Picasso sells for over $ 49 m
NEW YORK: Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Dora Maar in a garden fetched over $ 49 million -- a record for any Picasso work -- here late Wednesday at a Sotheby's auction. Sotheby's had estimated the value of the 1938 portrait of Picasso's mistress -- sold for $ 49,502,000 dollars -- at about $ 40 million.The canvas, as well as 46 other works of art auctioned, come from the collection of New York gallery owners Eleanore and Daniel Saidenberg. Hume awarded Legion d'Honneur
PARIS: Nobel peace laureate John Hume, head of Northern Ireland's main Roman Catholic party, was presented with the French Legion d'Honneur here on Wednesday. Hume, 62, who leads the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), was presented with France's top civilian honour in a ceremony at the foreign ministry.
Hume won the Nobel peace prize jointly with the leader of Northern Ireland's Protestant Unionist party, David Trimble, in 1998 for their contribution to the signing of the April 1998peace agreement for the province.
Jackie Chan admits to fling
HONG KONG:
Hollywood action star Jackie Chan has admitted having an affair with a former Miss Asia, Elaine Wu, who is now eight months pregnant. But he refused to confirm whether he was the father of Wu's child, only saying he would take responsibility if the baby turned out to be his.
``I'm not a saint. I've done something wrong. I've done something that many men in this world have done wrong, too,'' Chan told reporters.
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