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(Reuters) - For someone with $55 million to spare on an egg-sized diamond, the world's most expensive necklace is on sale this month at a jewelery show in Singapore, reflecting Asia's growing appetite for precious gems and expensive baubles. Known as L'Incomparable, the necklace created by luxury jeweler Mouawad features a yellow, internally flawless diamond of more than 407 carats suspended from a rose gold setting that is studded with 90 white diamonds weighing nearly 230 carats. "Serious interest" has been expressed by a couple of potential buyers from Asia, said Jean Nasr, managing director of Mouawad in Singapore, declining...

The Kwee brothers, Singapore’s fifth richest with a net worth of $5.2 billion, want a piece of the New York sky. Announcing their first venture overseas, the four brothers who collectively run Pontiac Land, yesterday unveiled plans for a 1050 ft towering skyscraper, to come up between the 53rd and 54th streets in New York city. Located in an area now being nicknamed the ‘billionaire’s row’, because of luxury penthouses contracted to come up at $90-$95 million or upwards of $11,000 a square foot on nearby 57th street, Pontiac Land’s skyscraper will house galleries of the Museum of Modern Art...

If you can get to Burbank on Friday (11/8)YOU ARE INVITEDto join us the in the STUDIO AUDIENCE of the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno"to show your support forSenator TED CRUZ Note: The L.A. Chapter has a PROVEN TRACK RECORD at getting into this particular venue. ;) If you will let us know that you will be coming, and if you can get there in time - we will get you in. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will be making his first late-night appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" when he visits on Friday, Nov. 8. The show...

In an appearance on MCNBC’s Morning Joe, Nicole Wallace (former George W. Bush adviser and McCain/Palin campaign adviser) ruined all of the gang’s orgasmic revelry of false equivalency over Obama’s bad numbers in the latest NBC/WSJ poll by pointing out that Republicans have even worse numbers, and there seems to be no bottom for the party. Wallace then warned Republicans to stop being about nothing but criticism, “So I think the peril in looking at these numbers for President Obama is to continue down the path of railing against his administration’s policies.” (VIDEO-AT-LINK)The Republican Party’s approval ratings are at an...

After ranking the Best States for Gun Owners in 2013, we’re back to rank the Best Concealed Carry States. Since federal law specifically addressing the issuance of concealed carry licenses does not yet exist in the U.S., individual states are left with the task of regulating concealed carry laws within their own borders. Over the past few decades, most states in the country have gradually shifted their carry laws to become less restrictive. Despite fewer restrictions, legally carrying a concealed firearm remains vastly different from one state to another—and in some cases one town to another. The diversity of laws...

(CBS News) WASHINGTON - For 31 days now, the Obama administration has been telling us that Americans by the millions are visiting the new health insurance website, despite all its problems. But no one in the administration has been willing to tell us how many policies have been purchased, and this may be the reason: CBS News has learned enrollments got off to an incredibly slow start. Early enrollment figures are contained in notes from twice-a-day "war room" meetings convened within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after the website failed on Oct. 1. They were turned over in...

Janet Yellen Exposed --The Truth Behind the Myth, Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfLlF1vtit8

Once again, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has chosen to open up on a touchy subject in Malaysia while travelling abroad, defending the court ruling which effectively banned Christians here from using the word Allah. He said that the curb against the Catholic weekly, Herald, using the word Allah was necessary to protect public security and national harmony, going as far to describe the Herald as a publication with wide circulation. The Herald publishes 14,000 copies every week and all are sold within the confines of churches. In an interview with Reuters in London, Najib said: "People must understand...

Fellow Conservatives, the time has come. The time has come to free ourselves from the lackluster idiocy of the Republican't party and go our own way. The time has come to tell the political operatives like Tokyo Rove to shove it. The time has come to turn off FOX Snooze once and for all. The time has come to tell the crony capitalists on Wall Street to earn a living in an actual free market instead of leeching off the besieged American taxpayer. In short, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for a third party. It's time for a third party...

A beached sperm whale was spotted in Madeira Beach near John's Pass Thursday morning, according to reports.A beached sperm whale will be put to sleep after it was spotted in Madeira Beach near John's Pass Thursday morning, according to reports. The Florida Wildlife Commission was investigating just how the 30-foot whale became stranded about 20 yards from shore, reported NBC affiliate WFLA. Officials told WFLA the whales never go so close the shore unless they are in duress. In this case, wildlife officials determined the most humane thing to do was to end the whale's suffering. Erin Fougeres with the...

BEIJING: A 10-year-old Chinese boy jumped 30 floors to his death after failing to write a self-criticism letter demanded by his teacher, state media reported on Thursday. The fifth-grade primary school student had been ordered to write a 1,000-character apology by his teacher for talking in class, China National Radio (CNR) reported on its website, citing a neighbour. The educator allegedly told him to jump out of a building after he failed to complete the task, the report quoted relatives and the neighbour as saying. "Teacher, I can't do it," was found written in one of his textbooks, CNR said....

Matthew McClellan, executive director of the National Council of La Raza Action Fund, said the get-out-the-Latino-vote groups are making more than 75,000 calls over the next few days leading up to the race. In addition, they are conducting door-to-door campaigns, putting up advertisements in Spanish-language media and sending direct mail to almost 27,000 households. “The Latino community is tired of talk and demanding action,” McClellan said. “Saying the right thing is not enough and we will be looking for action after is over.” Hector Sanchez, executive director of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, said it is not an...

Catholics across the world are being asked for their views on contraception, same-sex unions and communion for divorced and remarried couples, it has emerged. In preparation for next year's Extraordinary Synod on the Family, which Pope Francis announced earlier this month, the Vatican has sent a questionnaire to the world's bishops to disseminate among priests and people. The responses to the questionnaire will be analysed as part of the preparation for the synod, to take place from 5 to 19 October 2014 on the theme "Pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelisation". The questions, which were sent...

BEIJING: Four domestic Chinese flights were diverted on Thursday after bomb threats were received, state media reported, days after an attack rocked Tiananmen Square in the capital. The official Xinhua news agency reported that an unidentified suspect had been arrested in connection with the false threats, which affected four flights to and from Changsha in the central province of Hunan. Searches of the aircraft found no explosive devices. It was not immediately clear whether the suspect was the same person responsible for a multiple bomb threat made two days earlier, also at Changsha airport. According to central broadcaster CCTV, Tuesday's...

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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow created headlines this week when she alleged that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had plagiarized a recent speech from Wikipedia, but it turns out the liberal cable news host has been accused of plagiarism herself. In 2010 on his blog “Open Salon,” Michael Rodgers of North Port, Fla., wrote a blog post titled “Rachel Maddow Plagiarized My Blog!” “Don’t get me wrong, I love Rachel Maddow,” Rodgers wrote. “Truth be told, I’m a huge fan. So, if she wanted something from my blog, all she had to do was ask. I would have given willingly because that’s...

It’s time for the GOP to apply conservative principles to solve modern problems, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told an audience at the Heritage Foundation Tuesday. “Progressives have become the party of Wall Street, K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue,” he said. “We must become the party of Main Street, everywhere.” Via RCP, jump ahead to the 53:30 mark to hear Lee’s vision for the future of the conservative movement: Full transcript after the jump… SEN. MIKE LEE (R-UTAH): Thank you very much. It’s wonderful to be back at the Heritage Foundation. It has been quite a month in Washington. It began...

JAKARTA: Indonesia said Thursday it was summoning the Australian ambassador after a report that his embassy in Jakarta was being used for surveillance as part of a US-led spying network. Ambassador Greg Moriarty will face questions at the foreign ministry Friday over the "totally unacceptable" activities reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, the ministry said. The report said Australian embassies were being secretly used to intercept phone calls and data across Asia as part of a US-led global spying network. It cited information from fugitive analyst Edward Snowden and a former Australian intelligence officer. The paper said the clandestine surveillance...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Barack Obama will not attend next month’s event marking the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in Pennsylvania, national park officials said. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will instead represent the administration the Nov. 19 sesquicentennial, officials at Gettysburg National Military Park said Wednesday. McPherson, a top Civil War historian who won the Pulitzer for “Battle Cry of Freedom,” said he was surprised by Obama’s decision.

Over the years we have watched (and testified at) countless legislative public hearings in Massachusetts and other states. And we thought we'd seen every kind of sleazy move by arrogant, biased politicians. But we've never seen anything like what the citizens of Hawaii experienced on Monday. To complicate things, a new version of the "gay marriage" bill had been posted only six days before the hearing, without much fanfare. So people had relatively little time to find it and then read, discuss, and analyze it. The first group of speakers were public officials, including the Governor and Attorney General, and...