Aborigine skulls to be taken home

In 2004 The UK government launched a consultation document to consider the repatriation of human remains held in Britain to aboriginal groups and based on the news included below it would appear the the correct decision was eventually made. Thousands of ancient human parts -...

Kenya wants Tsavo man-eaters back

"Kenya is trying to recover the remains of two infamous lions which killed 140 railway workers in the 19th Century. They are the legendary man-eaters of Tsavo who caused havoc among the Indian labourers who built the railway line between Mombasa and Lake Victoria. The lions'...

German Army Racism Scandal: "Pretend You're Shooting at Blacks"

This is precisely the sort of publicity that Germany has been trying to avoid. A socially liberal country, Germany, like much of Europe, has seen racism and xenophobia creeping in from the fringes of society and into the fore."A video showing a German army instructor telling...

Mud, skulls, and dead fish a chapel makes

The Guardian reports: "Gothic architecture and contemporary art have become unlikely bedfellows [at the Seo cathedral in Palma, on the island of Majorca] after the artist Miquel Barceló was commissioned to cover one of its chapels with a vast ceramic tableau of cracked mud,...