It was sold for around 50 euros in 1958 – and now it’s worth an estimated 85 million. Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’, an oil on panel canvas of Jesus Christ, has been hailed by auction house Christie’s as ‘the greatest artistic rediscovery of the 21st century’. Now on display at Christie’s in London before
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsOver bitter protests from the pharmaceutical industry, California this month enacted a law that requires drug makers to explain and justify prices for some medicines. Predictably, those who backed the effort are hailing the move as a significant victory, because they hope this will become the first step toward reining in drug prices. To be
Roy Moore was twice ousted from the Alabama Supreme Court for flouting the U.S. Constitution. Now he’s on a path to become the state’s next U.S. senator. Scott Wagner accosted a videographer recording him as he campaigned for Pennsylvania governor. He’s since won the endorsement of Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s political alter ego, and
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USARisks are growing while environmental protections are disappearing. Wildfire Pixabay The deadly wildfires ripping through Northern California are just the latest in a season of record-defying natural disasters in the United States. As the death toll passes 40, reports of Californians hiding in pools as their houses burn and scenes of devastated homes and vineyards
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The World We Share, USASAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — If it weren’t for the tangled clump of power lines on a nearby corner and the partially unhinged stop sign down the street, Tuesday might have seemed like the first day of a normal school year at Julio Selles Sola School in San Juan’s Rio Piedras neighborhood. Hundreds of students
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s longtime business lawyer Michael Cohen may be best known for his aggressive campaign television defenses of the real estate mogul, his role in an abortive effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and allegations that he attended a meeting last summer with Russians in Europe. But while serving as a top executive
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USAA North Korean electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack could possibly eliminate 90 percent of U.S. population, according to a new report. Peter Vincent Pry, a nuclear strategist formerly with the CIA, told Forbes Monday an EMP attack would be detrimental to the U.S. by targeting electrical grids. “The U.S. can sustain a population of 320 million
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International, USABy Melanie Lidman One hundred years ago, the sound of hoofbeats and war cries rolled across northern Israel, as soldiers from Australia and New Zealand, mounted on horseback, fought against German soldiers at one of history’s last great cavalry battles. Descendants of the Australian soldiers who fought in Palestine during WWI returned to the site
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International, Middle EastAmericans are growing ill and bacteria outbreaks are spiking in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico as people use dirty water — sometimes contaminated by urine and hazardous waste — for drinking and bathing. One month after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, about 25 percent of its 3.4 million citizens lack clean water and 80 percent still live
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USAPowerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged a “moderate, open” Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, breaking with ultra-conservative clerics in favour of an image catering to foreign investors and Saudi youth. The Saudi strongman, 32, did not mince words in declaring a new reality for the kingdom, hours after announcing the launch of an independent $500
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Middle EastFrom the Office of Christopher Porrino, NJ Attorney General TRENTON – Likening the conduct of Mahwah township officials to 1950s-era “white flight” suburbanites who sought to keep African-Americans from moving into their neighborhoods, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced today that the State has filed a Superior Court complaint against the Mahwah Township Council and
Lior Krinsky When I was 11, I used to sit in Father Marek’s religion class and get called out for asking too many questions. “Why can’t women be priests?” “Why can’t priests get married?” “Why do we pray to saints?” My questions weren’t encouraged, but my silence certainly was. Many years later, one of the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Raoul Wootliff Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Monday harshly criticized a controversial bill that would grant serving prime ministers immunity from criminal prosecution as “absurd,” “wrong and inappropriate.” At a Justice Ministry conference held at Tel Aviv University, Mandelblit raised concerns that such a law could significantly obstruct police investigations into a prime minister
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Middle EastAustria’s newly elected leader Sebastian Kurz on Tuesday invited the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) to begin coalition talks, in a fresh boost for European populists. The announcement by the incoming conservative chancellor paves the way for the FPOe’s return to power nearly two decades after it last entered government in 2000. The last time the
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