Over the past year and a half P. Chidambaram, India's finance minister, has been fighting his country's insatiable appetite for gold. The world has watched him plead, scold and lecture Indians – especially bankers – on the importance of not importing …

TEHRAN — He called himself the “economic basij,” a reference to Iran's hard-line paramilitary organization and defender of the Islamic Revolution. He drove a black Mercedes 500 SL and wore a $30,000 watch, as befits a man who put his self-worth at $13 …

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Investors have put $1.16 billion into Twitter since it was founded by Ev Williams and Biz Stone back in 2006. Go directly to our list of Twitter millionaires ». The company has also shelled out $640 million in cash and stock for acquisitions. With the …

Instead, Best found herself in relatively cramped quarters, seated around a table with doctors and health-care workers dressed in scrubs who took time out from what she could only surmise was a frenzied schedule to recount some of the ways in which the …

What disheartens them most is the affluent lifestyle of the owners of these orphanages in contrast to the deplorable living conditions of the children. According to one American volunteer who came to me after a bad experience with one of these …

The city's trump card was undoubtedly its most affluent parish, Mayfair: "Its inhabitants are virtually without exception the biggest shower of needy, self-important bumwipes in London, with a self-pity complex and misplaced sense of entitlement to …

The company started taking bookings of Model S recently. While Model S caters primarily to the affluent class in China, it is also expected to be popular among the environmentally conscious consumers. Tesla is also expanding in Europe with a new …

One of the show's organisers, Bill Kirkham, said he was expecting more than 160 cars to go on display tomorrow on Wesley College's Ward Oval in South Perth. "It's going to be well up on last year, and entries are coming thick and fast now … Among the …