Russian police pull over speeding hearse full of caviar; Flower power in Chile’s Desert

Italy: that’s modern art, not rubbish!

Itay’s Museion Bozen-Bolzano museum has apologised to contemporary art duo Goldschmied & Chiari, after their installation was thrown away by cleaners who thought that it was trash.

"This morning cleaning staff removed the recently inaugurated installation, ‘Dove Andiamo a Ballare Questa Sera?’‘ (‘Where shall we go dancing tonight?’)” the museum wrote on Facebook on 24 October.

The gallery pledged to restore the piece as soon as possible.

The artwork has been reconstructed. Or redestructed

Russia: speeding hearse full of caviar

Police in Russia’s far east pulled over a hearse speeding on a motorway, only to discover half a tonne of caviar stashed inside.

When police officers asked the driver of the vehicle, which was speeding on a road near Khabarovsk, not far from the Chinese border – to open the car they found plastic containers of caviar hidden under the wreaths lying next to a casket.

More caviar was found inside the casket, which did not contain a body.

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Greece-Italy: shock at 24,000 euro TV interview with Varoufakis

Italian politicians have expressed outrage after it emerged that public broadcaster RAI paid Greece’s flamboyant former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis 24,000 euros for a 22-minute interview.

The fee – equivalent to more than 1,000 euros a minute – was paid to Varoufakis for an appearance on RAI 3 on 27 September, along with a first-class plane ticket.

Varoufakis has said he is releasing details of his earnings for recent media and public speaking gigs to dispel claims that he has been on a "self-enrichment drive” since resigning from the Greek government in July.

(euronews.com)