World’s oldest car sells at auction for $4.6 m
Steam-powered, built in France in 1884:
A steam-powered car considered the oldest vehicle
in the world still running has sold at auction in the United States
for more than $4.6 million. The De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux
Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout, nicknamed “La Marquise,” which was built
in France in 1884, sold for more than twice its estimate at auction
Friday in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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UN Chief appeals for universal access to energy
‘I studied by candlelight’:
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who himself studied by
candlelight as a child, pleaded Monday for universal access to clean
energy, a privilege denied more than half the world population. “We
need energy not only to be universal, we need it to be clean and
sustainable as well,” he said at an energy conference in Oslo.
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Defying chinese anger and White House warnings:
China currency bill set to clear US Senate
Defying Chinese anger and White House warnings,
the US Senate was set Tuesday to approve legislation to punish China
for alleged currency manipulation widely blamed here for costing
American jobs. The proposal, powered by a tide of US voter
frustration at a sour economy and high unemployment ahead of
November 2012 elections, envisions retaliatory duties on Chinese
exports if the yuan’s value is unfairly “misaligned.”
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