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Watch: Visitors sit on and break artwork chair in Italian museum

Two visitors were filmed sitting on, and breaking, a piece of artwork at Palazzo Maffei museum in Verona, Italy.

CCTV footage of Palazzo Maffei captures the moment the ornate chair collapses, and the man and woman quickly leave.

The "Van Gogh" chair by Nicola Bolla (Saluzzo 1963) is a piece of art made out of thousands of Swarovski crystals.

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Watch: At the scene of Austria's worst shooting in modern history

The BBC's Bethany Bell visited the scene in Graz, after ten people were killed in a school shooting.

A person stands facing a window in a school clasroom

Gunshots heard and students evacuate in videos filmed at Austrian school

Video verified by the BBC shows students being evacuated from the school in the city of Graz.

Prince William delivering a speech at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco on Sunday

Prince William speaks French in address on ocean protection

Prince of Wales outlines risks to world's oceans at Monaco conference.

BBC's Phil Mackie reports from where a site near Praia da Luz in Portugal where a search for Madeleine McCann resumes

Watch: Searching derelict and desolate area in Madeleine McCann case

Police are searching an area where prime suspect, Christian Brückner, stayed at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.

The BBC's Daniel Sandford stands in front of a road blocked by a police vehicle

BBC at the scene of new Madeleine McCann search

Police have begun fresh investigations following the disappearance of the British three-year-old in Portugal in 2007.

Planes on fire on runway with smoke pluming around them

Video appears to show Ukraine drone attack in Russia

Footage shows attack drones homing in on their targets as they sit on the tarmac.

A derailed passenger carriage is seen surrounded by debris on the collapsed bridge

Footage shows aftermath of Russia bridge collapse

Fire crews were called to the scene after a road bridge came down in Bryansk.

Colour film photographs of a young woman with long braided brown hair and a red top, against a blue backdrop

'You can feel when you're making something special'

Gotta Tell You was a radio-ready hit that climbed international charts and introduced a confident new voice to the noughties music scene.

a cascade of ice and rubble crashes down the alps

Alpine glacier collapses engulfing Swiss village

Ice and rubble crashed down a mountain and onto the village Blatten in the Swiss Alps.

A composite image of the statue of Joseph Stalin carved in white stone in Moscow and the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg

Rosenberg: What a new Stalin statue says about Russia's attempt to reshape history

A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow.

A large cloud generated by rock and mud rises over the green slope of a valley

Glacier collapse swallows part of Swiss village

One person has been reported missing and many homes have been flattened.

Yogita Limaye running from a drone attack. She is wearing a helmet and press vest.

Watch: BBC team flees drone attack in Ukraine

Yogita Limaye was reporting from the town of Rodynske when a blast was heard nearby.

Split image showing ship near house, with a man in front, and then the ship in the water

Norway ship refloated after near miss with house

House owner Johan Helberg says he "wouldn't have traded this experience for anything" after the ship became stuck in his garden.

Image shows moment Macron is shoved in the face by his wife

Watch: Push in the face by wife was joke not domestic dispute, says Macron

Footage shows the moment Emmanuel Macron is shoved in the face by his wife Brigitte as they touch down in Hanoi, Vietnam.

A man getting his hair cut while sat out on the street

Watch: Suspected sabotage causes Cannes power cut 'meltdown'

The prestigious film festival was disrupted, about 160,000 homes were without power and businesses were left without power.

Man standing next to his house with large cargo ship washed up in his front garden

Watch: 'I didn't hear anything' - man who woke to find cargo ship in garden

The 135m-ship (443ft) missed Johan Helberg's house in Norway by metres, but he didn't notice a thing.

Composite image of Jess Parker and a tank

Watch: German troops to be permanently sent to Lithuania's eastern border

The German military has not permanently stationed troops on foreign soil since World War Two.

Tunnel leading to secret military headquarters in Norwegian mountain

Watch: Deep inside a Norwegian mountain, Nato allies train for Arctic war

Europe editor Katya Adler gains access to a secret HQ and Norwegian warships leading military exercises.

Black vehicle immersed in floodwater

Watch: Fatal storms flood the south of France

At least three people have died in the flooding which swept across southern France.

Rylan and his co-host of the Interstellar Song Contest in Doctor Who stand on stage as people wave flags in the air

'Welcome to the 803rd Interstellar Song Contest!'