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Located at 2724 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, this beautiful 1894 Queen Anne mansion has gone on the market with an asking price of $30 million.

San Francisco Parks Alliance and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department recently hosted Party for the Parks at the Anglers Lodge in Golden Gate Park.

Style and society expert Jennifer Raiser reflects on the astonishing 175 year history of Tiffany & Co, founded in 1837.

Bulgari recently unveiled its collection for the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris at a private event in the San Francisco store.

Lara Rug, Brown/Gold

With rich, luscious detailing and a vibrant feel, this rug enlivens any space. Hand-tufted of pure wool with strong cotton backing, the traditional …

Lara Rug, Brown/Gold

With rich, luscious detailing and a vibrant feel, this rug enlivens any space. Hand-tufted of pure wool with strong cotton backing, the traditional …

Lara Rug, Brown/Gold

With rich, luscious detailing and a vibrant feel, this rug enlivens any space. Hand-tufted of pure wool with strong cotton backing, the traditional …

Lara Rug, Brown/Gold

With rich, luscious detailing and a vibrant feel, this rug enlivens any space. Hand-tufted of pure wool with strong cotton backing, the traditional …

Comedy Central is staying in business with Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. The cable network announced Tuesday that it has renewed sketch comedy series Key & Peele for a third season of 13 episodes set for fall 2013. “Since Obama won re-election, it only seems fair that we would give Key & Peele another season,” Comedy Central head of original programming and production Kent Alterman said. The duo, who recently visited with fan President Obama — whom they regularly impersonate on the series — recently took home the breakout comedy stars of the year award at the Montreal Just For Laughs festival. “We are so thrilled about the pickup and want to thank Comedy Central for four more years!” said Key and Peele.  “Oh wait, what’s that? One more year? Oh … OK, that will work too.” The series is created by Key and Peele and executive produced by Key, Peele, Ian Roberts , Jay Martel and Joel Zadak. The season finale of Key & Peele airs Wednesday on Comedy Central

Kabul Bank became Afghanistan’s largest financial institution by offering the promise of modern banking to people who had never had a saving or checking account. What it really dealt in was modern theft. “From its very beginning,” according to a confidential forensic audit of Kabul Bank, “the bank was a well-concealed Ponzi scheme.” Afghan and American officials had for years promoted Kabul Bank as a prime example of how Western-style banking was transforming a war-ravaged economy. But the audit, prepared this year for Afghanistan’s central bank by the Kroll investigative firm, gives new details of how the bank instead was institutionalizing fraud that reached into hundreds of millions of dollars and obliterated Afghans’ trust after regulators finally seized the bank in August 2010 and the theft was revealed. Going further than previous reports, the audit asserts that Kabul Bank had little reason to exist other than to allow a narrow clique tied to President Hamid Karzai’s government to siphon riches from depositors, who were the bank’s only substantial source of revenue. At one point, Kroll’s investigators found 114 rubber stamps for fake companies used to give forged documents a more legitimate look. And the auditing firms used by the bank never took issue with loan books that were “almost entirely fraudulent,” Kroll found, recommending that the Afghan government explore suing the last such auditor, A F Ferguson & Co., a private Pakistani firm with a franchise under PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Remember “planking,” “owling” and those other short lived Internet fads? Well there’s a new craze in town but this one’s a little more messy. It’s called “milking.” Milking is as simple as it sounds. The same way users would post photos of themselves in plank and owl positions, the new fad involved pouring milk over oneself in public places. And videotaping or photographing it, naturally.

Getty Images D.B. Sweeney Is there a 24 alum who hasn’t landed a spot on the upcoming second season of Fox’s Touch ? D.B. Sweeney , who played chief contractor Mark Bledsoe on the Kiefer Suthlerland starrer, has booked a recurring role on the sophomore drama from Tim Kring , The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The  Cutting Edge alum will play Tanner, a threatening, authoritative, forceful and fierce ex-military guy who’s an enforcer for Aster Corps on  Touch , becoming the latest 24 grad to appear on   the series. PHOTOS: Broadcast TV’s Returning Shows 2012-13 Sweeney joins fellow 24 stars Mykelti Williamson (Brian “Bluetooth” Hastings), Annie Wersching (Renee Walker) and John Boyd (Arlo Glass), among others, who have appeared on the series.

Thousands of people flowed into the streets of Cairo, the Egyptian capital, Tuesday afternoon for a day of protest against President Mohamed Morsi’s attempt to assert broad new powers for the duration of the country’s political transition, dismissing his efforts just the night before to reaffirm his deference to Egyptian law and courts. By early Tuesday afternoon in Cairo, a dense crowd of hundreds had gathered outside the headquarters of a trade group for lawyers, and thousands more had filed in around a small tent city in Tahrir Square. In an echo of chants against Mubarak, Egyptian’s ousted president almost two years ago, they shouted, “Leave, leave!” and “Bring down the regime!” They also denounced the spiritual leader of Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group allied with Morsi. Egyptian television had captured the growing polarization of the country Monday in split-screen coverage of two simultaneous funerals, each for a teenage boy killed in clashes set off by disputes over the new president’s powers.

Thousands of people flowed into the streets of Cairo, the Egyptian capital, Tuesday afternoon for a day of protest against President Mohamed Morsi’s attempt to assert broad new powers for the duration of the country’s political transition, dismissing his efforts just the night before to reaffirm his deference to Egyptian law and courts. By early Tuesday afternoon in Cairo, a dense crowd of hundreds had gathered outside the headquarters of a trade group for lawyers, and thousands more had filed in around a small tent city in Tahrir Square. In an echo of chants against Mubarak, Egyptian’s ousted president almost two years ago, they shouted, “Leave, leave!” and “Bring down the regime!” They also denounced the spiritual leader of Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group allied with Morsi. Egyptian television had captured the growing polarization of the country Monday in split-screen coverage of two simultaneous funerals, each for a teenage boy killed in clashes set off by disputes over the new president’s powers.

r Israeli Foreign Minister and opposition party leader Tzipi Livni announced on Tuesday that she will be returning to politics after resigning from the Knesset in May, as the leader of a new secular Zionist party HaTnua, or The Movement.  A poll by the Artuz Shtaim TV network revealed that this hypothetical new party could gain 10 Knesset seats in the January elections. Livni announced the party just two days after the head of the center-left Labor party tried to entice her to join them in a bid to topple current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party, Times of Israel reported .  “Do not split the center,” party leader Shelley Yachimovich wrote in a message on her Facebook page. “Join us, the largest party in the bloc, and together we’ll put an end to Netanyahu’s power,” “I call on Tzipi Livni to join me and the Labor party and avoid forming a new party that will take votes from the centrist parties which already exist,” Yachimovich told Israel National News. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also tried to entice Livni to run with him in a Knesset bid, but it is now unclear whether he will return to politics. Olmert is expected to make a formal announcement Wednesday or Thursday, Times of Israel said .

r Israeli Foreign Minister and opposition party leader Tzipi Livni announced on Tuesday that she will be returning to politics after resigning from the Knesset in May, as the leader of a new secular Zionist party HaTnua, or The Movement.  A poll by the Artuz Shtaim TV network revealed that this hypothetical new party could gain 10 Knesset seats in the January elections. Livni announced the party just two days after the head of the center-left Labor party tried to entice her to join them in a bid to topple current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party, Times of Israel reported .  “Do not split the center,” party leader Shelley Yachimovich wrote in a message on her Facebook page. “Join us, the largest party in the bloc, and together we’ll put an end to Netanyahu’s power,” “I call on Tzipi Livni to join me and the Labor party and avoid forming a new party that will take votes from the centrist parties which already exist,” Yachimovich told Israel National News. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also tried to entice Livni to run with him in a Knesset bid, but it is now unclear whether he will return to politics. Olmert is expected to make a formal announcement Wednesday or Thursday, Times of Israel said .