French artist Rachid Khimoune has installed 1,000 sculptures shaped like sea turtles on Omaha Beach to mark the 67th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
The turtles’ “shells” are moulded from American, Russian and German combat helmets, sprouting flippers and long-necked heads.
The sculptures were arranged yesterday along the sandy expanses of Omaha Beach – where the Allies won a pivotal victory against the Nazis.
Some 215,000 Allied soldiers, and roughly as many Germans, were killed or wounded during D-Day and the ensuing nearly three months it took to secure the capture of Normandy.
A French artist of Berber origin, Mr Khimoune is a sculptor, painter and video artist whose work often features everyday objects. (AP)
‘Obedient wives’
A Malaysian Muslim group has launched the Obedient Wives Club to teach women to be submissive and keep their spouses happy in the bedroom as a cure to social ills.
The club’s vice president, Rohayah Mohamad, said wives must learn to be good lovers so they can “obey, serve and entertain” their husbands to prevent them from straying or misbehaving.
The club was founded by the Global Ikhwan group, which launched a Polygamy Club two years ago.
Global Ikhwan comprises former members of the banned Al-Arqam Islamic sect. The government has said it is keeping an eye on the group amid concerns it could be an effort to revive the sect. (AP)
Bernstein dies
Harry Bernstein, whose acclaimed memoir The Invisible Wall was published when he was 96, has died.
Bruce Frankel, a friend and author, says Bernstein died on Friday at his daughter’s Brooklyn home in New York. He was 101.
In The Invisible Wall, Mr Bernstein wrote about his bleak childhood in an English mill town, with Christians and Jews living together uneasily. He also wrote about his coming of age in New York during the Great Depression.
Mr Bernstein had worked as an MGM movie script reader and edited a construction trade magazine. (AP)
Costly slip
A supermarket shopper in England has secured a £10,500 payout after slipping on a grape in a branch of Asda.
The company apologised for failing to meet its own “high standards” following the ruling at Peterborough County Court.
The court ordered that Asda pay Thomas Wardle £10,500 damages – and pay £18,000 in legal costs – following the slip at the Rivergate store in Peterborough in January 2008. (PA)
Messy thieves
A pair of petrol thieves handed UK police a vital clue after their own car ran out of fuel.
The men, suspected of stealing almost £1,000 worth of petrol in a spate of station drive-offs, were caught on CCTV pushing a Volkswagen Golf into a forecourt. After filling up their tank, the pair once again drove off without paying.
Greater Manchester Police released the image, which shows a black Golf with stolen registration plates about to drive on to a forecourt in Ardwick Green, in an attempt to bring their crime spree to a halt. (PA)
Glove love
Zoo keepers in the UK are fooling an abandoned penguin chick into thinking a black industrial glove is its parent.
Keepers at Living Coasts in Torquay, Devon, are standing in as the tiny chick’s parents after it was abandoned before it had even hatched.
In order to hand rear the chick, keepers are wearing a home-made penguin glove puppet during its feeds to stop it from becoming used to humans. (PA)
JR auction
Larry Hagman, who played the cold, conniving oil baron JR Ewing in the beloved 1980s series Dallas, auctioned off many of his personal valuables.
Caroline Galloway of Julien’s Auctions said a silver saddle was the priciest item sold in Beverly Hills, fetching $80,000.
Other big items included a portrait of Mr Hagman’s co-star Jim Davis that went for more than $38,000, a replica bottle from Mr Hagman’s earlier series I Dream of Jeannie that brought in more than $10,000, and a pair of pistols that fetched more than $4,000.
The 79-year-old Mr Hagman put in an appearance, describing items to the crowd before sitting in the audience during bidding.
The collection brought in more than $500,000. (AP)