Emergency workers in central Guatemala say at least 30 people died when a bus plunged 200m down a hillside and into a river. More than 40 people were injured. The accident happened in the mountainous municipality of San Martín Jilotepeque, which mainly has dirt roads that wind through steep mountains.
A previously unknown landscape painting by Vincent van Gogh has been identified by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Sunset at Montmajour had spent years in a Norwegian private collector’s attic after he’d been told the work was not by the Dutch master. After using new research tools, a team of experts worked for two years to authenticate it. Teio Meedendorp was one of the team.
“There wasn’t one Eureka moment. It’s a succession of moments. You are ticking all the boxes. You work methodically. You check the paint, the canvas, try to get the origin right. And it turned out all those pieced together very well. A succession of moments and the puzzle gets more complete.”
Several thousand supporters of the anti-government campaigner Alexei Navalny have held a rally in Moscow to protest against the outcome of the city’s mayor election. Official result showed the pro-Kremlin incumbent Sergei Sobyanin won with 51% of the vote. Mr Navalny polled 27%. He’s alleged the election was rigged. Moscow’s electoral commission has rejected his demand for a recount.
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