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Vladimir Tretchikoff's painting of the Chinese Girl, thought to be the world's most reproduced print, has sold at auction in London for £982,050.
The sum, which includes a 12% buyer's premium, was around twice what had been predicted by auction house Bonhams.
It was thought the portrait of a young Chinese girl with....
"Obama has been worse than Bush," one Palestinian official in the West Bank told me not so long ago. It raised an eyebrow.
George W Bush's name is generally mud across much of the Arab World.
"Maybe not worse for the Middle East as a whole," the official clarified. "But for Palestinians, Obama has been worse to deal....
We waste a third of our lives sleeping – or that’s how some people see it. When there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day, you yearn to be like the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was said to get by on just four hours sleep a night, or the artist Salvador Dali who wasted as little time as possible slumbering.....
As the last of the dust settles on the departure of Groupon’s founder/CEO Andrew Mason, the daily deals and local commerce service today filed an 8-K form with the SEC to detail how it would be compensating his interim co-CEO replacements Eric Lefkofsky and Ted Leonsis; and also giving a sweetener bonus to one of its key staff, Jeffrey Holden,....
Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and WordPress bloggers. The button is also now available on The Washington Post, TIME, and Boing Boing.
The Send to Kindle suite, which Amazon launched last year with its Send to Kindle button for....
Concerns have been raised that bloggers may face stiff libel fines under rules imposed by a new press watchdog.
Political blogger Iain Dale said he would "certainly" be covered by the regulator and the Huffington Post's Carla Buzasi said the body's remit relating to the internet was unclear.
But the government says the....
Giant squid around the world are "basically identical" despite looking very different, scientists say.
The super-sized cephalopods live deep in the oceans and are little-known by the scientific community.
An international team of researchers investigated rare samples of the elusive animals' DNA to reveal their family....
For the first time in the six years of the iPhone’s life, Apple seems to be going on the defensive, and with good reason. Apple’s global marketshare is slowly shrinking alongside the growth of Android, and Samsung is leading the way as smartphone king, shipping over 50 million Galaxy S IIIs since the phone launched.
And....
Madonna presented talk show host Anderson Cooper with a trophy at the Glaad Media awards in New York.
The annual event celebrates the gay, lesbian and transgender community.
Other winners on the night included director Brett Ratner and TV shows Smash and The Amazing Race.
Madonna gave an impassioned speech....
There’s been a rising dissatisfaction with current language teaching methods in China, but scientists think they may have an answer.
There’s no way round it: learning Chinese is tough. As far as reading goes, what most dismays native speakers of alphabetic languages is that Chinese characters offer so few clues. With virtually....
When you think of Zambia, what comes to mind? Perhaps searching for big cats in one of the country’s vast national parks, hippo spotting along the Zambezi River or rafting beneath the spray of thundering Victoria Falls? All admirable pursuits, no doubt, but for an off-the-beaten-track Zambia experience, the country’s little visited north has....
At a recent wedding in San Francisco, a friend who runs engineering for a successful, pre-IPO company started talking about a member of the latest generation of newly minted millionaires. This acquaintance of ours had started one company and then, before that company had ever made money, sold a big stake to a venture investor, only to start....
Obese cardiac patients are less likely to die than their normal weight counterparts, say researchers.
This is despite them reporting worse health and being less likely to follow lifestyle advice, a study of more than 4,400 patients reported.
One explanation is that doctors treat the disease more aggressively, the....
A Swiss woman has been gang-raped by a group of men in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, police say.
The woman was camping with her husband at a village in Datia district on Friday during a cycling trip when they were attacked by eight to 10 men.
The assailants overpowered the husband before gang-raping his....
Around 160,000 men in the UK have been left with little or no sex life after treatment for prostate cancer, the Macmillan Cancer Support charity says.
It suggested rising cancer rates meant cases could more than double by 2030.
Yet many patients could be helped if more services were available on the NHS, it said.
....
Vladimir Tretchikoff's painting of the Chinese Girl, thought to be the world's most reproduced print, has sold at auction in London for £982,050.
"Obama has been worse than Bush," one Palestinian official in the West Bank told me not so long ago. It raised an eyebrow.
We waste a third of our lives sleeping – or that’s how some people see it. When there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day, you yearn to be like the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was said to get by on just four hours sleep a night, or the artist Salvador Dali who wasted as little time as possible slumbering.....
As the last of the dust settles on the departure of Groupon’s founder/CEO Andrew Mason, the daily deals and local commerce service today filed an 8-K form with the SEC to detail how it would be compensating his interim co-CEO replacements Eric Lefkofsky and Ted Leonsis; and also giving a sweetener bonus to one of its key staff, Jeffrey Holden,....
Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and WordPress bloggers. The button is also now available on The Washington Post, TIME, and Boing Boing.
Concerns have been raised that bloggers may face stiff libel fines under rules imposed by a new press watchdog.
Giant squid around the world are "basically identical" despite looking very different, scientists say.
For the first time in the six years of the iPhone’s life, Apple seems to be going on the defensive, and with good reason. Apple’s global marketshare is slowly shrinking alongside the growth of Android, and Samsung is leading the way as smartphone king, shipping over 50 million Galaxy S IIIs since the phone launched.
Madonna presented talk show host Anderson Cooper with a trophy at the Glaad Media awards in New York.
There’s been a rising dissatisfaction with current language teaching methods in China, but scientists think they may have an answer.
When you think of Zambia, what comes to mind? Perhaps searching for big cats in one of the country’s vast national parks, hippo spotting along the Zambezi River or rafting beneath the spray of thundering Victoria Falls? All admirable pursuits, no doubt, but for an off-the-beaten-track Zambia experience, the country’s little visited north has....
At a recent wedding in San Francisco, a friend who runs engineering for a successful, pre-IPO company started talking about a member of the latest generation of newly minted millionaires. This acquaintance of ours had started one company and then, before that company had ever made money, sold a big stake to a venture investor, only to start....
Obese cardiac patients are less likely to die than their normal weight counterparts, say researchers.
A Swiss woman has been gang-raped by a group of men in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, police say.
Around 160,000 men in the UK have been left with little or no sex life after treatment for prostate cancer, the Macmillan Cancer Support charity says.
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