Premium smart phones, LED TVs, high-end electronic items and luxury goods could turn costlier with the government likely to hike customs duty on some 'non-essential' goods in a bid to curb imports, arrest dollar outflow and halt the sliding rupee …

… shortage of medicine in Iran. Bahmani, who is soon to quit his post, said the gangs had pressurised the Central Bank to allocate exchange at official rate for importing the luxury items, thereby misappropriating huge sums of money from Central Bank …

Ebony magazine Wednesday condemned the tea party based on a false rumor that the tea party is planning to boycott the black culture magazine over its cover featuring Trayvon Martin's family and other Martin supporters. “We have so many Tea Party …

Cuban youth seem the weak reed, as is happening elsewhere, now jumping ideological boundaries (e.g., China, becoming luxury-conscious), as though a cancerous growth supplanting—indeed, displacing—concern for the social welfare. … Or is the world …

Windows 7 had desktop gadgets which were perfect for this sort of thing. Android has widgets which do the same thing. … Edsel tried to bridge the Mercury/Lincoln range of expensive Ford to Luxury car. It was a joke. Even today Edsel is not as popular …

It's their first brush with gizmos, a luxury worth Rs 4,000 with which the Narotis forayed into the world of electronics at their first chance last month. Their young neighbour Sadhu Ichami too has bought one from the nearest town. On July 14 … “We …

When he tried to remove the gadgets, he couldn't. The titanium and bone had fused, … Even though running water is a luxury in Haiti, Smith promised to brush his teeth and clean under his acrylic gums with a special floss. "What do you see in the …

Economists generally consider the middle class to be people with the financial resources to make discretionary and small luxury purchases — from an automobile to concert tickets. By that broad brush, about 2 billion worldwide qualify, said Jack …

Mo Farah has revealed that the painful memory of losing out on gold two years ago in Daegu was the driving force behind his victory in the 10,000 metres at the World Championships in Moscow. Farah and Ibrahim Jeilan went head-to-head on the final lap, …