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Picasso Painting Disappears en route to Granada Exhibit

File Photo: A 19-by-20-foot theater curtain "Le Tricorne" painted by Pablo Picasso hangs at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar
File Photo: A 19-by-20-foot theater curtain "Le Tricorne" painted by Pablo Picasso hangs at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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Picasso Painting Disappears en route to Granada Exhibit

File Photo: A 19-by-20-foot theater curtain "Le Tricorne" painted by Pablo Picasso hangs at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar
File Photo: A 19-by-20-foot theater curtain "Le Tricorne" painted by Pablo Picasso hangs at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar

A 1919 Pablo Picasso painting has disappeared in transit ahead of its display at a temporary exhibition in the southern Spanish city of Granada, prompting a police investigation, according to the foundation organising the exhibit.

The CajaGranada Foundation said in a statement late on Thursday that the missing piece - a small framed gouache titled "Still life with guitar" - was part of a larger shipment of artworks moved from Madrid to the Andalusian city for the exhibition "Still life. The eternity of the inert".

The foundation confirmed on Friday that the painting, owned by a private collector and measuring 13 x 10 centimetres (5 x 4 inches), was insured for an appraised value of 600,000 euros ($700,000), Reuters reported.

The shipment was delivered to the CajaGranada cultural centre on the morning of October 3, a Friday.

The loss was not discovered until the following Monday, when the exhibit's curator and the foundation's head of exhibitions began unpacking the crates.

"As not all packages were properly numbered, it was not possible to carry out a thorough check without unpacking them," the foundation added.

The CajaGranada Foundation said it had reviewed the security footage from that weekend and confirmed "no incident occurred" during that time.

After discovering the painting was missing, the foundation filed a complaint with Spain's national police.

The organisation said it has made all its resources available to investigators and expressed confidence in the authorities' ability to resolve the case.

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Rescuers Try to Refloat Stranded Humpback Whale in Germany’s Baltic Sea

23 March 2026, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Timmendorf: Experts from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW) and firefighters free a whale stranded on the Baltic Sea coast off Niendorf. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/dpa
23 March 2026, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Timmendorf: Experts from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW) and firefighters free a whale stranded on the Baltic Sea coast off Niendorf. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/dpa
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Rescuers Try to Refloat Stranded Humpback Whale in Germany’s Baltic Sea

23 March 2026, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Timmendorf: Experts from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW) and firefighters free a whale stranded on the Baltic Sea coast off Niendorf. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/dpa
23 March 2026, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Timmendorf: Experts from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW) and firefighters free a whale stranded on the Baltic Sea coast off Niendorf. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/dpa

Rescue teams in northern Germany are working to refloat a humpback whale stranded in shallow water in the Baltic Sea.

Experts gathered Tuesday morning on the Timmendorfer Strand beach to find a way to pull the 10-meter-long (30-feet-long) mammal off the ground after the high tide around midnight was not sufficient for the animal to swim free under its own power, German news agency dpa reported.

Earlier rescue efforts on Monday afternoon with police boats, inflatable boats and the help of firefighter drones guiding the rescue efforts were also unsuccessful.

The animal is still alive, it breathes, makes sounds and occasionally lifts its head, Carsten Mannheimer of the marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd told dpa.

Experts assume that the whale is a young male, as males, unlike females, tend to migrate. It also seems to be the same whale that has been spotted several times in the port of Wismar in eastern Germany in recent weeks.

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Pakistan Ranked Most Polluted Country in 2025, Data Shows

Commuters make their way amid smog in Lahore on November 2, 2024. (AFP)
Commuters make their way amid smog in Lahore on November 2, 2024. (AFP)
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Pakistan Ranked Most Polluted Country in 2025, Data Shows

Commuters make their way amid smog in Lahore on November 2, 2024. (AFP)
Commuters make their way amid smog in Lahore on November 2, 2024. (AFP)

Pakistan was ranked the world's smoggiest ‌country in 2025, with concentrations of hazardous small particles known as PM2.5 up to 13 times higher than the recommended World Health Organization level, research showed on Tuesday.

Swiss air quality monitoring firm IQAir said in its annual report that 13 countries and territories kept average PM2.5 levels at the WHO standard of less than 5 micrograms per cubic meter last year, up from seven in 2024.

In total, 130 out of 143 monitored countries and territories failed to meet the WHO guideline.

Bangladesh ‌and Tajikistan were ‌second and third on the most polluted list.

Chad, ⁠statistically the smoggiest ⁠country of 2024, ranked fourth in 2025, but the decline in PM2.5 concentrations last year is likely to be the result of data gaps.

Last March, the United States shut down a global monitoring program that compiled pollution data collected from its embassy and consulate buildings, citing budget constraints.

"The loss of the data in March made it ⁠appear there was a significant drop in PM2.5 levels (in ‌Chad), but the fact of ‌the matter is that we don't know," said Christi Chester Schroeder, lead author of ‌the IQAir report.

The US decision eliminated a primary data ‌source for many smog-prone countries, and Burundi, Turkmenistan and Togo were excluded from the 2025 report because of information gaps.

India's Loni was the world's most polluted city in 2025, with average PM2.5 levels of 112.5 micrograms, ‌followed by Hotan in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang at 109.6 micrograms.

The world's top 25 most ⁠polluted cities ⁠were all in India, Pakistan and China.

Only 14% of the world's cities met the WHO standard in 2025, down from 17% a year earlier, with Canadian wildfires driving up PM2.5 across the United States and as far as Europe.

Among the countries that met the standard in 2025 were Australia, Iceland, Estonia and Panama.

Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia all reported significant PM2.5 reductions compared to the previous year, thanks mainly to wetter and windier La Nina weather. Mongolia saw average concentrations fall 31% to 17.8 micrograms per cubic meter.

In all, 75 countries reported lower PM2.5 levels in 2025 compared to a year earlier, with 54 recording higher average concentrations, IQAir said.

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UK Pet Owners to Get Price Comparison Tools, Fee Caps Under New Vet Services Rules

FILE PHOTO: Principle vet Kate Russell takes blood from Po the cat during a Vets Now clinic in Farnham, southern England, October 27, 2013. REUTERS/Darren Staples
FILE PHOTO: Principle vet Kate Russell takes blood from Po the cat during a Vets Now clinic in Farnham, southern England, October 27, 2013. REUTERS/Darren Staples
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UK Pet Owners to Get Price Comparison Tools, Fee Caps Under New Vet Services Rules

FILE PHOTO: Principle vet Kate Russell takes blood from Po the cat during a Vets Now clinic in Farnham, southern England, October 27, 2013. REUTERS/Darren Staples
FILE PHOTO: Principle vet Kate Russell takes blood from Po the cat during a Vets Now clinic in Farnham, southern England, October 27, 2013. REUTERS/Darren Staples

Britain's veterinary services will be required to implement price transparency measures, cap prescription fees, while large chains will have to disclose their ownership, the competition watchdog said on Tuesday, as it moved to shake up the 6.7-billion-pound ($9 billion) sector.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) final reforms, which mark the end of its two-and-a-half-year probe into the sector, followed proposals it set out last October to overhaul the ⁠country's vet services ⁠market.

Vet group CVS Group said some of the CMA's remedies were not "fully justified", but added it was comfortable with them and believes they are workable.

Here are some details on the new rules.

⁠Written prescription fees will be capped at 21 pounds for the first medicine and 12.50 pounds for any additional medicines, down from 30 pounds or more at many practices.

Veterinary businesses must clearly display whether they are part of a chain or independent.

All practices must publish comprehensive price lists for standard services, including consultations, procedures, diagnostics and ⁠cremation ⁠options; currently, less than 40% have prices on their websites.

Practices must provide written estimates in advance for any treatment expected to cost 500 pounds or more, with itemized bills.

The CMA will have six months to impose legally binding orders on businesses, meaning all remedies will be in place by September 23, 2026, with most taking effect within three to 12 months after that.