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Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece the "Mona Lisa" was attacked with a mug earlier this month, but the world’s most famous painting — protected by thick glass — emerged with its enigmatic smile undimmed. French police say a woman “not in her senses” lobbed the mug at the 500-year-old painting, which hangs in the Louvre gallery in Paris.
An explosion outside a Starbucks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan sent frightened people running into the street early Monday. The explosion blew out the windows of a Starbucks coffeehouse at East 92nd Street and Third Avenue at 3:25 a.m., according to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. A “low-order improvised explosive device” exploded after being left on a wooden bench in front of the coffeehouse, Kelly said