Gunmen steal paintings

Stockholm - Gunmen snatched Rembrandt and Renoir paintings worth about $30 million from Stockholm's National Museum yesterday…

Stockholm - Gunmen snatched Rembrandt and Renoir paintings worth about $30 million from Stockholm's National Museum yesterday, police said.

The stolen pictures are a self-portrait by Rembrandt and two works by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir - A Young Parisian Woman and Conversation.

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