The artwork Orange, red, yellow by Mark Rothko fetches $86.9 million (£53.8m), the highest ever price for a piece of post-war art sold at auction.

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Rothko work hits record $86.9m

A basejumper takes on the highest vertical cliff in the UK, jumping 1,100ft from St John’s Head on Orkney.

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One fight for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is over. He will be the Republican presidential nominee this fall. But, now a bigger challenge awaits. A slew of recent polling shows him running well behind President Obama and with some of the highest unfavorable ratings of any presidential nominee at this time in the race. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee. Now what?

Chrysler and Ford said their American sales rose last month to the highest level in at least four years, while G.M. said it sold a record number of fuel-efficient cars.

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U.S. Car Sales Keep Up Their Firm Growth

The District has one of the highest levels of income inequality among the nation’s cities, with the top fifth earning on average 29 times the income of the bottom fifth. Only Atlanta and Boston showed higher levels of income inequality in 2010, according to an analysis of census data by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute. Read full article > >

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Income inequality gap in D.C. one of nation’s widest

U.S. farmers will plant the most acres in a generation this year, led by the biggest corn crop since World War II, taking advantage of the highest agricultural prices in at least four decades. They will sow corn, soybeans and wheat on 226.9 million acres, the most since 1984, a Bloomberg survey of 36 farmers, bankers and analysts showed. The 2.5 percent gain means an expansion the size of New Jersey as growers target fields left fallow last year and land freed up from conservation programs. Read full article > >

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WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes in November rose to the highest level in a year and a half. Normally, such a gain would suggest a turnaround for the depressed housing market. But a growing number of buyers are canceling their contracts at the last minute, making it a less reliable gauge. Read full article > >

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Contract signings for US homes up 7 percent in November, highest since April 2010

Venezuela experienced a record number of murders this year – 53 a day on average – the highest in South America, a campaign group says.

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Venezuela ‘highest murder rate’

The number of qualified staff for each vacancy in the City of London is at the highest for two years, according to a financial services recruitment firm.

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‘More competition’ for City jobs

Annual net migration to the UK was 252,000 in 2010 – the highest calendar year figure on record, Office for National Statistics figures show.

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Migration in 2010 at record high

The Olympic flame will be taken by rail to the summit of Snowdon, the highest point of the 2012 relay route.

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Top of Snowdon for Olympic flame

A new record is set for the highest temperature recorded in October – at 29.9C (85.8F)

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October heat record set at 29.9C

The record for the highest temperature recorded in October in Wales is broken with 28.2C (82.8F) reached at Hawarden in Flintshire.

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Initial jobless claims rose again to 428,000 from 417,000 for the week ending Sept. 10, the Labor Department reported Thursday, the highest number the country has seen since June. According to a Reuters report , a Labor Department official said that Hurricane Irene did not appear to affect the number of claims. Read full article > >

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Jobless claims rise for second week

The nation’s poverty rate spiked to 15.1 percent in 2010, the highest level since 1993, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday, providing vivid new evidence about the nation’s inability to escape the lingering effects of the recession. About 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty last year, marking an increase of 2.6 million over 2009 and the fourth consecutive annual increase in poverty. Read full article > >

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U.S. poverty rate reaches 15.1 percent