Abbie Fentress Swanson

Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" sold for $106 million at a Christie's auction in New York yesterday to an unidentified buyer. That's the highest price for a piece of art since Alberto Giacometti's “Walking Man I” sold for $104.3 million in February.

Greek public sector workers hit the streets today, opposing new austerity measures that Greece's parliament is expected to vote on this week.

The 2010 Tony Award nominations, which honor the best in Broadway, were announced today. The winners will be announced on June 13.

The energy giant BP has almost finished constructing its first concrete-and-steel containment box which it will use to contain oil leaking from a pipe connected to a sunken rig off the Lousiana coast.

Federal agents and police have arrested a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan for driving a failed car bomb into Times Square.

Tens of thousands of people saw each one of soprano Renée Fleming's strawberry blond curls during the Metropolitan Opera's matinee production of Gioachino Rossini's "Armida" on Saturday.

Oil is still pouring into the Gulf of Mexico nearly two weeks after Deepwater Horizon sunk.

Prosecutors will have to prove Goldman execs guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Increased consumer spending on home furnishings, household appliances, cars, clothes and nights out at bars and restaurants drove the boost.

Pelicans, river otters and mink will be the first wildlife to come into contact with the oil on land.

Germany's three opposition parties agreed today to fast-track through parliament a bailout bill for Greece.

A Valencian Spanish architect will design the sets for five ballets for this year's New York City Ballet Architecture of Dance festival.

Scientists estimate that oil is now leaking at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day, not the 1,000 suspected.

The Guard hopes its new plan will contain a 42,000 gallon oil leak under the sea.

Security forces in Thailand opened fire today at hundreds of protestors headed on motorbikes and in trucks to a rally outside Bangkok.

The Metropolitan Opera has dubbed the Italian conductor Fabio Luisi, 51, its Principal Guest Conductor.

Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany will help Greece if it enacts new austerity measures.

For the second day in a row, Republicans blocked a vote on the Democrats' financial reform bill.