Source theguardian.comAuthorities inSaudi Arabiaare offering businessmen and members of the royal family detained on allegations of corruption an opportunity to pay for their freedom, according to media reports.Around 200 princes, ministers, senior militaryofficersand wealthy businessmenhave been heldin five-star hotels across the country since last week, many of them at the opulent Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh.Quoting “people briefed on the discussions”, the Financial Times reported that the Saudi

Source: edition.cnn.comFormer President George H.W. Bush is facing new allegations from a Michigan woman who said he touched her inappropriately while he was in office at an event in April 1992.The woman, now 55, spoke exclusively with CNN and said she was attending a fundraiser for Bush's re-election campaign in Dearborn, Michigan, with her father when the president grabbed her rear end during a photo-op.We got closer together for a family photo and it was like 'Holy crap!' she said

Source: bbc.comAn Iranian weightlifter has put his Rio 2016 gold medal up for auction to raise money for the victims of last week'sdeadly 7.3-magnitude earthquakenear the Iran-Iraq border.Kianoush Rostami, 26,announced the news on his Instagram page.More than 400 people were killed and close to 10,000 injured in the quake.The western Kermanshah province is the worst-affected area, with hundreds of homes destroyed and some residents sleeping outdoors in the cold.MrRostami, himself from Kerman

Source: nbcnews.comPope Francis received some hot new wheels on Wednesday in the form of a white-and-yellow Lamborghini but he won't be using it on the tree-shaded roads of the Vatican gardens.The donated Lamborghini Huracan, which normally sells for more than $200,000, was signed by the pope outside his Vatican residence and will be auctioned by Sotheby's, with proceeds given to the pontiff to help the needy.The Vatican said all the money would go to projects to help Christians return t

Source: foxnews.comA painting by Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci that depicts Jesus Christ holding an orb sold for a world record $450.3 million at Christie’s auction house in New York Wednesday night.The painting, called Salvator Mundi, Italian for Savior of the World, is one of fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo known to exist and the only one in private hands. The buyer was not immediately identified.The highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction had been $179.4 milli

Source: bbc.comMissing UK explorer Benedict Allen has been seen alive and well near an airstrip in Papua New Guinea.BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner saidMrAllen had asked to be rescued and efforts wereunderwayto retrieve him.A search was mounted for the 57-year-old after his family said he had not taken planned flights home.MrAllen wastravellingon his own to try to find the reclusive Yaifo tribe, whom he first met 30 years ago.His agent, Jo Sarsby, said it was believed thatMrAllen was wa

Source: reuters.comFrance said on Wednesday that Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who Lebanon’s president says is being held hostage by Saudi Arabia, will visit France with his family in coming days.Hariritravelledto Riyadh on Nov. 3 before abruptly resigning in a televised statement a day later.He has stayed in Riyadh and top Lebanese officials and senior politicians close to Hariri have told Reuters he was forced to quit.Hariri and Saudi Arabia have both denied he is being held in Riya

Source: frAance24.comAgroup of Mexicans who served with the US military in Vietnam and Iraq only to be deported held a Veterans Day protest on Saturday in the border city Ciudad Juarez.A stone's throw from the bridge between Juarez and El Paso, Texas, the deportees demonstrated with the flags of their US military units.We served a country that has cheated us, said Jose Francisco Lopez Moreno, 64. Many Mexicans have served in the US military in exchange for expedited residency.But these veter

Source: 12news.comOne of Bill Gates' investment firms has spent $80 million to kickstart the development of a brand-new community in the far West Valley.The large plot of land is about 45 minutes west of downtown Phoenix off I-10 near Tonopah.The proposed community, made up of close to 25,000 acres of land, is called Belmont.According to Belmont Partners, a real estate investment group based in Arizona, the goal is to turn the landinto its own smart city.Belmont will create a forward-thinkin

Source: thedailybeast.comThe latest book by Italian investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, titledOriginal Sindelves beyond the sleazy rumors and alleges blatant criminal activity in Vatican City.Nuzzi hand-delivered his book to the Vatican’s chief prosecutor. “There is proof of crimes committed by clerics against children,” he says. “Let’s see what they do with it.”The book is filled with salacious scoops, backed up by copies of documents printed in an exhaustive index.He shines a light