Billion euro burglary at Dresden museum
In what is being called the most serious art heist since World War II, burglars broke into the Grune Gwelbe (Green Vault) in Dresden, Germany and took hundreds of precious objects, which could be worth up to a billion euros. The Green Vault houses 10 rooms with over 3000 artifacts, including the priceless Dresden Green Diamond, which is currently on loan with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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