French-Iranian author, illustrator and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, creator of “Persepolis,” has died at 56. The Élysée Palace praised her as a leading figure in French culture and an artist devoted to freedom.
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Michigan State University has issued an apology after inappropriate content, including images of Adolf Hitler and his birthplace, was displayed on the video board prior to their football game against No. 2 Michigan. MSU is actively investigating the source of the content and has promised to take appropriate action to ensure this does not happen again.
Three artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, previously owned by Fritz Grünbaum, were seized by New York law enforcement authorities as part of a joint investigation. The artworks were taken from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio. The seizure is part of a larger effort to return stolen art to its rightful owners and to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the theft of art during the Holocaust.
Austrian police arrested a 54-year-old man on Monday after he attacked two social workers with pepper spray when they arrived to investigate reports of a family living illegally in a wine cellar. The social workers found the man living with a woman and six children, aged from 7 months to 5 years old. The man was arrested and the woman and children were taken to a safe location.
An avalanche on Mount Hakuba Norikura in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, on Sunday afternoon resulted in the death of two skiers, one of whom was an American pro freeskier. The other three skiers were unharmed, and the cause of the avalanche is still under investigation. The Nagano Prefectural police have expressed their condolences and reminded skiers to take extra caution when skiing in the backcountry.