Thieves steal up to US$100 million in cash, gold and jewellery from German bank

Thieves stole tens of millions of euros worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank vault that they drilled into on Monday during the holiday lull, police said. Some 2,700 bank customers were affected by the theft in Gelsenkirchen, police and the Sparkasse bank said. Thomas Nowaczyk, a police spokesman, said investigators believe the theft was worth between €10 million and €90 million (US$11.7 to US$105.7 million). German news agency dpa reported that the theft could be one...