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    BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 11 May 2015

    Picasso's Women of Algiers becomes most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $179.3m at Christieshttp://bbc.in/1Hdugiz 

    4:37 PM - 11 May 2015
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      2. Paul‏ @ChunkypaulPaul 11 May 2015
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking @anonbirduk: You want proof that police began the violence at #LondonProtests here it is.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw3JD3cDMbA …@BBCNews

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      3. Ellie Basil‏ @basil_ellie 12 May 2015
        Replying to @ChunkypaulPaul

        @ChunkypaulPaul @BBCBreaking @anonbirduk this should be going viral!! Disgusting behaviour from the police.

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      1. Yo‏ @sciencewhore 11 May 2015
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking They should do Anti-Doping tests to bidders... Seriously!

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      1. Julie Ann‏ @MayorOfSnark 11 May 2015
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        @BBCBreaking I like art but all I can think of is how many people that money could have fed.

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      2. # ☝‏ @md1uk 11 May 2015
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking @BBCNews - that's end world hunger price tag!

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      3. BOP‏ @CaIIinUout 11 May 2015
        Replying to @md1uk

        @md1uk If there wasn't #geoengineering then maybe that would be possible

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      4. # ☝‏ @md1uk 12 May 2015
        Replying to @CaIIinUout

        @CaIIinUout would be funny if it turns out to be brilliant fake painting!

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      1. b‏ @bdly25 11 May 2015
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking all that money for paint. Ffs

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      1. JOEY PADUA ‏ @FranFranco32 11 May 2015
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        @BBCBreaking @barbarascully @NorahCasey @Glenna_lynch ,I'm a renoir person myself .

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      1.  ⌚Werner ⌚‏ @Werner_TU 11 May 2015
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        "@BBCBreaking: Picasso's Women of Algiers becomes most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $179.3m at Christies. SURREAL!

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      2.  🐺‏ @RajanXII 11 May 2015
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        @BBCBreaking @leilakebbs

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      1. Reg Gray‏ @argeer65 12 May 2015
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        @bbcbreaking So glad to hear of obscene amounts paid for that painting! There is such inequality in this world!!

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      1. Peter Duckworth‏ @GrumpyPete 12 May 2015
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        @BBCBreaking you wouldn't give it wall space

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      1. Darren Nixon‏ @daznixon1989 11 May 2015
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        @BBCBreaking Obscene amounts of money exchanging hands for a painting when so many in the world are still suffering. #nepal

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      1. Anthony Pearson‏ @PearsonAnt 11 May 2015
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        @BBCBreaking @BBCNews So sad; pure investment greed with another artwork gone to ground. Anonymity suggests philistines.

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      1. Gareth Wynn Jones‏ @wjonesw 11 May 2015
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        @BBCBreaking @BBCNews Surely this amazing art is not worth as much some @premierleague footballers #MoreMoneyThanSense

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      1. Grant Withers‏ @CardinalRegMD 11 May 2015
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        @BBCBreaking More evidence of the #AgeOfAusterity ? #WomenOfAlgiers

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