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Global auction house Sotheby's kicked off its spring sales in Hong Kong by selling all lots in a two-day wine sale, outstripping expectations, but the picture was less clear for its Asian and Chinese art sales as buyers became more selective.

Lara Flynn Boyle is the latest celebrity victim of Pillow Face syndrome, as she was seen on Saturday in Los Angeles in paparazzi photos with an almost unrecognizable puffy, swollen face most likely the result of fillers or bad plastic surgery.

Unions, students and others have protested the proposed cuts by staging huge demonstrations in Barcelona, Madrid and other cities across the beleaguered country.

Ashley Greene is no stranger to photographers, her superstar status has been steadily rising ever since the initial Twilight film hit theaters. Greene has been spotted in New York on several occasions while filming Pan Am and the TV movie Americana.

Shell is moving closer to the date when it can start drilling for oil in Arctic waters off Alaska. The company may soon get the Department of the Interior's approval and could begin operations by year's end.

More than 100 advertisers, including all his technology advertisers except for LifeLock, withdrew their commercials from “The Rush Limbaugh Show” in the past five weeks.

Jeremy Lin underwent successful surgery Monday on his injured left knee.

One of London's most prominent bankers was fined 450,000 pounds ($720,000) for passing on inside information in a case that will embarrass his employer J.P. Morgan Cazenove and which marks a push by British regulators to target high-profile figures.

Unesco has issued a warning for the safety of Timbuktu since the Tuareg rebels defeat of Malian government authorities in the northern part of the country.

On Monday, the Bhutanese government led a session in the UN called Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm, that highlighted the world's happiest countries and discussed how to put happiness on the global agenda.

The International Committee of the Red Cross President Jakob Kellenberger met with Syrian government ministers in Damascus on Tuesday to demand access to the wounded, displaced and hungry civilians.

American citizens can sponsor their foreign spouse for residence -- but federal law prevents same-sex couples from doing so. Five gay, bi-national couples have sued to change what they say is an injustice that violates the Constitution.

New information on Anna Chapman, the beautiful Russian Spy arrested in New York in 2010, is being released. We were becoming very concerned, revealed FBI counterintelligence chief, Frank Figliuzzi.

Many Avengers fans cannot wait until May 4 to see their favorite action heroes join forces on the big screen. Luckily for them, they have a chance to attend an advanced screening of the film on April 14.

A day after Iraq's oil minister announced Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) confirmed it was freezing a controversial exploration deal in Kurdistan, the autonomous region's natural resource minister said Baghdad is lying.

Demand to view the U.S 1940 Census has been so high that the Website crashed after receiving 22 million hits in four hours on Monday, according to the U.S National Archives.

Jeremy Lin had successful surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee and made sure to prove to fans that he was actually alright. Nevertheless, he is expected to miss up to six weeks.

Mirlande Wilson has gotten herself into a real mess -- a Mega Millions mess that is. Mirlande Wilson, a 37-year-old Haitian immigrant from Baltimore, Md., reportedly claims to hold one of the three Mega Millions winning tickets for the record-breaking $656 million cash prize. But her McDonald's co-workers claim that Wilson purchased the winning ticket with money from an office lottery pool.

A new survey of U.S. teenagers finds that most have used alcohol and drugs by the time they reach adulthood, and researchers say that could be setting up many of them for a lifetime of substance abuse.

Royal Bank of Canada (TSE:RY), the country's largest bank, said Tuesday it will acquire the 50 percent of RBC Dexia Investor Services Ltd. it does not already own from its joint-venture partner Banque Internationale à Luxembourg S.A. for C$1.1 billion ($1.1 billion) in cash.

Stocks were set to take a breather on Tuesday after the S&P 500 climbed to a 4-year high and ahead of factory orders data and minutes of the latest Federal Reserve meeting.