内容摘要：Mr Irvine also said there was "work on science behind vaccines and bird flu" under way.

Mr Irvine also said there was "work on science behind vaccines and bird flu" under way.

In 2017, a Saudi princespent $450m (£350m) on the Salvator Mundi, which remains the world’s

. The portrait, reputed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, depicts Jesus Christ as master of heaven and Earth, the saviour of the world. For almost seven years, ever since the auction, it hasBernard Haykel, who speaks regularly to the crown prince and is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, says that despite rumours that it hangs in the prince's yacht or palace, the painting is actually in storage in Geneva and that MBS intends to hang it in a museum in the Saudi capital that has not yet been built.“I want to build a very large museum in Riyadh,” Haykel quotes MBS as saying. “And I want an anchor object that will attract people, just like the Mona Lisa does.”

Similarly, his plans for sport reflect someone who is both hugely ambitious and unafraid to disrupt the status quo.Saudi Arabia’s incredible spending spree on world-class sport – it is the

to host the FIFA World Cup in 2034, and has made multimillion-dollar investments in staging tournaments for

– has been called “sportswashing”. But what we found is a leader who cares less about what the West thinks of him than he does about demonstrating the opposite: that he will do whatever he wants in the name of making himself and Saudi Arabia great.The fire was reported at about 18:30 BST on Thursday and rapidly spread through a former aircraft hangar at the site.

Ten fire and rescue crews were called to tackle the blaze as witnesses reported seeing black smoke in the sky.The cause of the fire is not yet known.

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