Paintings by some of the world’s most famous artists have been stolen by an armed gang from a museum in Zurich.
Four oil paintings worth more than 112,000,000 Euros by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were taken in the weekend robbery from the E.G. Buehrle museum.
A police statement said three robbers wearing ski masks and dark clothing entered the museum half-an-hour before closing on Sunday.
This is the Aerion Supersonic Business Jet, the first private plane that will fly at 1.6 Mach.
The first unit has just been purchased by Sheikh Rashid, the ruler of Dubai. This bird will be able to fly anyone from Paris to New York in just over 4 hours, so even while it has a $80,000,000 price tag, there will be no demand problems for it.
The aircraft specs are amazing: Thanks to its design, the Aerion Supersonic Business Jet will be able to cruise at 1.15 Mach over land without producing any boom on the ground.
For nearly seven years Melina Salazar did her best to put on a smile and tend to the every need of her most loyal and cantankerous customer.
She made sure his food was as hot as he wanted, even if it meant he burned his mouth. And she smiled through his demands and curses.
The 89-year-old Walter “Buck” Swords obviously appreciated it, leaving the waitress $50,000 and a 2000 Buick when he died.
It is official that China has become the country with the second largest population of billionaires in the world, just behind the US.
Revealed by the World Entrepreneur magazine, a list of 2007’s top 500 Chinese magnates determined their combined wealth more than 587 billion dollars.
Though the list included many from Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, the Kwok brothers of Sun Hung Kai Properties in Hong Kong topped the list.
Goldman Sachs Group have just bought 230 Park Avenue, New York for $1.15 billion from a property investment fund owned by Dubai’s government.
Istithmar World Real Estate sold the property to Goldman’s Whitehall Fund and Monday Properties, the Dubai-based company.
The 172-meter tall 230 Park Avenue building, also known as the Helmsley Building and having 35 floors, originally served as headquarters of the New York Central railroad companies.
A New York man paid a whopping $825,000 for one of the most prominently flawed stamps in U.S. history.
The rare 1918 24-cent stamp shows an upside-down Curtis JN-4 biplane known as Jenny, a World War I training aircraft that became an airmail plane.
The mint condition red, white and blue stamp is said to be one of the finest known existing stamps from the original sheet of 100 misprints.
