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Qatar pays record $250m for Cezanne

OIL-RICH Qatar has bought Paul Cezanne's painting The Card Players for more than $250 million, by far the highest price yet paid for a work of art.

5 February, 2012 - 2:00am

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Jobs growth rewrites Obama's script

WASHINGTON: The burst of job growth last month gives the US President, Barack Obama, a fresh but tricky opportunity to revise the grim economic...

5 February, 2012 - 2:00am

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Khamenei vows to fight 'cancerous tumour' Israel

LONDON: Iran's supreme leader has pledged to confront and defeat the ''cancerous tumour'' of Israel as international concern grows of a...

5 February, 2012 - 2:00am

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Look who's listening in to FBI

LONDON: They trade jokes, chuckle and talk shop about a hacker plot called ''Project Mayhem''.

5 February, 2012 - 2:00am

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200 killed by Syrian shelling

BEIRUT: In a barrage of shelling, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds early yesterday in an offensive that appears to be the...

5 February, 2012 - 2:00am

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A week for radiators, not gladiators

ROME: Thick snowflakes have been falling on Rome, forcing the closure of the Colosseum after fears tourists would slip on the icy ruins, and...

5 February, 2012 - 2:00am

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