TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The Shah of Iran’s last refuge before fleeing his country in 1979 was a palatial estate nestled against the Alborz Mountains – a place no Iranian ever dreamed of visiting. Today, it costs them around $1.
PERU, Ind. (AP) – A Peru couple has purchased the birthplace of famous Broadway composer Cole Porter and will continue to run it as an inn after the property went up for sale last year.
BRUSSELS (AP) – It’s probably not a long-lost painting by Michelangelo. It almost certainly wasn’t stolen by a sophisticated gang of international art thieves. But the disappearance of a painting that a priest claimed resembled a work by the Renaissance master has Belgian investigators scratching their heads.