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A German expert will attend talks next month to discuss Cairo's demand for the return of a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt's antiquities chief said Wednesday. The bust of the Egyptian beauty is the centerpiece of Berlin's "Neues Museum," which reopened last month 70 years after it was closed following heavy bomb damage during World War II.

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