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NEW YORK: A 1932 Picasso portrait of his mistress sold for $41.5 million on Thursday at Sotheby’s, helping drive a $163 million total for its sale of Impressionist and modern art which nonetheless f

MOSCOW: British spy turned Soviet agent George Blake celebrates his 90th birthday on Sunday, living a comfortable retirement in Moscow and feted as a hero in Russia but still seen as a traitor in B

IT WAS A CLASSIC bank heist in many ways. Armed men using a stolen car and motorbikes held up a van carrying cash in central New Delhi, shot a guard, and made off with the money.

WITH HIS KILLER stare and impeccable track record, Gennaro Gattuso isn’t a man who’s easily overawed.

NEW YORK: The Statue of Liberty was illuminated Friday evening for the first time since it was closed due to damage on Liberty Island caused by Superstorm Sandy.

CANBERRA: Britain’s Prince Charles thanked Australians for being “wonderfully kind” yesterday, as he and wife Camilla wrapped up a six-day tour which has taken them from the Outback to Bondi Bea

PARIS: French President Francois Hollande’s attempt to sign a note congratulating Barack Obama for getting re-elected wound up lost in translation — and all over Twitter.

TOKYO: An American regarded as a father of computer graphics, an Indian literary critic and a Japanese molecular cell biologist have received the Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for globa

CAPE TOWN: A South African man has spent three months locked up in a police station in neighboring Mozambique over an unpaid hotel bill, Pretoria’s foreign ministry said Saturday.

The Saudi-Chinese Youth Dialogue Forum outlined an initiative to set up an organ donation center and a national database to link donors and would-be recipients in its co