Quirky World: No place like home: $1m to return ruby slippers

USA: An anonymous donor has offered a $1m (€907,000) reward for credible information leading to the recovery of a pair of Judy Garland’s sequinned, ruby red slippers stolen from a museum in Minnesota.

The late actress wore the slippers in The Wizard Of Oz. Three other pairs still exist, including one on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

John Kelsch, executive director of the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, said the donor is from Arizona and is a huge fan of Garland and the 1939 movie. The reward offer requires the exact location of the slippers, which were stolen in August 2005, and the perpetrator’s name.