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Hollywood’s Top 10 military spenders

highest-paid Most
women 1. United States $734 billion in line with the world average of defense investments 66.9%
expensive
books sold on
Forbes magazine has According to the Stockholm 2.7%. over the past decade.
Abebooks
announced Hollywood’s top International Peace Research
10 highest paid actresses with Institute, the world’s biggest 5. Russia $59.1 billion 9. India $40.3 billion India’s 1. The Three
Musketeers,
46-year-old Sandra Bullock on defense spender has increased Russia’s military spending has spending has increased 67.3%
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top. She made an estimated its outlay by 75.8% since 2000. seen a 105% increase since over the decade, according to $7827
US $56 million from June 2009 2000. experts. But per capita military
2. The Worst
to June 2010 with the help of 2. China $111 billion Beijing spending in India the world’s Journey in the
romantic comedy The Proposal, regards its military expenditures 6. Japan $56.6 billion second most-populous country World: Antarctic
which grossed US $320 million as a state secret, but experts The world’s second-largest is one of the world’s lowest, at 1910-1913, Apsley
at the box office followed closely estimate that China spent $100 economy is focusing revenues just $30.4 per person. Cherry-Garrard -
by The Blind Side, which made billion on its military in 2009. away from military, decreasing $6232
US $310 million. According such spending by 1.3% over the 10. Italy- $39.7 billion 3. La Bibbia,
Top 5 most expensive Most to Forbes, Bullock received a 3. France $70.9 billion The past decade. That’s less than Over the past decade, Rome Tradotta in Lingva
paintings sold expensive cars portion of the profits as well as biggest military spender in 1% of total GDP. decreased state military Tofcana, Lucantonio
Giunti - $6108
available on her acting fees. Europe increased its budget spending by 13.3% more than
1. Portrait of Adele Bloch- US $95.2 million at auction at the market 7.4% from 2000. France has 7. Germany $50.6 billion The any other country in the top 4. The George
Baeur by Gustav Klimt – Sotheby’s in 2006. 2009-2010 Sandra Bullock the world’s second-highest per biggest economy in Europe has 10. According to Stockholm- Eumorfopoulos
$62.2 million Collection, R.L.
$149.9 million 1. Bugatti Veyron capita military expenditures, at gradually shifted revenues away based SIPRI’s annual report, of Hobson - $5080
4. Portrait of Dr. Gachet by $1.8 million Reese Witherspoon $1,026 per person. from defense, causing a 6.7% the 19 states in the G20, only
5. Pale Fire,
This 1907 painting was seized Vincent van Gogh – $91.6 2. Lamborghini $35.5 million drop in military spending over Argentina, Indonesia and Italy
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by the Nazis of Germany when million Reventon 4. England $64.5 billion the past decade. did not increase their military $4442
the Nazis occupied Austria. $1.7 million Cameron Diaz London increased military spending in 2009.
Source:
In 2006, Ronard S. Lauder, a There were two authentic 3. McLaren F1 $35.5 million spending 28.1% over the 8. Saudi Arabia $45.7 billion Source: Rediff.com huffingtonpost.com
cosmetics entrepreneu,r bought versions of the painting, both $1.07 million decade. As a percentage of The biggest military spender in
Jennifer Aniston
the painting for US $135 million. painted in 1890. A 75-year-old 4. Ferrari Enzo GDP, that’s 2.5%, and about the Middle East has increased
He later exhibited the painting Japanese businessman who $30 million
$744,070
in his New York gallery, Neue had an immense affection for Sarah Jessica Parker
5. Pagani Zonda
Galerie. the painting bought the first $27.7 million
version in 1990 saying he
C12 F $741,095
The worlds most expensive
6. SSC Ultimate
2. Garcon a la Pipe by Pablo wanted it cremated with him
Aero $727,131
Julia Roberts
big cities in 2010
Picasso – $115.5 million when he died. Although this $22.2 million
never eventuated, the exact 7. Saleen S7 Twin
Turbo $616,684 Angelina Jolie Rank 2010 Rank 2009* city country
The oil painting describes a boy location of the painting is
in Paris holding a pipe in his unknown. The second version, 8. Koenigsegg CCX $22.2 million 1 - Luanda Angola
right hand. It was painted during which was painted in a different $606,221
Drew Barrymore 2 1 Tokyo Japan
1904-1906, the Rose Period, colour, is at the Paris museum 9. Mercedes
$16.6 million
when it was popular to paint in Musée d’Orsay. Benz SLR 3 - Ndjamena Chad
McLaren Meryl Streep
bright orange and pink colours.
Roadster 4 3 Moscow Russia
It sold at New York’s Sotheby’s 5. Bal Au Moulin de la Gallet $550,031 $14.4 million
auction in 2004 for US$104 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir – 5 4 Geneva Switzerland
10. Porsche Kristen Stewart
million. $83.2 million 6 2 Osaka Japan
Carrera GT $13.3 million
$488,917
3. Dora with Cat by Pablo Painted by the French artist in Source: Forbes 7 - Libreville Gabon
Source:
Picasso – $105.7 million 1876 it depicts a typical Sunday 8 6 Zurich Switzerland
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afternoon at Moulin de la Galette
The self-portrait was painted in in the district of Montmartre in 9 5 Hong Kong Hong Kong
1941 raising controversy that Paris. In 1990 his widow sold 10 7 Copenhagen Denmark
it misrepresented his lover of the painting at Sotheby’s for $78
10 years, Dora Maar. It sold for million. Source: Mercer Consulting. Please note: *Additional cities have been added
to the 2010 rankings. A direct comparison with the 2009 rankings is therefore
Source: www.mostexpensiveworld.com not possible.
Tokyo, Japan

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Around
the
world
America:
Beach Boys representatives are
threatening to sue Katy Perry and
take a portion of her royalties after
she allegedly used one of their
most famous lyrics in her California
Girls song. The legendary line is
uttered by Snoop Dogg at the very
end of Perry’s track, which has
sold more than three million copies
so far, making it one of the most
popular songs in America for the
summer.
South America :
Multinational Pepsico is set to
invest US$3 million in Peru – to
create a potato research centre.
Luis Montoya, president of the
beverage division in Latin America,
said there was a firm commitment
by the company to invest in Peru.
“The company has 19 different
brands and that represents over
$1 billion dollars and not all are
available in Peru. There is an
opportunity there,” he said.
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ENGLAND:
In more good news for BP, the
company has been hit with a US
$10 billion lawsuit – this time for
an alleged leak of toxic chemicals
at its Texas City refinery. The class
action on behalf of 2000 claimants
is linked to an alleged leak in April
and May. The lawyer responsible
for the suit said his clients were
seeking compensation for health
effects “including all symptoms
associated with acute benzene
exposure”, the London Daily
Telegraph reported.
Europe:
A piano found in Germany that
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may
have played could be worth
millions. When manufacturer
Martin Becker decided to auction
off the fortepiano, a music historian
noticed the offer and “had a hunch
that it could be the same long-lost
instrument that Mozart played
whenever he was in Strasbourg,”
public broadcaster SWR said. “I
had the idea to offer it on eBay
and maybe get between 30,000
($43,128) and 40,000 euros for it,”
Mr Becker told the radio station.
But experts said the piano could
be worth millions if its famous
history is established.
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Asia:
A priceless Kohinoor diamond
that was given as a ‘gift’ to Queen
Victoria in 1937, once belonged
to various Hindu, Persian and
Afghan rulers and now the Indian
government wants it back. Britain
has consistently rejected demands
from the Indian government, as
well as prominent citizens, to
return the Kohinoor to the country
of its origin. The Kohinoor is only
a blob of very condensed carbon
– the issue is emotional and the
stone is seen as symbolic of British
subjugation of India.
Australia:
A $200,000 reward has been
offered by the Queensland
Government to find a tomato
killer. Between five and seven
million tomato plants, 40 tonnes
of vegetables and 16,000 melon,
eggplant, pumpkin and zucchini
seedlings were poisoned in two
attacks on two Bowen farms
in late June, the Townsville
Bulletin said. Police found the
crops at Supa Seedlings Nursery
and Donnelly Farms had been
deliberately poisoned using a
herbicide introduced to the water
supply.
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