Faberge has returned with a new collection and they’re asking an ambitious $US7 million for a brooch. But how’s the luxury market doing more generally in the downturn? Poorly, says James Thomson.
Schadenfreude
Model down!
If a model fell on a runway and a photographer was there would anyone see her collapse? Oh yes. This is what schadenfreude looks like.
The apartment the Madoffs won’t see again
It’s bye-bye forever to the $35,000 Lavar Kerman Persian carpet and the $20,000 Chippendale-style tea table in their art-filled four-bedroom duplex on the upper East Side, says NY Daily News.
Brew a pot of tea and catch up with the MP expenses scandal
Britain’s MP expenses scandal has exposed a bipartisan culture of greed in the Parliament. Here’s how it all unravelled.
Guy Rundle: Black days for Gordon Brown
The one undoubted advantage of Gordon Brown going now quickly … is that none of us would have to watch him go slowly
Keith is punk’d!
What really happened.







