1, Pablo Picasso The Women of Algiers (Version 0)$179.4 million at Christie's in New York on Monday.
Anne-Marie Saintou walks with a megaphone along the dusty lanes of a Haitian fishing village, imploring people not to make the same mistake she did. "Ladies, say 'NO!'" she shouts. "We will not give away our children anymore."
Starring in music videos at the age of 100, Eileen Kramer is probably the oldest working dancer and choreographer in Australia, if not the world - and the centenarian revels in her age.
Japanese ruling party officials signed off on Monday on bills to implement a drastic change in security policy that would expand the role of the nation's military in the US-Japan alliance and allow it to fight abroad for the first time since World War II.
An American museum has returned a 10th-century sandstone statue of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman to Cambodia, decades after it was looted from a jungle temple in the civil war.
Janaki Karmacharya sits on a plastic chair under the tarpaulin that now serves as her office and despairs at the wreckage of her once magnificent library in the heart of Kathmandu.
Powerful religious leaders in Afghanistan are growing uneasy about the challenge to their authority posed by rare civil rights protests in Kabul and widespread anger over the lynching of a young woman wrongly accused of burning a Quran.
In pockets of the rugged mountains near the Lebanese border, the distinctive yellow flag of Hezbollah now flies where al-Qaida militants once held sway.
Leaders of the Gulf nations unnerved by Washington's nuclear talks with Iran and Teheran's meddling across the Middle East want US President Barack Obama to promise more than words and weapons at this week's summit at Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Maryland woods.
South Africa's main opposition group chose its first black leader at a party congress on Sunday, seeking to expand its appeal in a country whose rule has been dominated by one party since the first all-race elections in 1994.
British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled his new Cabinet on Monday after an unexpected election victory that gave his Conservative party a narrow majority in Parliament for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Francois Hollande arrived in Havana on Sunday, the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century, cementing France's lead in the EU rapprochement with the island.
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