Berlin - Three top German art museums agreed Wednesday to lend their paintings to Dubai on the shores of the Gulf, where a citadel of high culture is planned using the emirate's vast oil wealth.

The deal was announced in Berlin by Michael Schindhelm, a German who is the cultural chief of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority.

The participating German museum administrations are the State Museums of Berlin, the State Art Collections of Dresden and the Bavarian State Painting Collections of Munich.

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Berlin  - Legislators in Saxony elected Stanislaw Tillich, 49, on Wednesday as premier of their German state, succeeding Georg Milbradt, 63, who said he was stepping down for the sake of an orderly