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He bought a 127-year-old bottle of wine. Then, he opened it

In the private dining room of a Michelin-listed restaurant in east-central France, a small group of the world’s foremost wine authorities gathered reverently around a rather scruffy bottle, glasses at the ready.

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Mangled and bent, the Louvre heist’s surviving treasure is undergoing ‘complete restoration’
Hollywood’s power shoppers know what the rich want and they’ll do anything to get it

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They chose to die together on the Titanic. A reminder of their love story sold for a record amount

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The ‘D-Day watches’ made from WWII helmets — and beach sand from Normandy

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Everything we know about Royal Lodge, Prince Andrew’s 30-room mansion in Windsor

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Museum heists have changed. Why the Louvre robbery is a worrying escalation

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Historic jewels stolen in ‘national disaster’ for France: What we know about missing Louvre treasures

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