For high-rolling drivers in the United Arab Emirates, no car is complete without a single-digit license plate. The oil-rich country's wealthy elite are willing to drop millions of dollars to get their hands on one. Dubai property developer Balwinder Sahni wanted a highly coveted plate bearing the number 5. He wanted it so much, he bid 33 million dirhams ($9 million) for it at a government auction earlier this month. It was one of the largest sums ever spent on a license plate, although still lower than the $14 million record set in 2008 by an Abu Dhabi businessman. Sahni found that his big purchase also brought him a lot of attention. He says he can't go out in public without people stopping
CNN MoneyHannah Gavios, 23, broke her back and lay helpless trapped on rocks while Apai Ruangwong, 28, subjected her to a 10-hour ordeal on September 1. Hannah had been teaching English in Vietnam when she took a holiday to Railay Beach in the resort of Krabi, arriving on September 1. Hannah fought him off and fled but ran off the edge of a cliff in the darkness, fracturing her spine leaving her trapped at the bottom of the cliff, where Ruangwong repeatedly sexually molested her for several hours as she lay helpless.
Ellen ManningDOHUK, Iraq - A dusty Land Cruiser bounces down a pale, tent-lined lane at the back of a remote displacement camp, stopping near a small circle of women and children. A fragile, young woman with a toddler in her arms climbs out of the vehicle and is enveloped by the waiting throng. A bittersweet commotion follows, with weeping, hugs and cries of confusion from young children. The new arrival is Gazal, a 22-year-old Yazidi who has spent the last 27 months of her life as an ISIS sex slave. But on Thursday, she was plucked from the depths of hell in Syria, and in the final phase of a complex rescue operation, delivered to what is left of her community. KURDS CULTIVATE SPIES DEEP WITHIN ISIS "Thanks
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Business InsiderIn the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union constructed a super submarine unlike any other. Fast and capable of astounding depths for a combat submersible, the submarine Komsomolets was introduced in 1984, heralded as a new direction for the Soviet Navy. Five years later, Komsomolets and its nuclear weapons were on the bottom of the ocean, two-thirds of its crew killed by what was considered yet another example of Soviet incompetence. The history of the Komsomolets goes as far back as 1966. A team at the Rubin Design Bureau under N. A. Klimov and head designer Y. N. Kormilitsin was instructed to begin research into a Project 685, a deep-diving submarine. The research effort dragged on for eight years,
The National InterestA man jumps into a panda enclosure at a zoo in China only to be wrestled to the ground by the black and white bear. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Entertainment TonightSomething significant happened on Friday that warrants more than just a few column inches in a newspaper. With the most divisive presidential election in U.S. history just days away from concluding, it is easy to understand why more is not being made of the news, but just to tell you something seismic happened on Friday last week. The world's largest listed oil company, Exxon, announced that it was going to have to cut its reported proved reserves by just under a fifth-by 19 percent. It would be the biggest reserve revision in the history of the oil industry. It is yet another sign that Big Oil is in big trouble. For years people have been warning that Big Oil's business model was fundamentally
EcoWatchIdris Elba isn’t giving you a chance to speculate about his sex life. The hunky star is shooting down a rumor that he and Madonna have a little something going on.
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