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Springing from the fertile imagination of Venetian writer Alberto Toso Fei, this game-as-guide centers on a hunt for the Ruyi of the title, a mythical magical scepter stolen from Kublai Khan by Marco Polo. In the story, the explorer takes the scepter back to Venice - where Toso Fei's first Ruyi game is set - before it is donated to the Vatican. During the sack of Rome in 1527, the Pope commissions Florentine goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini to transform the Ruyi's appearance to keep it out of enemy hands...
...valley running up from Tskhinvali to the Russian border, have been looted and burnt. Looters from as far away as Chechnya and Abkhazia were seen hauling away TVs, refrigerators and other household appliances on the back of tractors and in the overloaded trunks of new cars - many of them stolen from the villages, according to local accounts...
...Australian delegation's Wesley Enoch, an award-winning theater director (Stolen, Riverland), preservation must always go hand in hand with progress. The delegation he selected for the festival - from Freshwater, a women's a capella group who seek to reclaim languages through song, to Doonooch, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation group using traditional dance - reflect his theme of "Welcoming the New Day." "In Indigenous Australia there's a whole lot of contemporary manifestations of culture that we want to look at," Enoch says. "It's not just about cultural maintenance but about cultural evolution...
Robizon Etgadashvili, 57, left his village of Kareleti, five miles from Gori, three days ago after looters whom he didn't recognize began ransacking the village and carting away possessions in stolen cars. They took TVs, rugs, even windows and doors. "I said to four men who came into my house, 'Take what you want,' and they said, 'We don't have to ask you, it is ours,' " said the farmer, who was walking the road to Tbilisi 80 km (50 miles) away. "When the Russian army goes, the Ossetians come and take everything." A neighbor and grandfather...
...Less than a year ago two computer discs containing the personal details of all families in the U.K. with a child under 16 went missing. Earlier this month, the U.K. Ministry of Defense told Parliament that 659 of its official laptops had been stolen over the course of the past four years, three of which contained information classified as "secret" and another 19 deemed "restricted...