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Gerhard Richter painting sells for record £21m

YoopyaOct 13, 20120

An oil painting by the German artist Gerhard Richter has sold for £21m ($34m) – an auction record for a work by a living artist.

Whitney Houston: stars pay tribute at Grammy show

YoopyaOct 13, 20120

A host of celebrities have paid tribute to Whitney Houston as part of a special Grammy television show in Los Angeles. Britney Spears, Halle Berry

Global army of online freelancers remakes outsourcing industry

YoopyaOct 13, 20120

(Reuters) – Not far from the world of regimented cubicles and headset-toting call center operators, a quiet revolution is stirring in its slippers. University librarian

UN adopts resolution on northern Mali

kiemtarOct 13, 2012October 13, 20120

The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution paving the way for military intervention in Mali to retake the north from Islamist extremists. The resolution requests

Francophonie summit brings Harper to a city in lockdown

kiemtarOct 13, 20120

Prime Minister Stephen Harper flew to Kinshasa on Friday night, into a city in lockdown, where protests were banned, soldiers were stationed on the main

Nobel winner Mo urges Liu Xiaobo’s freedom

kiemtarOct 13, 20120

China’s newly-named Nobel laureate for literature, Mr Mo Yan, expressed hope yesterday that an imprisoned Chinese winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be freed,

European Union wins Nobel Peace Prize

kiemtarOct 13, 20120

The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for promoting peace, democracy and human rights over six decades in an award seen as a

Mystery Florida eyeball is probably from ’10ft swordfish’, experts say

kiemtarOct 13, 20120

Suggestions of eyeball’s origin included a giant squid, a bigeye thresher shark and an unusually large sailfish. A giant eyeball found washed up on a Florida beach

Fact-checking the vice presidential debate

kiemtarOct 12, 20120

In the one-and-only vice presidential debate of the general election campaign, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican candidate Rep. Paul Ryan went head-to-head over issues

Book Talk: Booker nominee Thayil offers bleak Bombay portrait

brunoOct 11, 2012October 11, 20120

(Reuters) – Jeet Thayil, one of the nominees for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for the year’s best novel in English, paints a stark portrait