world’s costliest watch

One of the most complicated watches ever made, it also became the most expensive watch ever sold when it was hammered down for $11 million at Sotheby’s.The gold pocket watch features 24 complications, (Complications are mechanical functions of the watch other than the hours, minutes and seconds.)

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Palm beach

It’s the home of Sydney’s most expensive beachfront. A haunt for celebrities and captains of industry, where holiday rentals fetch $30,000-plus a week in summer. But there is more to “Palmy” than envy and stargazing.The most northerly of the metropolitan beaches, it’s also one of Sydney’s safest. Extending from Barrenjoey Head, where the 126-year-old lighthouse [...]

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Angelina Jolie gets virtually naked

She regularly tops Hollywood’s best dressed list but Angelina Jolie has abandoned clothes all together for her latest movie. In scenes sure to set pulses racing, the much lusted-after star emerges from a lake completely naked except for dripping gold liquid. For the adult fantasy film Beowulf, Jolie plays the mother of Grendel the [...]

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