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Pharrell Williams Should Be Quite Happy in $7 Million LA Home

Filed under: Buying, Celebrity Homes, Selling ZillowThe architecturally significant contemporary home sits on 1.5 acres overlooking the lights of Los Angeles. By Melissa Allison Pharrell Williams and his big hat are headed west. The “Happy” singer recently dropped $7.14 million on a contemporary estate high in the hills above Los Angeles, Variety reports. Its Jetsons-style living room, complete with a floating fireplace, is surrounded by walls of glass with views

Economic growth halves hunger in Asia over 25 years: U.N.

By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Economic growth helped the Asia-Pacific region to halve the proportion of those who have too little to eat to 12 percent of its population over the past 25 years, meeting one of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, U.N. officials said on Thursday. The target, one of eight international development goals set by the United Nations in 2000, was to halve the proportion