Landslide in Brazil capital

spills 4 cars into building site

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A landslide at a construction site in Brazil’s capital Tuesday tumbled four cars parked on an adjoining road into the excavation for a planned building.

The accident occurred just a few miles from Brasilia’s esplanade of government buildings.

A broken water pipe at the job site prompted the landslide, according to local media reports. The city also had received heavy rain in the previous hours.

Authorities said no people were near the point where the soil gave way, and the collapse caused only material damage to the vehicles.

Painting found inside gallery

walls might be stolen Klimt

ROME (AP) — A Gustav Klimt painting, stolen almost 23 years ago, might have been hidden all this time inside an Italian gallery’s walls.

A gardener at the Ricci Oddi modern art gallery in the northern city of Piacenza told Italian state TV on Tuesday he was clearing ivy from the gallery’s walls when he noticed a metal panel. He opened it and found a bag inside a space within the walls.

When the bag was opened it contained a painting that might be Klimt’s “Portrait of a Lady,” which disappeared from the gallery during renovations in February 1997.

Piacenza police chief Pietro Ostuni said the painting is being kept in a safe place that he wouldn’t reveal while experts check to see if it’s the real one or a copy.

The gallery said it isn’t saying anything publicly until the painting’s authenticity can be checked out. But local online daily Piacenza Sera quoted gallery officials as saying on the back of the canvas were stamps that were placed there when the painting was on loan, indicating it might indeed be the missing portrait.

The painting is a later work by the Austrian master of the “art nouveau.” Its disappearance has been one of the art world’s biggest mysteries.