Pablo Picasso 1905 painting "Garcon a la Pipe" sold for $104 million dollars on May 5, 2004 at New York's Sotheby's shattering the record for an auctioned painting. The previous record of $82.5 million dollars was set in 1990 for Van Gogh "Portrait of Doctor Gachet". (UPI/Ezio Petersen)
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Passions Of The Billionaires
At an age when most children learn division, Ernesto Bertarelli studied the pharmaceutical business. His father, head of the drug-making company Serono, took his son to company meetings and industry conferences starting when he was just seven years old.
Lebanese vow never again to be 'burned' by US
As smoke continues to billow from an 11-storey building that was blasted by an Israeli airstrike into a heap of rubble burying four inhabitants, a woman looks over and yells: "Look what [George W.] Bush has done to my home."
Iran shows off seldom-seen hoard of Western art
Iran has unveiled its rarely-seen collection of modern art, featuring works by Western artists including Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol that have spent much of the past 25 years locked away.
Ex-muse puts up 20 Picasso drawings for auction
Twenty drawings given by Pablo Picasso in the 1950s to his young lover and muse, poetess Genevieve LaPorte, will go on auction in Paris on Monday, and are expected to fetch up to €2 million ($2.4 million).
Abu Ghraib prison bars: the new canvas of Iraqi art
The subjects in each of Nasir Thamers works are trapped behind bars, real or painted. Since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the trauma of the occupation has seeped even into Iraqs artistic production.
Israeli PC mouse helps blind 'see'
BLIND ISRAELI ARIEL GAMLIEL USES A SPECIAL COMPUTER MOUSE TO STUDY A MAP. An Israeli hi-tech company has produced a computer mouse that acts as the eyes of the blind and partially-sighted by helping them view computer graphics through touch.
People's stories
Kuwaiti police have arrested an Egyptian woman who mowed down six children in a road accident in a village outside Cairo last month, a newspaper reported on January 27.
Regional Briefs
Saudi Arabia has stopped issuing visas to Ugandan Muslims hoping to make the pilgrimage to Mecca because of fear that they will spread the often deadly Ebola virus, the Ugandan Health Ministry confirmed January 19.
Notes from Turkey
TURKEY ROUNDS UP ILLEGAL immigrantsTurkish security forces rounded up 619 would-be illegal immigrants in a massive operation in the northwestern provinces of Canakkale and Balikesir on June 8, Anatolia news agency reported.
