PARIS (AP) â A vividly hued Picasso
portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar that had remained
hidden from public view for more than eight decades sold Friday at
auction for 32 million euros (about $37 million), including fees â
surpassing expectations but far from the artistâs most expensive work
ever auctioned.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) â A baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo had more
tricks than treats to show when handlers gave it a small pumpkin to play
with during an annual fall event where giant elephants smash half-ton
pumpkins.
Weighing just 775 pounds (351.5 kilograms), eight-month-old Asian elephant
Tula-Tu is about the heft of one of the giant pumpkins so is too small
to smash them. Instead, zoo handlers gave her a small pumpkin to
practice with. The little elephant dribbled the gourd around like a
soccer ball, a video from the zoo shows.
Thieves busted for stealing over 1,000 restaurant chairs in Spain
MADRID (AP) â Spanish police have busted a criminal group dedicated to stealing your seat. Literally.
Spainâs
National Police said Wednesday that they had arrested seven people
suspected of stealing more than 1,100 chairs from outdoor seating areas
at restaurants and bars in Madrid and another nearby municipality in
just two months. More information here.
A ânew eraâ has begun in the development of artificial vision after a
combination electronic eye implantâwith augmented reality glasses
restored vision to blind eyes in patients with untreatable macular
degeneration.
âIncredibly Encouragingâ Drug Trial Shrinks Tumors in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Within Six Weeks.
The triple-action injection-based therapy targets metastatic head and
neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), a hard-to-treat form of head and
neck cancer, considered the 6th-most common form of the disease.
