A painting by the French painter Claude Monet Wednesday at an auction at Christie's in New York, a record $ 81.4 million completed (over 76 million), while the estimated revenue was $ 45 million.
At Sotheby's in Geneva has a pink diamond Wednesday raised an amount of 20.8 million dollars (19.5 million euros). To the surprise of the auction was not the 'Blue Sky Diamond' sold for the highest amount, but the pink stone of 17.07 carats.
Melvin Laird, former Minister of Defense of the United States on Wednesday in Fort Myers deceased in the state of Florida.
The Colombian army on Wednesday killed two rebels from FARC. In the fight with the guerrillas in the northern Bolivar province was also captured a man.
When a major fire in a famous luxurious shopping area in the Peruvian capital Lima Wednesday five deaths. The fire in mall Larcomar on the rocks on the coast caused thick clouds of smoke that hung among others across the street surrounding the Marriott Hotel.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has come under fire because he Donald Trump said to be willing to change the free trade agreement NAFTA. Both the opposition party members have Trudeaus 'slack attitude' fiercely criticized.
Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence have already spoken to 29 leaders in the world, including Saudi King Salman, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The employees reported Trump to January 20, the new US president.
No new government is fully prepared for the first regeringsdag all its tasks. This said US Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday after lunch with his successor Mike Pence.
Criminals have in Germany seized a large batch of Lego. They stole nineteen pallets with boxes of toys from a truck that was in a parking lot on the A44 in North Rhine-Westphalia. According to police, the party Lego 95,000 euros worth.
Dozens of protesters on Wednesday disrupted a session of the Brazilian parliament. They rushed in and shouted slogans against corruption and demanded military intervention in the country. She also sang the national anthem, Brazilian media reported.
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In the American desert valley Death Valley is the Dutch air force already well practiced with the F-35. Some pictures of a regular training mission in the gebeid fly around the US air base Edwards AFB give an impressive picture of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II in action.
In railway stations Brussels-Midi, Antwerp and Liege will soon put down security gates. International transit passengers and their luggage that can be checked from the beginning of 2017.
Bulgaria needs to find a new government. The parliament in Sofia Wednesday did accept the resignation of the center-right government of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. Who had his political fate to the presidential elections of last Sunday.
Bombing the east of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday claimed at least 21 lives. Among the victims were five children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Also, people in the city reported that the heavy airstrikes that began Tuesday proceed continuously after a period of relative calm.
Bob Dylan does not personally receive his Nobel Prize for Literature. That the 75-year-old lyricist and singer of the Swedish Academy, who will pay the price, stated in a letter.
The next climate summit in Germany in November 2017. This Wednesday reported on this year's conference in the Moroccan Marrakech. Germany is, moreover, not the chairman of the conference, because that is Fiji.
A photo of a Chinese golden pheasant with a golden crest is massively shared on social media by people who think the bird resembles Donald Trump.
Donald Trump election victory for the Mexican government reason to draw up an action plan with eleven points for compatriots in the US Mexico activates include a phone number that Mexicans in the United States, call free.
The 'birthplace' of democracy, Greece, leaving President Barack Obama Wednesday made the case for strengthening it. It's not a perfect system, Obama said during his farewell visit to Athens, but it is still 'the best form we know.'
The process must be done against the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. The Russian Supreme Court overturned his conviction Wednesday and referred the case back to a lower court. The Kremlin critic himself is not happy with the verdict. ' They should annul the whole thing, '' he said.
Twitter has launched a great purge of prominent accounts that are associated with the highly conservative and right-wing movement alt-right. That reports The Daily Caller.
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have fled to neighboring Bangladesh to stay out of the grip of the Burmese army. In recent days there has been heavy fighting between the army and Rohingya Muslims.
A 25-year-old British tourist has been arrested in Dubai after she reported a gang rape. According to the newspaper The Independent, the woman is accused of extramarital sex and the two alleged perpetrators, also British, the country abandoned long and wide.
Turkey refuses to engage with PvdA Kati Piri, Turkey rapporteur of the European Parliament on the state of arrested Kurdish parliamentarians. A planned trip to Turkey is therefore canceled, announces its spokesman.
is a seal sanctuary swept away by a huge landslide in the coastal town of Kaikoura in New Zealand hit by an earthquake. Possible therefore killed seals.
Four months after the failed coup attempt, the Turkish government put 3,200 police officers back to work. It involves agents who were suspended because of alleged links with the cleric Fethullah Gulen. Which is seen by Ankara as the mastermind of the failed attempt at a coup.
The German domestic intelligence is deeply concerned about Russian interference in the Bundestag elections to be held next year. Chef Hans-Georg Maassen said Tuesday in an interview with Reuters a 'hybrid threat.'
In two houses in the Austrian capital Vienna has discovered the police together ninety elephant tusks. It involves one of the greatest finds of ivory in the EU.
Russia has withdrawn from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The Russian government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs instructed the UN notifying informed.
The elected US president Donald Trump has contradicted on Twitter that turmoil and confusion arose in his team. Trump said that the composition of his government and advisory team claimed 'runs a very organized process.'
