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Sky high: NYC ‘trophy apartment’ could list for $250mn

  AP Billionaires’ Row. That’s what New York real estate experts have dubbed a lineup of a half-dozen new superluxury skyscrapers overlooking Central Park that are home to some of the world’s most expensive apartments. One penthouse on the 89th and 90th floors of a skyscraper near Carnegie Hall that went for more than $100 million seems almost a bargain ...

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Nigeria pays the price of violence

  Obagaji / AFP Anyebe Peter has only recently returned to his farm in central Nigeria, nearly three months after attacks by Fulani herdsmen killed seven villagers, destroyed 250 homes and forced survivors to flee. “Nothing is left for us either on our farm or in our village after the attack,” he said in Adagbo, a stone’s throw from the ...

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Saving Myanmar’s chessmen from checkmate

  Yangon / AFP Gripping a monkey-faced chess piece, TheinZaw swipes his hand across the chequerboard and topples an advancing demon, demonstrating an ancient form of the game that Myanmar traditionalists are battling to revive. Sittuyin, as Myanmar’s unique chess is called, is similar to the modern game but has distinctive pieces as well as moves that echo a time ...

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