Classical music, framed watercolors and vases overflowing with fresh flowers – welcome to New York’s poshest public toilets refitted with a $254,000 upgrade, where tips are banned and the facilities are free.Gutted and re-decorated before re-opening in late April, more than a million people a year are expected to frequent the spotless Beaux Arts premises …
Various models of Aston Martin will be available on order
Fibre-optics could leap-frog Africa into the future
Paris (AFP) — Fuelled by surging demand in China, luxury goods makers are bucking the global economic slowdown and reaping huge profits on sales of high-end handbags, expensive jewellery and posh perfumes. Results for the first-half of 2012 released this week showed major brands, including world leaders LVMH, PPR and Luxottica with rising profits driven …
