A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt fetched $236.4-million in New York on Tuesday, becoming the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.
Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music".
Gangs in Haiti are profiting from a lucrative trade in baby eels caught in the crime-ridden country's rivers and estuaries and sold abroad for thousands of dollars.