Institutions across the world in recent years have begun to acknowledge the importance of returning significant cultural items while still promoting global access to heritage. As part of this new framework, Greece has agreed to loan the griffin head back to the Met for future exhibitions, Mendoni said. Athens is hoping the new, more open approach will boost its decades-long campaign for the return of the
, which shut Europe’s airspace for days.Passengers on about 120 flights were in the air when Friday’s closure was announced and found themselves landing in different cities, and even different countries.
Mark Doherty and his wife were halfway across the Atlantic when the inflight map showed their flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Heathrow was returning to New York.“I was like, you’re joking,” Doherty said.He called the situation “typical England — got no back-up plan for something happens like this. There’s no contingency plan.”
Associated Press journalist Kwiyeon Ha at Heathrow Airport contributed to this report.conjured up what initially appeared — to the chair umpire, to everyone watching in the stands or on TV and to his opponent,
— a remarkable lunging volley to win a point at the
But Alcaraz knew it shouldn’t count. So after briefly thinking about it, the defending champion at Roland-Garros fessed up and called himself for breaking the rules, handing the point to Shelton during what would become a 7-6 (8), 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victory for Alcaraz in the fourth round.Yet at the same time, the Trump administration has been trying
for endangered and threatened species. Environmentalists say habitat destruction is the biggest cause of extinction.Patrick Donnelly, director of the center’s work across the Great Basin where the tui chub is found, said Nevada can’t afford to lose any more of its native fish species, like the Ash Meadows killifish and Raycraft Ranch springfish that became extinct decades ago.
“The Fish Lake Valley tui chub is barely clinging to existence,” he said. “I’m thrilled these fish are poised to get the life-saving protections they urgently need.”Under the Endangered Species Act, it is illegal to kill, import, export, possess or transport those species.