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Head of a Young Apostle, by Renaissance artist Raphael, has been prevented from leaving the country by the Government. At right most a self-portrait by Rafael, who, born Raffaello Santi in Urbino, Italy, in 1483, died aged just 37 of a fever in 1520.

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London . A Renaissance drawing that sold at auction for nearly 30million is to be prevented from leaving the UK. Head of a Young Apostle, by the celebrated Italian artist Raphael, has been in Britain for more than 300 years. It was part of a private collection at Chatsworth House, the Duke of Devonshires stately home in Derbyshire. But the 14in by 11in black chalk drawing was sold at Sothebys in London in December, with a foreign buyer paying 29.7million almost three times the estimate and a record for a work on paper. It is the equivalent of nearly 200,000 per square inch. Thursday the Government imposed a three-month export ban on the drawing, ruling it to be of outstanding cultural importance. Now it is hoped a British museum or gallery can raise the small fortune needed to save it for the nation. The work dates from around 1519 and was done as a study for the head of one of the figures in Raphaels painting Transfiguration, which was left uncompleted when he died in 1520 and which hangs in the Vatican Museum. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, who imposed the temporary export ban at the recommendation of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, said: I hope that [this] will allow time for a UK buyer to come forward and secure this magnificent example of Raphaels work for the nation.

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London . Boredom in retirement is sending men back to work, a study has suggested. Financial troubles and missing the workplace may also lie behind a rise in people becoming unretired. One in 20 men aged between 50 and 74 has decided to go back to work, according to research presented to the Royal Economic Societys conference in London. Most returned to some form of work four years after retirement. The 'unretired' tend to be highlyskilled professionals with at least one Alevel or equivalent and an average salary of 50,000 at 2006 levels. They are most likely to take a consultancy or managerial role for an average of 20 hours a week. Christopher Brooks, of Age UK, said many people simply enjoy the identi?cation of the workplace, so when they stop working they miss it. The research also suggested money was a significant factor. Men who suffered a loss of equity when house prices fell in 2008 were the most likely to look for a job in retirement. Numbers of men and women re-

Boredom 'leads retired men

Madrid . United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday urged nations around the world to do more to fulfil the goal of reducing extreme poverty and improve living standards by 2015. UN member states in 2000 agreed to eight targets known as Millennium Development Goals aimed to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women by 2015. Halving the number of people who live on less than one dollar a day by 2015 is one of the goals that was set in 2000. "I am making an appeal that we speed up the actions which we must take," the UN chief said at the end of a meeting of UN agencies in Madrid.

Pope stresses "fundamental" importance of women in Church

Madrid . Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world's biggest spending travellers after a decade of robust growth in the numbers of them holidaying abroad, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation. Chinese tourists spent $102bn (67bn) on foreign trips last year, outstripping those from Germany and the US. They also spent 41% more on foreign travel in 2012 than they did the year before. Travellers from other fast-growing economies with swelling middle classes, such as Russia and Brazil, also increased their spending in 2012. In recession-hit Europe, however, French and Italian tourists reined in their holiday budgets. "The impressive growth of tourism expenditure from China and Russia reflects the entry into the tourism market of a growing middle class from these countries," said the UNWTO secretary-general, Taleb Rifai.

Chinese tourists visting the Palace of Versaille in France.

turning to work are expected to increase when the compulsory retirement age is abolished and as life expectancy increases. Since the early 1990s, the number of people working past state retirement age has doubled to 1.4million. Ricky Kanabar, a York University doctoral candidate in economics who presented the paper, said people who come out of retirement could contribute signi?cantly to the British economy. Pensioners are not classified as unemployed, so their unretirement boosts employment figures without cutting unemployment. There has also been a rise in 60-yearold women in work since the pension age for women rose from 60 to 61, a separate study presented at the conference revealed. The Institute for Fiscal Studies paper showed employment rates for 60-year-olds had risen by seven percentage points.

Rome . Pope Francis emphasised the "fundamental" importance of women in the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday, saying they were the first witnesses of Christ and have a special role in spreading the faith. The pontiff's decision a week ago to include women in a traditional foot-washing ritual drew ire from traditionalists, who see the custom as a re-enactment of Jesus washing the feet of his apostles and said it should, therefore, be limited to men. Pope Francis, elected last month as the first non-European pope in 1,300 years, said women had always had a special mission in the Church as "first witnesses" of Christ's resurrection, and because they pass belief onto their children and grandchildren. "In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord," he told thousands of pilgrims at his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square.