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Banksy Artwork Showing Drones on STOP Sign Stolen in London

22 December 2023, United Kingdom, London: A person removes a piece of art work by Banksy, which shows what looks like three military drones on a traffic stop sign. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire/dpa
22 December 2023, United Kingdom, London: A person removes a piece of art work by Banksy, which shows what looks like three military drones on a traffic stop sign. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire/dpa
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Banksy Artwork Showing Drones on STOP Sign Stolen in London

22 December 2023, United Kingdom, London: A person removes a piece of art work by Banksy, which shows what looks like three military drones on a traffic stop sign. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire/dpa
22 December 2023, United Kingdom, London: A person removes a piece of art work by Banksy, which shows what looks like three military drones on a traffic stop sign. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire/dpa

The latest artwork by British street artist Banksy showing three drones plastered across a "STOP" traffic sign in south London was removed by an unidentified man shortly after it was unveiled by its creator on Friday.
Pictures and videos posted online showed the man, with assistance from another person, using pliers to break the sign off its post and run off with it as passersby looked on.
Banksy posted a picture of the artwork on his website as well as on Instagram, where he has more than 12 million followers.

People commenting on Banksy's Instagram accurately predicted it wouldn’t be there long after the artist posted a photo of it. Some of his work has sold for tens of millions of dollars.

“I went there thinking that people want that, I wanted to see it before something happened to it," a man who only wanted to be known as Alex told the Press Association.

The red STOP sign had grey drone-like aircraft flying diagonally across it.
Banksy usually provides confirmation of his work on social media, but gives few other details.

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Australian Woman Unknowingly Gives Birth to a Stranger's Baby after IVF Error

FILE - Lab staff prepare small petri dishes, each holding several 1-7 day old embryos, for cells to be extracted from each embryo to test for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)
FILE - Lab staff prepare small petri dishes, each holding several 1-7 day old embryos, for cells to be extracted from each embryo to test for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)
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Australian Woman Unknowingly Gives Birth to a Stranger's Baby after IVF Error

FILE - Lab staff prepare small petri dishes, each holding several 1-7 day old embryos, for cells to be extracted from each embryo to test for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)
FILE - Lab staff prepare small petri dishes, each holding several 1-7 day old embryos, for cells to be extracted from each embryo to test for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)

A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient's embryo from her in vitro fertilization clinic due to “human error,” the clinic said.
The mix-up was discovered in February when the clinic in the city of Brisbane found that the birth parents had one too many embryos in storage, said the provider, Monash IVF, in a statement supplied Friday. Staff discovered an embryo from another patient had been mistakenly thawed and transferred to the birth mother, The Associated Press quoted a spokesperson as saying.
Australia news outlets reported the baby was born in 2024.
The company, one of Australia’s biggest IVF providers, said an initial investigation had not uncovered any other such errors. Its statement didn’t identify the patients involved or divulge details about the child's custody.
“All of us at Monash IVF are devastated and we apologize to everyone involved,” said CEO Michael Knaap. “We will continue to support the patients through this extremely distressing time.”
The “human error” was made “despite strict laboratory safety protocols being in place,” the statement said. The company said it had reported the episode to the relevant regulator in the state of Queensland.
Monash IVF opened in 1971 and sees patients in dozens of locations throughout Australia. Last year, the firm settled a class action lawsuit from more than 700 patients, making no admission of liability, after claims its clinics destroyed potentially viable embryos.
The clinic paid a settlement of 56 million Australian dollars ($35 million).
Rare cases of embryo mix-ups have been reported before, including in the United States, Britain, Israel and Europe. A woman in the US state of Georgia in February filed a lawsuit against a fertility clinic after she gave birth to a stranger’s baby.
Krystena Murray realized the error after the baby's birth because she and her sperm donor were both white and the child was Black. Murray said she wanted to raise the baby but voluntarily gave the 5-month-old to his biological parents after she was told she would not win a legal fight for his custody.
In Australia, each state makes its own laws and rules governing the use of IVF, which advocates say puts patients at risk of error or oversight failings. Queensland’s parliament passed its first laws regulating the sector in 2024.
The measures will establish a registry for all people conceived at a clinic and made the destruction of donors’ medical histories illegal. The change followed an official report that lambasted the storage of frozen sperm donations in Queensland, finding nearly half of samples checked were at medium or high risk of misidentification and recommending thousands be destroyed.
Australia’s states and territories “need to see if their regulations are up to scratch,” the Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth told the Today news program Friday.
“Confidence needs to be brought back and it’s imperative that happens.”