Britain: A bidder paid $4.8 million for a Roman glass bowl, believed to have been used as an oil lamp 1,800 years ago. The price was believed to be one of the highest ever for a glass artifact sold at auction. The Constable-Maxwell cage cup dates from the third-century A.D. and was sold Wednesday at Bonhams auction house in London to an unidentified bidder. “It’s exceptionally fragile and cut from a single block of glass,” the head of antiquities at Bonhams said. “It’s something that would have been highly important in its day.”
Twenty-five people drowned when a homemade boat capsized in a rain-swollen Indian river on Thursday, and another 10 died in their homes, raising the death toll from South Asian flooding to 374. The toll in South Asia – Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and India – included 13 deaths newly reported in Bangladesh. The annual South Asia flooding, which is fed by melting snow and torrential rains, has left millions in dire need as waters have washed away homes, roads, crops and telephone lines. Last year, 1,500 people died in the flooding.
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