of $81 million (73 million euros) as investigators try to track where that money went.

15/03/2016

United Kingdom

Pensioner and teen quizzed as fire engine leaves trail of destruction

Two men aged 19 and 66 are being questioned by police in Northern Ireland after a stolen fire engine went on a trail of destruction. Its lights

05/03/2016

Turkey

Turkish police recover stolen "Picasso" painting

Turkish police have recovered what is reported to be an original painting by Pablo Picasso. The work is believed to be the “Nude Brushing Her Hair”

31/01/2016

My Europe Series

Tackling antiquities trafficking

In this week’s Utalk, a question from Lesley in London: “How can looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria, for instance, still end up on the art market

08/01/2016

France

Luxury jewellery boutique robbed in Paris

There has been a daring robbery at Chopard, one of the most famous jewellery shops in Paris. According to police, an armed man robbed the store near

11/12/2015

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Denmark: thieves who are not afraid

How to steal an ATM? Danish bank robbers have the solution! In the city of Ringe, they used a large construction loader to ram a building and steal

03/12/2015

USA

Police shoot gunman on top of a San Francisco roof top

A gunman who robbed a sports wear store and then made his way on top of a San Francisco hospital construction site was shot by police and later died

12/11/2015

Denmark

Images released of Rodin sculpture thieves

Over one month since the theft of French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s “Man with the Broken Nose” from a museum in Copenhagen, police have released

21/08/2015

France

Jenson Button fears gas was used during Cote D'Azur burglary

A spokesperson for Jenson Button thinks anaesthetic gas was piped through the air conditioning during a burglary at his holiday villa in the South of

07/08/2015

Germany

Nosferatu: creator's skull taken from tomb

The authorities in Germany say the skull of FW Murnau, the director of 1920’s silent vampire classic “Nosferatu”, has been removed from his tomb. The

15/07/2015

France

French police hunt gunmen in north west Paris

French police are hunting for three armed men who stormed a clothes store in a shopping centre in north west Paris. The gunmen fled after what is

13/07/2015

France

Eiffel Tower 'pickpocket gang' detained by Paris police

Police in Paris have arrested a gang of suspected pickpockets, thought to have targeted tourists at the Eiffel Tower – and to have made up to 4,000

29/05/2015