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'Like a video game': Japan's gangs hire online
'Like a video game': Japan's gangs hire online
Technology
by  AFP

Risa Yamada grew up fatherless and struggled to find consistent work until she stumbled on an intriguing job listing: one of a growing number of advertisements posted on social media by Japanese criminal gangs. - Gateway - Black-market job advertisements have long appeared in Japanese magazines or on stickers in public toilets.

Picasso's 'Woman with a Watch' fetches $139 mn at NY auction
Picasso's 'Woman with a Watch' fetches $139 mn at NY auction
Economy
by  AFP

One of Pablo Picasso's masterpieces, "Woman with a Watch," was sold at auction Wednesday night for $139.3 million by Sotheby's in New York, the second-highest price ever achieved for the artist. When it went under the hammer at Christie's New York in 2015, it was also the record for any work of art sold at auction.