Madonna Takes Children Back To David's Orphanage In Malawi, Reunites With Dad
The president of Malawi has met Madonna’s adopted daughter and son. President Peter Mutharika thanked the US pop star on Friday for bri...
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The president of Malawi has met Madonna’s adopted daughter and son.
President Peter Mutharika thanked the US pop star on Friday for bringing her Malawi-born children Mercy and David back to their birth country.
Friday’s meeting was symbolic for Madonna, who had a public falling-out with former President Joyce Banda. ‘‘Thank you for welcoming me here. I was a big fan of your brother. He was very kind to us,’’ Madonna said of Mutharika’s older brother Bingu wa Mutharika.
Madonna has been visiting Malawi since 2006. She funds a number of orphanages and schools in the country. On Thursday she helped open a new 50-bed pediatrics ward in the commercial capital, Blantyre, that she helped fund.
Nazi art theft alleged
The Jewish Claims Conference says it has already identified one painting as art stolen by the Nazis among a newly published inventory of hundreds of works that belonged to late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt. Executive vice president Greg Schneider said in an e-mail Friday that a Pissaro among about 250 artworks found in Gurlitt’s Salzburg property matched one on a Claims Conference looted-art list. Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Bern, which inherited the collection, posted online lists of the Salzburg works and some of the 1,280 others found in Gurlitt’s Munich apartment. The museum says it will investigate the provenance of the works and expects to decide in three months which to turn over as possibly looted art.
Rourke wins in ring
Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke returned to the boxing ring Friday at the age of 62, defeating a fighter less than half his age in an exhibition bout in Moscow. Rourke sent Elliot Seymour, a 29-year-old former California Golden Gloves champion with a 1-9 professional record, to the canvas twice in the second round before the referee stopped the fight. The bout was Rourke’s first fight in 20 years.
Source: Boston Globe
President Peter Mutharika thanked the US pop star on Friday for bringing her Malawi-born children Mercy and David back to their birth country.
Friday’s meeting was symbolic for Madonna, who had a public falling-out with former President Joyce Banda. ‘‘Thank you for welcoming me here. I was a big fan of your brother. He was very kind to us,’’ Madonna said of Mutharika’s older brother Bingu wa Mutharika.
Madonna has been visiting Malawi since 2006. She funds a number of orphanages and schools in the country. On Thursday she helped open a new 50-bed pediatrics ward in the commercial capital, Blantyre, that she helped fund.
Nazi art theft alleged
The Jewish Claims Conference says it has already identified one painting as art stolen by the Nazis among a newly published inventory of hundreds of works that belonged to late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt. Executive vice president Greg Schneider said in an e-mail Friday that a Pissaro among about 250 artworks found in Gurlitt’s Salzburg property matched one on a Claims Conference looted-art list. Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Bern, which inherited the collection, posted online lists of the Salzburg works and some of the 1,280 others found in Gurlitt’s Munich apartment. The museum says it will investigate the provenance of the works and expects to decide in three months which to turn over as possibly looted art.
Rourke wins in ring
Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke returned to the boxing ring Friday at the age of 62, defeating a fighter less than half his age in an exhibition bout in Moscow. Rourke sent Elliot Seymour, a 29-year-old former California Golden Gloves champion with a 1-9 professional record, to the canvas twice in the second round before the referee stopped the fight. The bout was Rourke’s first fight in 20 years.
Source: Boston Globe
