Thieves Swipe Special Item Worth Millions in Wild Museum Heist

Albert Otti/picture alliance via Getty Images Thieves have stolen a 200-carat platinum-and-diamond necklace worth several million dollars during a brazen heist at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts. The Van Cleef and Arpels necklace, designed for the former royal family of Egypt and worn by Queen Nazli in 1939 at her daughter’s wedding, was set with 673 precious stones. It was one of 500 pieces included in an exhibit devoted to the French jewelry designers that had been on display since June. On…