VAN GOGH'S STOLEN PAINTINGS RETURN TO AMSTERDAM 14 YEARS LATER.

The Italian mafia was the author of the theft in 2002 of the two works valued at 50 million euros. Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh that were stolen by the Italian mafia in 2002 have returned to the Amsterdam museum from where they were stolen. The works, valued at 50 million euros, are Scheveningen beach view of 1882 and the Congregation of 1884, a period considered crucial for the development of post-impressionist master as a painter. The works were discovered in the heart of Italy last September after a false wall in a villa that, according to prosecutors, belonged to Raffaele Imperiale, accused of leading an international traffic of cocaine.

  

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda

THE AQUEDUCT DISCOVERED ON THE METRO IS THE OLDEST IN ROME.

The Aqua Appia was built in 312 BC. C. and its finding, in the central area of ​​the Italian capital, is "of exceptional archaeological importance"

Discover the first Roman aqueduct, built in 312 BC. C., in the district of Celio, in the central area of ​​the eternal city. This is a finding "clamorous and of exceptional archaeological importance," say the experts, which has been possible thanks to the work of the new underground of Rome, the line C, which has allowed to excavate until almost 20 meters of depth, where normally It is impossible, and do security studies.

Below was a tomb with funerary furnishings from two iron-age bowls, between the end of the tenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. The spectacular discovery has also allowed us to find in many strata many consistent remains of food, a study material of exceptional value for archeology.

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda

 

'WE WERE TOO SCARED TO REPORT IT': EXPRESS ABDUCTIONS ON THE RISE IN CRISIS-HIT VENEZUELA

It was 5pm on a Sunday afternoon when Elena and her husband Juan were jolted out of their car by three armed men and bundled into an unknown vehicle.
The couple stopped their 4x4 when the two preceding vehicles came to an abrupt halt and a third one pulled up behind them, marking the start of their abduction.
They spent the following seven hours in the kidnappers’ vehicle with their heads resting between their legs, unable to move, while the unidentified men negotiated their release.
“At first it is very violent, everything happens very fast,” said Elena, who asked that her real name not be printed for security reasons. 
In a country where most live in poverty and criminality is rampant, express abductions have become a business – the bread and butter of Venezuela’s notorious gangs as well as its petty criminals.

 

• George Cambisaca

FATHER DIED 'AFTER DOWNING WHOLE BOTTLE OF TEQUILA FOR A BET'

A 23-year-old Dominican man has died of alcohol poisoning after reportedly downing a whole bottle of tequila in one go for a £520 bet. 
Kelvin Rafael Mejía approached a group at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic and bet that he could down a whole bottle of the Mexican alcohol, according to local media reports.
Mr Mejía completed the challenge and received his winnings of 30,000 pesos (£520). 
But minutes later he became unable to stand and the young man collapsed in the club’s toilets and later died in hospital. The medical examiner confirmed that Mr Mejía had died of alcohol intoxication. 
Local news outlet El Día reported that Mr Mejía had a two month old daughter. 
A video of the 23-year-old’s challenge has been shared extensively on social media. 
The clip shows other nightclubbers at Vacca Lounge cheering Mr Mejía on as he drinks, while others film him. 
Elis Gómez, the owner of the nightclub in the city of La Romana has distanced himself from the event. 
The nightclub owner told news agency EFE that Mr Mejía, a regular at the club, took it upon himself to bet a group he could complete the challenge. 
Local police have closed Vacca Lounge temporarily so that an investigation can be carried out into Mr Mejía’s death. 
However no arrests have been made. 
The aunt of Mr Mejía, Sandra Perozo, said that his death should serve as an example to young people that “not everyone who says they are a friend is really your friend.”

• George Cambisaca

BARCELONA VS PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN

Lars Lagerback has criticised Luis Suarez's theatrics for taking away from the incredible footballing spectacle that was Barcelona's comeback win over Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.

No team in the history of the tournament had ever overturned a four-goal first leg deficit before but the Blaugrana did just that thanks to a stunning 6-1 victory.

These were the answers of Lars Lagerback:

"It is nonsense that everything is decided by a dive," said the Swede. "I feel sad and sorry for the world of football.
"I'm so angry. It is a piece of pure Suarez theatre. Why do we have officials beside the goal if they can't see these things?"

GOALS:

1^st Goal:Suárez(1-0)

2^nd Goal:Kurzawa s.g(2-0)

3^rd Goal:Messi(3-0)

4^th Goal:Cavani(3-1)
5^thand 6^th Goals:Neymar(4-1 and 5-1)

7^th S.Roberto(6-1)

• Cristian Martín and Pedro González

LORCA, BURIED MEMORY OF THE GAY MYTH

The film, presented yesterday in the Panorama section, matches two arguments. Three even. On the one hand, it has already been said, the always historical polemic; On the other, the disgraceful oblivion of all the Francoist repression against gays and lesbians, and, in the middle, the cause of Federico García Lorca. Poet and Grace to all the atrocities of the world. Including homophobic persecution

The film follows in the footsteps of several victims, all of them with a common wound: the punishment of silence, of recognition with a low voice, of the most crude forgetting. Antoni Ruiz tells how, after being denounced as homosexual by his own mother, the Law of Social Hazard made him a stigmatized citizen with no other recourse than prostitution. Silvia Reyes, transsexual, accurately recalls the repudiation of her family before making her real sex visible. Isabel Franc, in the same way, reveals the secret codes among lesbians so as not to be recognized. What the film seeks ultimately is to shift the focus of oblivion from the cruel spectacular of the graves in the ditches to the equally dark basements of homosexual persecution. And in the middle, as witness of the two disastrous scenarios, Lorca.

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda

JAMES HARDEN BEAT HIS OWN RECORD LOSS (NBA RECORD) ... AND 17 GAMES LEFT!

Great Utah Jazz victory in Houston. Hayward and Gobert led the Snyder, who have won four in a row. With six losses to the Utah Jazz's big defense, James Harden has already 376 losses this season (5.78 per game), surpassing the 374 with which he finished last year and which were so far the NBA record. Beyond the curious facts, the worrying thing for the Rockets was the defeat before the franchise of Salt Lake City, that approaches in the classification (to three parties) and also leaves gained the individual balance (2-1) that would decide in case of tie. Gordon Hayward (23 + 7 + 4) and Rudy Gobert (23 + 10) led the Jazz who have won four straight and stretched the gap with the Clippers to 2.5 games.

•  Isabel López

WHAT BECAME OF ADOU, THE SUITCASE BOY?

His name was Adou, he was eight years old and he was packed in a suitcase in May 2015 to be smuggled across the Tarajal border crossing which separates Morocco from the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa.

The suitcase was in the hands of a 19-year-old Moroccan girl who hesitated before passing through the checkpoint, arousing suspicion. The police put the case through the scanner, producing a photo that shocked the world; Adou was in “a terrible state” according to a Guardia Civil spokesperson.

Now Nicolás Castellano, a journalist with Spain’s Cadena Ser radio station has turned the suitcase boy’s story into a book titled Me llamo Adou (My Name Is Adou).
Castellano narrates the odyssey of a family the Ivory Coast desperate to reunite after fleeing the poverty and violence of their West African homeland and argues that a “blunder” by the Spanish authorities was responsible for what happened to Adou, and that his father Ali was not to blame.
A French teacher, Ali was the first to leave the Ivory Coast and settle in Spain. He came illegally, on a boat that he and his traveling companions built themselves. The first attempt was unsuccessful, so he tried again and embarked on a journey that took him two years via Ghana, Burkino Faso, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and Morocco, where he was not only arrested and assaulted but also fell ill.
Three years later, once Alí had established himself in Spain’s Canary Islands and had obtained his residence papers, he set about bringing his family over so that they could be together again. First he brought his wife, Lucie, then his nine-year-old daughter, Miriam, but Adou, his youngest, was refused entry. “As the Ombudsman’s Office pointed out, the authorities did not apply the law correctly as Adou’s parents met all the requirements,” says Castellano.

“My dad wants me to be a doctor but I want to be a footballer like Messi”

Adou~

• Lucía Forero and María García

THE DALÍ FOUNDATION PAYS 2.1 MILLION FOR THE PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER'S SISTER

The painting of Ana Maria was not seen again since it was exposed in 1925 Three euros from 1929 to 2.1 million euros from 2017. There is nothing like the revaluation of works in the art market. In this case, the profile figure, the painting that Salvador Dalí painted in 1925 of his teenage sister sitting in front of a window and looking out to sea. In 1929, after Dalí's first exhibition at the Dalmau Galleries, Joaquim Cusi, a friend of the family, bought it for 500 pesetas and yesterday the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation bought it for 2,109,630 euros, exceeding the price of 700,000 euros That part of this lot in the London auction hall Bonhams, as he released yesterday in a statement the own foundation that watches over the interests of the artist.

 

 

                                                             

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda

INDIANA JONES 5 TO ARRIVE IN 2019

At his years (74, the same as a Harrison Ford), anyone would say that Professor Henry Jones Jr. is already more than ready to retire. But none of that. After many dimes and diretes, a statement from Disney has let us know that Indiana Jones 5 is not only going to shoot, but already has a release date: on July 19, 2019.

As the message continues, Steven Spielberg will repeat as director, while Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will also continue to produce the film. From the title and plot of the movie we still do not know anything. Well, yes: that the possibilities of seeing in him to Shia LaBeouf are taking null and void.

Does it make sense to further prolong the adventures of Indiana Jones? After all, it's been nine years since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull left a large chunk of the public cold. On the one hand, we can say that Ford, Spielberg and George Lucas (whose name does not appear in the Disney announcement) have the right to remove the thorn from a final chapter whose quality was questionable.

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda
  

12 PLAYERS IN NBA HISTORY SHORTER THAN ISAIAH THOMAS

The base of the Celtics measures 1.75 and in the history of ABA and the NBA there are only 12 players shorter than him. Muggsy Bogues the smallest: 1.60 meters.  

• Muggsy Bogues (1,60). 

The shortest player in NBA history was 14 seasons in the American League (Hornets, Bullets, Warriors and Raptors). In his first season it coincided in Bullets (equipment that drafteó in 1987, number 12) with Manute Bol (2.31) to him by then the highest player in the history of Liga. 

• Mel Hirsch (1.68)  

Almost a stranger. He played 13 games with the Celtics in the season 1946-47, after having fought in World War II with the American army. That course finished with 19 points and 10 assists (in total). He died at age 47 for leukemia. Until the irruption of Muggsy Bogues was the shortest player in NBA history.  

• Spud Webb (1,68)

The shortest player to win the All Star Game mates contest (surprisingly won his Atlanta teammate Dominique Wilkins) was rejected by his team for his height. He played 12 seasons in the NBA: Atlanta, Sacramento, Minnesota and Orlando. He closed the 1994-95 season as the best free thrower of the competition: 93.4%. 

• Greg Grant (1,70) 

Elected in the 1989 draft in the second round by the Suns (number 52), he was spotted on the streets when he matched basketball, high school, and a job at a fish store. A globetrotter. He played nine seasons in the NBA in six different teams (Suns, Knicks, Hornets, Sixers, Nuggets and Wizards). After his retirement he trained his Institute (Trenton Central) for five years: 100-32 of 100% approved balance among his players. 

• Jennings (1.70) 

An ex of Real Madrid among the smaller players. He played three seasons in the Golden State Warriors (1992-95) before testing in a Europe. In the Old Continent he was a globetrotter: he was in Estudiantes, Le Mans, Madrid (only 4 matches in ACB), Fenerbahçe, St. Petersburg, Strasbourg and Nancy. After hanging up his boots, he changed the courts on the benches.

• Wataru Miska (1.70) 

Son of Japanese, he was the first non-Caucasian player in the Basketball Association of America (BAA). He led his school (Ogden High School) in the national title, while other Americans with Japanese roots were in concentration camps. He played three games in the Knicks in The 1947-48 season: 2.3 points on average.  

• Mount Towe (1.70) 

Base holder of the NCAA Champion in 1974 (North Carolina State) also played baseball. His height gave him even prizes. In 1975 he received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award for Lower University players of 1.80. That year was drafted by the Hawks, but the base played in the Denver Nuggets two seasons (1975-77). 

• Charlie Criss (1.73) 

He played eight seasons in the NBA: Atlanta, Milwaukee and Clippers, but struggled to get there. After not being drafted, he played in the Hartford Capitols and the Scranton Apollos of the CBA. The worst team in history (the Washington Generals who lost again and again to the Globetrotters) was their jump to the NBA. Hubby Brown, coach of the Hawks, saw him and proposed to test the team. That summer he signed with Atlanta. 

• Dino Martin (1.73) 

He played two seasons at BAA's Providence Steamrollers. After a first promising campaign (12.2 points on average), it lowered its benefits (3.2). Years later he was coach of the Boston Eagles (NCAA) for nine years. 

• Willie Somerset (1.73)  

The Baltimore Bullets drafted him in the 1965 draft, but only played one season there. The next one was spent in the CBA and then landed in the Houston Mavericks, where he was the top scorer of the course (21.7 points). His last season at ABA was spent between Houston and New York. At the CBA, he won the title with the Scranton Apollos in 1971.

• Isabel López