On Saturday, a pair of red shoes worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz was sold at auction for a record-breaking $28 million. That makes the slippers the most expensive movie item ever sold. The sale is the latest chapter in the slippers' complicated history.
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Two missing notebooks belonging to the scientist Charles Darwin were secretly returned to the Cambridge University Library recently. The stolen notebooks, which had been missing for over 20 years, were returned in good condition.
In today's news roundup, a teen's political message, hidden in a beauty video, spreads across the internet, police are still looking for thieves who stole jewels from Dresden's Green Vault, and farmers in Russia test virtual reality for cows.
Thirteen years after they were stolen, a pair of red slippers from The Wizard of Oz have been found. The FBI tracked the shoes down in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Police in Paraguay are trying to figure out what happened to 42 rifles that disappeared from the police storage area. Whoever took the rifles left toy rifles in their place.
Thieves in Sweden have stolen royal crowns from a display case in a church. In a daring robbery, thieves smashed the case and took the treasures away in a motorboat.
Visitors to a Texas aquarium stole a shark on Saturday. They wrapped it up, put it in a baby stroller, and rolled it away. The shark has been found, unhurt.
Thieves may have stolen almost $20 million from banks in Mexico. It looks like the thieves found a way to steal the money using computers.
A famous stolen painting was found by French government officers on Friday, February 16. Where did they find it? Inside a suitcase on a bus!
Thieves stole jewels worth millions of dollars from a famous hotel in Paris, France. Three of the thieves were caught, but others got away.