Ancient Egyptian artifacts recovered after heist from Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology – Courtesy of Queensland Police Queensland police say they’ve recovered 4 priceless artifacts of ancient Egyptian antiquity that had been stolen from a museum earlier this month. The world is experiencing a rash of unsolved museum break-ins lately, but thanks to superb … Read more
A C for Unsplash+ In northern Alberta, a restorative justice program is making a huge difference in a closely-knit community. With just 68,000 residents, putting someone from Fort McMurray in prison or juvenile detention has a big impact. Instead, a restorative justice program established for the town’s youth in 2022 has been expanded to include … Read more
Gary Tou – unsplash From Thailand comes a story that’s pure Hollywood: police going undercover as festival lion dancers to nab a suspected art thief. Dressed as the rump and head of a large Asian lion costume during Lunar New Year festivities, the police sprang upon the suspect and took him into custody, phone cameras … Read more
Fr0ggy – via unsplash It was only a few months ago that Juan Leon became the proud owner of Minnesota’s newest tow truck service. Not long after, he began to get calls about abandoned vehicles and realized there was a pattern. Whether it was parked on the side of the street or in the lot … Read more
Heidi Price with her llamas -SWNS A would-be thief was caught by police after a herd of llamas cornered the suspect in a field until officers could arrive. It was dark outside when a man was alerted to an intruder on the couple’s farmland by animals making a loud alarm call last Monday evening. The … Read more
Revolution Wind under construction – credit Wosketomp, CC BY-SA 4.0 A district court judge struck down the stop-work order on the Sunrise Wind project, marking the fifth time courts have overturned the Department of Interior’s order halting work on 5 offshore wind projects under construction along America’s eastern seaboard. Sunrise Wind now joins Coastal Virginia … Read more
– credit Anna Dziubinska on Unsplash Homicides in London have fallen to a decade low of 97 during the year just ended, a Metropolitan Police report revealed. At a rate of 1.1 per 100,000 people, it’s lower than New York (2.8), Berlin (3.2) and Milan (1.6), according to the BBC. When measured in this way, … Read more
credit – Campbell Jensen Of all the challenges Zohran Mamdani will face taking charge of the biggest city in the US, shootings isn’t one of them, as the Big Apple recorded fewer in 2025 than any year on record. “In 2025, New York City recorded 688 shooting incidents, the lowest number in the city’s … Read more
Poaching suspects and the elephant ivory they were holding in Angola – credit, INTERPOL, released INTERPOL recently executed the largest-ever edition of its annual series of coordinated of raids to dismantle criminal shipments and networks of trafficked and poached wildlife. Called Operation Thunder, some 30,000 live animals were seized in 4,620 raids across 134 countries, … Read more