World IN BRIEF : SWEDEN : Stolen Museum Art Comes Back, Sort of

Copies of eight artworks turned up at a Stockholm museum a week after being stolen, the national news agency TT reported. “It looks like it was a sick joke,” the agency quoted Nils-Hake Hallin of the Stockholm police’s robbery squad. Seven paintings and a sculpture by Cubist masters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, estimated to be worth over $50 million, were stolen a week ago from the Modern Museum in a daring raid. The agency said that a security guard Sunday found a crate containing some paintings and a sculpture outside the museum. The guard alerted the police and museum staff, who after looking at the works declared them to be forgeries.