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A peanut butter of 800 pounds, enough for at least 15,000 sandwiches have been spread on the floor of the Netherlands museum in tribute to Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died last month, AP reported.

Schippers, who died at the age of 83, was a conceptual artist who created the Pindakaasvloer (peanut butter floor), in 1969 first. The work will reopen to the public Friday at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam for a two-month show, AP said.

According to AP, Schippers also voiced Ernie and Kermit the Frog in the Dutch version of “Sesame Street,” and created absurdist and silly works that challenged conventional ideas about the meaning of art.

“Isn’t it fantastic that we are all standing here looking at peanut butter?” Schippers told journalists gathered at the Central Museum in Utrecht in 1997 where Pindakaasvloer was on display for the second time.

Schippers created the work as part of a Floor Covering Series, which also included floors covered with glass shards and salt.

Forty buckets of peanut butter spread took several days and two employees of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen across a 25-square-meter (270-square-foot) hexagon last week. The men used drywall trowels to smear the peanut butter to a thickness of 2 centimeters (0.8 inch), AP reported.

Sudan's RSF forces carried out mass killings, abductions of women and girls, mass gang rapes and forced starvation in a city they besieged and captured last year, as part of an intentional policy amounting to genocide, a U.N. probe said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. 

The Rapid Support Forces, ​which are battling the Sudanese army in a civil war, committed the crimes in al-Fashir ​in north Darfur, which they captured last year after a long siege, the U.N. ⁠Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan found.

Labour MPs are about to start nominating their next leader following Sir Keir Starmer's resignation, BBC reported. 

Andy Burnham is so far the only MP who has announced their intention to stand, and is widely expected to become the prime minister later this month.

It means the former Greater Manchester mayor could enter Downing Street just a few weeks after he returned to Parliament in a by-election in Makerfield.

The US has launched a new round of strikes on Iran after President Donald Trump signalled he would "hit them hard again tonight" following an exchange of attacks on Tuesday, BBC reported. 

Explosions have been reported by Iranian state media in parts of the country's south, including Sirik and Bandar Abbas - port cities on the Strait of Hormuz.