The "Oppenheimer Blue", a large and rare diamond, sold for 56.837 million Swiss francs ($57.6 million) at auction on Wednesday, setting a world record for any gem after a dramatic see-saw bidding process, Christie's in Geneva said.
An Angolan millionaire has offered the Portuguese government a proposal to buy the country's Joan Miro art collection for 44 million euros (60 million U.S. dollars).
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a potential Republican candidate in 2016 presidential campaign, said Tuesday he accepted the full responsibility for the scandal surrounding the lane closures on a highly busy bridge in the fall last year.
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