The egg, which is set with 60 white diamonds and 15 blue sapphires, has not yet been recovered.
Category: World
Search for long-missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume
The Boeing 777 with 239 people on board vanished in 2014 in one of the greatest aviation mysteries.
As lead changes in knife-edge Honduran election, will Trump fail to get his way?
Former vice-president Salvador Nasralla has a small lead over his rival, the conservative former mayor of Tegucigalpa, Nasry Asfura.
Crisis looms in Israel over ultra-Orthodox conscription bill
Lawmakers are considering a draft bill to end the exemption granted to ultra-Orthodox men enrolled in full-time religious study.
Trump says he doesn’t want Somalis in US as ICE plans Minnesota operation
The president says the US will “go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country”.
What is Honduras ex-president accused of and why has Trump pardoned him?
Juan Orlando Hernández, once called the key figure in a drug trafficking scheme that flooded America with cocaine, walked free after the pardon.
Was it coup or was it a ‘sham’? Behind Guinea-Bissau’s military takeover
The military has taken over but some say the overthrow of the president was not what it seemed.
Cyclone catastrophe in Sri Lanka awakens volunteer spirit
Fishing boats deliver relief supplies to flooded suburbs as community kitchens churn out food aid.
Pavarotti statue frozen knee-deep in ice rink strikes wrong note in Italy
The opera legend’s widow said the town had made an “absurd decision” after it also encouraged skaters to high five the statue.
Rare Fabergé egg fetches record £22.9m at London auction
The Imperial Winter Egg with 4,500 diamonds was commissioned by Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II in 1913.