One woman's trash was headed for the curb—until she decided to give it one last chance.

In the palliative care ward of a South Australian hospital, Albert "Doc" Todd is piecing broken tiles together to make lasting, colourful mosaics. "It relaxes me. I get a lot of pleasure from it," he ...

Art dealer Helen Fioratti and her husband, Nereo, purchased the mosaic from an aristocratic Italian family in the 1960s and used it as a coffee table in their Manhattan apartment for some 45 years.

Two millennia after it served as a floor on a Roman emperor's ship and decades after it disappeared mysteriously, this mosaic returns to Italy Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism ...