The custodian of a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland say they are deeply shocked and outraged of allegations that a Swedish artist took ashes from the site and used them in one of his paintings. Officials from the Majdanek museum said they hope the authorities was quickly established whether the allegations were true. Adam Easton reports.
From a Swedish gallery's website to promote Mr.Von Hausswolff's exhibition, it says he visited the camp in 1999 and collected ashes from a crematoria. There are remain in a jar until two years ago, when the visual artist and composer decided to mix them with water and used them in a painting as a reminder of the people tortured and murdered in the camp. Musume official said the painting may be artistic provocation, but it deserved only condemnation. The museum estimates the Nazis murdered 80,000 people in Midanic, three quarters of them, Jewish.
Forty-eight countries have agreed to unite their efforts against child sexual abuse online. The signatures included the United States, all European Union members, Nigeira, Thailand and the Phillippines. At the lunch in Brussels they said they will boost joint efforts to identify victims, prosecute offenders and stamp out the trend in online images of child sexual abuse.
The pioneer in Jazz musician, Dave Brubeck has died a day before his 92 birthday in the American state of Connecticut. The Dave Brubeck Quartet pieces such as Take Five, caught listener's ears with challenging rhythms had becoming enduring standards. Take Five was the first Jazz instrumental to sell more than a million copies.