A family who saw their dreams of a £43 million windfall disappear after the auction of their Chinese vase went wrong, are finally more than £20 million better off following a new sale. Tony Johnson and his mother Gene thought they had sold the 18th century piece in 2010. A Chinese …
Scientists have used a new x-ray technique to produce spectacular 3D images of Roman coins that were corroded inside pots or blocks of soil. The rotating images built up from thousands of two-dimensional scans are so clear that individual coins can be identified and dated, without a single battered denarius …
MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA, Sri Lanka’s president, did not tell his ministers why he required them to attend parliament on August 25th. But an Indian newspaper put them out of their misery, breaking the news online that he was going to announce a lifting of Sri Lanka’s state of emergency. And …