Law, crime and regulation

A Paris court has delayed the sale of the earliest-known calculator.

The largest group of cartographic items to come onto the market in years will be granted an export licence.

A UK gallery or institution will need to raise £280,000 plus VAT to acquire a work by Henri-Joseph François, Baron De Triqueti, before it leaves the country.

Three fossilised dinosaur skeletons and a collection of 11 Chinese artworks were among the assets recovered by the National Crime Agency (NCA).

Two thieves broke into an antiques centre in South Yorkshire stealing items and causing thousands of pounds of damage.

A manhunt continues for the four suspects who broke into the Louvre in Paris and stole eight jewels valued at in excess of €88m (£76m).

A pair of late 17th century delftware shoes that were stolen six year ago have been reunited with their owner thanks to the actions of a Wiltshire auctioneer.

An audacious robbery of valuable jewellery from the Louvre at the weekend has forced the museum to remain closed for investigation.

The National Trust has issued an alert following the theft of an 18th century Chinese plate from a property in north Wales.

Auction house seeks information following the theft of a silver sculpture

Detectives are appealing for information and witnesses after a burglary at a museum in Exeter.

Hampshire police are appealing for information on an antique sundial stolen from The Somerley Estate in the New Forest.

A pocket chronometer known to be on board HMS Beagle when Charles Darwin sailed on the ship’s second voyage from 1831-36 is subject to a temporary export bar in the hope of keeping it in the UK.