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Today, in celebration of the one-year-out mark for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Lenovo, Worldwide Partner for the Olympic Torch Relay and TOP Sponsor of the Olympic Games, announced plans for a global online philanthropic auction. The auction will feature limited-edition notebook computers inspired by the Lenovo-designed 2008 Olympic Torch.

A pair of gold-rimmed, wire sunglasses worn by Beatle John Lennon have come up for auction at a British website and could fetch more than $US1.5 million.

Ableauctions.com (AMEX:AAC - News) announced today that it expects to release second quarter 2007 results of operations during the week of August 13, 2007.

A love letter from Napoleon to his mistress Josephine sold for 276,000 pounds (EUR 409,000; US$557,000), more than five times its estimate, at a London auction that attracted spirited bidding for several rare items.

A deck log from a ship that searched for bodies after the Titanic sank sold for more than $100,000 (euro74,000) as part of a Christie's auction of memorabilia from the doomed oceanliner.

An auction of the King of Pop Michael Jackson's memorabilia this week brought in between USD 1.5 and two million, said the company that organised the sale, promising to hold another.

A subsidiary of Russia's state-run oil producer Rosneft has won the fifth auction for smaller assets of the now bankrupt oil company Yukos, the country's federal property fund said on Wednesday, April 18.

The first session of Russian art sale held by Sotheby's auction house on Monday, April 16, yielded $9.6 million.

The Metropolitan Opera has announced the company's "Art for Opera" auction. Proceeds from the fundraising event, to be held on the Met stage on Sunday, May 6, will support new productions.