UPI almanac for Saturday, July 14, 2007.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Christie's in New York held another record-setting auction this week, with postwar paintings fetching sky-high prices.

Today is Friday, July 14, the 195th day of 2006 with 170 to follow.

NEW YORK, June 19 (UPI) -- A portrait by Gustav Klimt reportedly has been bought for $135 million, making it the most expensive painting to have ever been purchased. The gold-flecked 1907 oil portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" by Klimt was purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan by

VIENNA, June 15 (UPI) -- Austrian journalist Hubertus Czernin, who was instrumental in returning art seized by the Nazis to its rightful owner, has died in Vienna at 50.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A court in Austria ordered its government to hand over five Nazi-stolen paintings worth nearly $150 million to a Jewish woman living in Los Angeles.

Today is Thursday, July 14, the 195th day of 2005 with 170 to follow.

NEW YORK, April 23 (UPI) -- Actress/model Elizabeth Hurley has introduced her beachwear collection, entitled Elizabeth Hurley Beach, at New York City's Saks Fifth Avenue.

, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- American film star John Malkovich has been cast to portray Gustav Klimt, in the first film biography of the great Austrian painter.