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A work by Pablo Picasso, Les Femmes D'Alger, has become the world's most expensive painting sold at auction. It fetched more than a-hundred-and-seventy-nine million dollars.

A veteran US investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, has disputed the Obama administration's account of the death of the Al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, in Pakistan four years ago. Writing in the London Review of Books, Mr Hersch says that the killing of Bin Laden was not an all-American affair and the Pakistanis were well aware of the operation AND that they'd known his whereabouts since 2006. The White House insists its version is accurate.

Election monitors from the Europoean Union have spoken of their fears for the upcoming Presidential election in Burundi. Belgium said it is suspending the second tranche of 5 million dollars to Burundi due to concerns after violent protests. Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has rejected EU and US calls to delay controversial elections set for June.
(Picture: Jussi Pylkkanen, president of Christie's, takes bids at an auction for the art work, "Les femmes d"Alger (Version O)" painted by Pablo Picasso, on May 11, 2015 in New York City. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)