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The article presents the discussion on Ana Beatriz da Silva's childhood experience in a cramped maid's room has shaped her view on the outdated and inequitable practice of including such rooms in Brazilian homes. Topics include Brazil's reckoning with its history of slavery, the role of architecture in perpetuating inequality; and the growing rejection of these spaces by younger generations.

The article reports on the inauguration by the nonprofit organization Powerhouse Arts of its Powerhouse Arts artistic production building in Brooklyn, New York. The facility was designed by architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in cooperation with PBDW Architects and will house fabrication shops for ceramics, printmaking, public art, and woodworking. The fund used in the construction was donated by philanthropist Joshua Rechnitz.

The article reports on the helicopter brigades of Ukraine that go into battle against enemy forces, launching rocket attacks in support of ground troops since the first day of the Russian invasion. A background on the Soviet-era helicopters used by Ukrainian forces is provided. It informs about efforts of Ukraine to adapting their tactics to fight Russia such as an attack flying method below the tree line, as well as the superiority of the Ukrainian aviation's air defense systems over Russia.

The article focuses on Hayao Miyazaki's hand-drawn animation in his new film, "The Boy and the Heron," praising its classical style, but notes that the movie, like many modern anime films, extensively uses computer animation, blending techniques seamlessly.

The article focuses on the recovery and return of Monument 9, a 2,600-year-old Olmec stone carving, which was looted from a Mexican archaeological site nearly 60 years ago, smuggled into the U.S., and recently seized by U.S. authorities.

The article focuses on discovery of a specimen of the giant lacewing, a species thought extinct in eastern North America, by entomologist Michael Skvarla, which raises questions about how a population of the insect can have existed in the region without being detected in the internet era.

The article presents the weapons used by Russia in its barbaric invasion of Ukraine, including its alleged use of old and banned weapons. According to Vanderbilt University law professor Mike Newton, the Russian invaders have violated the principles of international humanitarian laws and treaties, including the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Among the weapons used by Russia are unguided munitions, rockets, and bombs.

The article reports that American officials has handed back 2,700 year old looted item to Palestinian Authority in Bethlehem.

The article reports information about the Patrimony Warehouse on Staten Island in New York City that serves as a storehouse for sacred items such as altars and incense censers. Topics mentioned include the goal of the warehouse to preserve the kinds of relics that wound up in antique shops, the film "Being John Malkovich," and parish closings and mergers in 2014 under a planning process called Making All Things New.

The article focuses on "People call me Dog Tag Man," said AIberth Wakum, who hopes one day to open a museum showcasing his discoveries and are mote coral island in Indonesia, a history lover who keeps a collection of old bombs in his living room scours the jungle for war relics.

The article reports on how former plunderer and artifacts looter Toek Tik is helping the government of Cambodia to recover its looted cultural relics around the world. Also cited are the move by Cambodian officials to pressure the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to return 45 artifacts, and the claim by Tik that his other clients include art collector and dealer Douglas A. J. Latchford.

The article focuses on the depths of the mighty Danube River, the hulking wrecks of several dozen German World War II ships have risen once again, exposed by a drought that has starved Europe rivers and led to some of the lowest water levels of the past century.

The article presents the discussion on transforming industrial relics spuring population growth for the first time in 70 years. Topics include citywide initiatives pouring billions into parks, public an projects, and apartment complexes; and nonprofit group at works for repurposing empty cityowned lots.

The article reports on overturned court case Roe v. Wade that allows banning of abortion and mentions doctors performing abortion to be found guilty under the ban in Wisconsin.

The article reports on the move by the Museum of Ethnography in Sweden to return the sacred Maaso Kova ceremonial deer's head to its owner the Yaqui Nation after member Andrea Carmen saw the artefact at the museum during an event.

The article explores century-old tracks that cut through the modern metropolis of Amman, a historic train blared a horn to announce its departure.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experiences of witnessing the operation of the restored Union Pacific steam locomotive 4014, which is scheduled to tour the U.S. for 34 days.

Cites the results of an analysis showing that the Shroud of Turin is much older than the medieval date that modern science has affixed to it and could be old enough to have been the burial wrapping of Jesus Christ.

The article talks about the old Portuguese Settlement of Malacca , along with discusses the Malacca's multicultural heritage.

The article discusses that voters cast off that relic, too, ending the two-party stasis in Irish politics with a breakout vote for Sinn Fein, a party that long shunned by the mainstream for its ties to the Irish Republican Anny, a paramilitary group that sought the reunification of Ireland.

The article focuses on climate change and fire in Australia which has obliterated and mentions that Blenkinses has been fighting fires across mountain town Batlow.

The article focuses on high-tech parking system in high end buildings in New York, for cars. Topics include features such as invisibility and its use as cover; its popularity among Celebrities, very important person (V.I.P.s) and ultra-high-net worth types; and it's no usage in older buildings for accommodation of cars.

The article analyzes why European countries consider the restitution of stolen treasures and mentions the slow progress of restitution.

The article reports that the stone head of the pharaoh Tutankhamen was sold at Christie's auction house for 6 million dollars, despite the protests from Egyptian officials and others.

The article focuses on the Fuentidueña apse, a soaring, handsomely proportioned structure that once held the altar of a 12th-century chapel in Spain, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The article focuses on an old-style walk-in phone booth which was discovered in New York City by a work crew on February 10, 2016. It states that the phone booth became famous for being the last of its kind, and it was once ubiquitous on city sidewalks and a staple in films and on television. It mentions the installation of a new phone booth by technicians in the area where in old phone booth was found.

The article reports on the arrival at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, New York City of the cloak and glove relics by St. Padre Pio on September 17, 2017.

The article reports that St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, New York will display the relics of Roman Catholic saint known as Padre Pio for veneration and the Sistine Chapel Choir from the St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City will perform during the mass.

The article reports that a new excavation at an aboriginal rock shelter called Madjedbebe has turned up human relics which date back 65,000 years and the other findings from researchers ta the University of Queensland is also mentioned.

The author discusses how the book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo helps her to dispense with meaningful possessions after her mother's death and detaching herself from her relics and moving toward a life.

The article reports on the tears and angers of residents of Mosul, Iraq when the Sunni extremists destroyed the grave site of the biblical prophet Jonah, whose story was featured in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism traditions, in July 2014.

The article focuses on the evolution and changes on how people perceive death and mortality. The author mentions during ancient times body parts of dead people were taken and made into sacred relics and people gather together to honor the dead. She states that the celebration of Halloween in the modern generation has changed, wherein the spirits and ghosts people appease have been replaced by children wearing their costumes asking for treats.

Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week. AUSTIN [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DUBLIN -- In what seems like a surreal subplot from a Dan Brown novel, a number of irreplaceable religious relics have disappeared from churches across the country, the Irish police and a senior cleric say. The latest in a series of such thefts involved the removal of the preserved heart of St. Laurence O'Toole, Dublin's 12th-century patron saint, from the city's historic Christ Church Cathedral. As there was no sign of forced entry to the cathedral itself, the dean of Christ Church, Dermot Dunne, initially believed the thief had probably hidden in the building when it closed on Friday evening, taken the artifact overnight and simply walked out the next morning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIJING -- Even in its prime, the house at 24 Beizongbu Hutong was no architectural jewel, just one of countless brick-and-timber courtyard homes that clogged the labyrinthine heart of this ancient imperial capital. But for seven years in the 1930s, it sheltered one of modern China's most fabled couples, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, Ivy League-educated architects who had returned home to champion the notion that a great nation should hold dear its historic patrimony. It was Mr. Liang, the debonair son from an illustrious family of intellectuals, who urged the victorious Communists to preserve Beijing's Yuan dynasty grid and its hulking city walls. Mao, the country's unsentimental leader, thought otherwise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The long title of the play: ''The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell.'' The short review: excellent. That's a simple way to sum up this co-production by the Storm Theater and the Blackfriars Repertory Theater. But there's no one word to convey the pleasure of discovering an exciting work when you'd been dreading a musty old relic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WITH Oaxaca's imposing Baroque churches, plant-filled courtyards and shady plazas perfect for people-watching, it's tempting to see the city as a photogenic relic of Mexico's colonial past. But Oaxaca City, the capital of one of the country's poorest states and a college town teeming with students, isn't quaint or stagnant; it's a small but dynamic city, still emerging economically from the social unrest that put it in the international spotlight, and crippled its tourism industry, in 2006. That uprising -- a protest by striking teachers that was met with police violence and led to a protracted conflict -- is now history, but its legacy is everywhere in a streetscape of politically inspired stencil art, which has turned adobe walls and concrete sidewalks into a public gallery. Combined with the city's long-established studio art scene, a vibrant cafe culture, a mescal-fueled night life and one of Mexico's most exciting regional cuisines, Oaxaca is as cosmopolitan as it is architecturally stunning. Friday [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The parishioners of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Long Beach may well think their prayers have been answered. Police officials say they recovered a nearly 800-year-old relic of St. Anthony -- the patron saint of lost objects -- from the home of Maria Solis, who they say stole it from the church on Monday. Rico Fernandez, a spokesman for the Long Beach Police Department, said officers used surveillance video from a nearby business to identify Ms. Solis, 41, who was arrested on burglary charges. Mr. Fernandez said that the relic appeared to be undamaged and was promptly returned to the church on Thursday, but that officers were still questioning Ms. Solis. The relic had been on rare display for Mass last Sunday, and church officials realized early Monday that it had disappeared from its glass case. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the company of 109 other daredevils, you'd step into a giant glass bubble. As the bubble is suspended, somewhat unconvincingly, from a length of wire, you'd all be pulled up off the ground and out away from solid land. Higher, farther, higher, farther -- until you were dangling 230 feet above the East River. David Blaine stunt or morning commute? In November, New Yorkers will get the chance to decide, when the Roosevelt Island trams return to service after a seven-month hiatus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To the Editor: Re ''On Your Left, Another Relic of the Bust'' (Jan. 3) which described a tour of foreclosed homes in Cape Coral, Fla.: [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RELICS ON DISPLAY At Cooper Union [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There are many ways to piece together the fragments of the past, to rescue them from burial or ruin or accident or decay, and give them a new sense and meaning. Maybe that's one of the jobs of museums: to reconstitute the remnants of a once thriving world. For example, on West 44th Street, through the back entrance of the building in which The New York Times was once produced, in a basement that contained printing presses, you will find a reconstituted space called Discovery Times Square Exposition, in which varied museological reconstitutions are also on display, with results ranging from the bewildering and banal to the suggestive and entertaining. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A two-year investigation of religious artifacts and relics found in the home of an Illinois collector in 2007 has determined that 1,600 of them were stolen, the Web site ChicagoBreakingNews.com reported. On Monday federal officials announced the result of its investigation into the collection of John Sisto, who after his death in 2007 was discovered to have kept more than 3,500 works in his bungalow in Berwyn, Ill., including documents written by kings and popes and the preface to a book handwritten by Mussolini. An F.B.I. spokesman told the Web site that the stolen items, one shown above, were believed to be worth between $5 million and $10 million and were to be returned to Italy later this week. The F.B.I. said there would be no American criminal prosecutions stemming from the theft, transportation or possession of the items. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The items were sometimes delicate, often minimalist and always haunting: a monogrammed silver matchbox; a gold locket with a butterfly design; a letter-opener, its sturdy handle embellished with an eagle and a swastika. Up for auction here on Thursday, the relics fetched record prices and even spurred bidding wars, purely because of their history: They are believed to be among items owned by Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. While the recession may mean that many Americans have been wrestling their overworked credit cards back into their wallets and cutting back on expenses large and small, some collectors have been paying record prices for historic artifacts. At Alexander Autographs, a small auctioneer that expected to generate about $800,000 in sales at its two-day auction, sales reached nearly $600,000 on Wednesday. By Thursday, they were edging toward $1 million. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]