Five versions of a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece are being reunited for the first time in a "virtual exhibition". Van Gogh painted his Sunflowers series in the south of France in 1888 and 1889. Five versions of the work reside in five different museums on three continents. Tomorrow NZT, they all will be streamed to a global audience in a Facebook Live broadcast. The 1 hour and 35 minute broadcast begins in London's National Gallery at 16.50GMT (4.50am). It then continues at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Tokyo's Seiji Togo Memorial Museum of Art. A curator from each museum will describe, in 15-minute segments, what makes their version unique.
The world's largest turtle nesting spot for endangered green sea turtles will be made-over to stop baby turtles drowning and adults dying from heat exhaustion. During nesting season around 60,000 female green turtles swim from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Torres Strait and the West Pacific to Raine Island to lay their eggs Six olympic-sized pools of sand will be moved across the island to raise the nesting area, while fences will be added around dangerous cliffs.
A motorcycle student driver working on the upcoming Ryan Reynolds superhero movie Deadpool 2 died in a crash during filming near the waterfront in downtown Vancouver, Canada, police said. A crumpled motorcycle was seen lying on its side outside the Shaw Tower office building, where a window was smashed. The name of the stunt woman was not immediately released.
Police in Texas, US, acting on a tip found 16 immigrants locked inside a truck parked at a service station about 30km from the border with Mexico, less than a month after 10 people died in the back of a hot truck in San Antonio. Edinburg Assistant Police Chief Oscar Trevino says the immigrants may have been locked inside the 18-wheeler in Edinburg for at least eight hours before being freed by officers. Trevino said none of the people inside required medical attention. He said they were hungry and thirsty and were given food and water at the scene. A man and woman who Trevino said are Cuban nationals were in charge of the rig and have been detained.
A Melbourne man who threw a beer can at police and sideswiped a cop car has been caught when he got peckish during the pursuit and stopped for takeaway food. Police say they saw the man, aged 20, driving erratically on the Princess Highway in Mulgrave and when they began to pursue him, he threw a beer can at them and sideswiped a police car. A few minutes later, police caught the man trying to use the drive-through of a Springvale takeaway restaurant and they expect to charge him with a host of traffic offences, discharging a weapon and drug possession.
