The famed black-and-white portrait known as The Roaring Lion should be rehung in the Château Laurier by the end of next month

Italy handed back to Canada on Thursday a famous photographic portrait of Winston Churchill that was stolen from an Ottawa hotel more than two years ago and sold at auction to an unsuspecting Italian lawyer.

The theft of an iconic Churchill portrait by Yousuf Karsh went unnoticed for months. But two years later, the police have tracked down the photograph.

Dignitaries have marked the recovery of a photo portrait of Winston Churchill known as The Roaring Lion, which was stolen in Canada and recovered in

Isabelle Mondou is Canada’s Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage. Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh captured the image in 1941. :: File Britain's World War Two leader had just given a speech to the Canadian parliament. Mondou says Karsh tried ...

Canadian police say a renowned portrait of Winston Churchill that was reported stolen from an Ottawa hotel has been tracked down in Italy.

“Roaring Lion,” the famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill brazenly snatched from the walls of Ottawa’s Fairmont Château Laurier hotel and replaced with a fake, has been found in Italy, Ottawa police say. The force said Wednesday that investigators would travel to Rome later this month to retrieve the original print and return it to the hotel.

A special ceremony at the Canadian Embassy in Rome has marked the successful recovery of a stolen photo portrait of Winston Churchill, known as “The Roaring Lion,” after a two-year international searc