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Mother knows best: Thief punished by his mum on Facebook
Friday 02 August 2013
The story represents yet another occasion when a parent has been able to punish their offspring via a social network
Crime à la Croisette: Cannes becomes the No 1 destination for world’s jewel thieves
Friday 02 August 2013
When asked why he robbed banks, the legendary American criminal Willie Sutton replied: “Because that’s where the money is?”
British woman is killed in Bangladesh during violent jewel robbery
Friday 02 August 2013
The 43-year-old was visiting relatives when she was attacked for her valuables
Wear did you get that mat?
Friday 02 August 2013
Interiors brand Matruska has a new website that shows off the founder’s fashionable past.
American Idol Kelly Clarkson faces export ban from UK Government over Jane Austen ring
Thursday 01 August 2013
The Government has stepped in to stop US singer Kelly Clarkson taking a gold and turquoise ring once owned by Jane Austen out of the country.
Convicted rapist Adam Mark escapes from Leyhill prison
Thursday 01 August 2013
Police are hunting a rapist who has absconded from prison.
The maharaja, the faked will and a 24-year wait for a £3bn inheritance
Monday 29 July 2013
It is a fortune fit for a maharaja – the former Maharaja of Faridkot, Harinder Singh Brar, to be exact. And after a two-decade legal battle, a court in northern India has ruled that Brar’s will was forged, allowing his two daughters to inherit his vast £2.86bn legacy.
€100m Cannes jewel heist 'one of biggest ever'
Monday 29 July 2013
The Carlton Hotel was a setting for Alfred Hitchcocks’s 1955 movie 'To Catch a Thief'
Why creating the perfect Alice is no tea party
Monday 29 July 2013
Michael Volpe continues his monthly dispatch on staging a world premiere
Meet Lev Leviev, the billionaire who lost his sparkle in Cannes jewellery heist
Monday 29 July 2013
The Carlton Intercontinental hotel on the exclusive Promenade de la Croisette in Cannes was the setting for an extraordinarily brazen diamond heist at the weekend, in which a lone gunman strolled into a jewellery exhibition taking place at the hotel and stuffed a suitcase with millions of pounds worth of Leviev diamonds before walking out. The owner of Leviev diamonds, Lev Leviev, is yet to comment on the theft. Apart from being a billionaire with an amazingly alliterative name, just who is this wronged bling merchant?
€100m Cannes jewel heist 'one of biggest ever'
Monday 29 July 2013
The Carlton Hotel was a setting for Alfred Hitchcocks’s 1955 movie 'To Catch a Thief'
Former Tiffany executive admits stealing over $2million worth of jewellery
Monday 29 July 2013
'I knew it was illegal to steal, and I did so regardless… I'm very sorry', she told a judge
Pink Panther jewel thief breaks out of Swiss jail
Friday 26 July 2013
Notorious gang behind robberies worth £200m used ladder to climb over prison fence
Classical review: I gioielli della Madonna, Opera Holland Park, London
Friday 26 July 2013
The action is grittier, the stakes (and skirts) raised higher, and the orchestral noises louder than anything else of its time: if Puccini’s realist operas are verismo then Wolf-Ferrari’s 1911 I gioielli della Madonna is verissimo.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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