The most expensive house in the world is an 8.6 billion euro (over 12 billion dollars) residence, which has been built at the border of Switzerland and Italy. It said that 200 kg of precious metals were used during construction of the most expensive residence on the planet. The most expensive house in the world is located at the border of Switzerland and Italy The building was designed by…
Sep 7 2011 | Posted in
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six key categories that include grocery items, housing, utilities, transportation, health care and miscellaneous expenses. Housing was found to be the significant expense, accounting for an estimated 29% of a resident’s income. The Big Apple is known to be notoriously expensive, with eye-popping rents charged for just the tiniest square footage. The cost of living for a resident of Manhattan was…
wine and shallot infused mayonnaise in an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun. The $175 Richard Nouveau Burger, at the Wall Street Burger Shoppe in New York, is topped with real gold flakes, 25 grams of black truffles, a seared slab of foie gras and aged Gruyere. The $120 DB Royale Double Truffle Burger, on sale at New York’s B Bistro and the Daniel Boulud Brasserie in Las Vegas, i…
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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Guests at a London bar were hoping it wasn’t their round after a £5,500 ($8,600) cocktail was mixed by leading drinks expert Salvatore Calabrese. Salvatore Calabrese broke the record for the world’s most expensive cocktail with his “Salvatore’s Legacy” drink which was made up of ingredients more than 200 years old. Salvatore Calabrese, whose nickname is “The Maestro”, made the c…
Oct 16 2012 | Posted in
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part of Tita”. If it fetches its expected price, The Lock will become one of the five most expensive Old Masters ever sold at auction. The top price of £49.5 million ($79 million) was reached in 2002 by Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ painting The Massacre of the Innocents. A former Miss Spain, the Baroness is the fifth wife and widow of Swiss industrialist Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisz…
Jul 3 2012 | Posted in
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An advert for mascara by Christian Dior starring Natalie Portman has been banned for misleading women into thinking it would give them “lusher lashes”. The magazine advertisement, showing Natalie Portman staring into the camera with well defined eyelashes, was challenged by rivals L’Oreal who said the photo exaggerated the effects of the mascara. The ad boasts “the miracle of a nano brush f…
Oct 24 2012 | Posted in
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…h are in line with international standards”, Costa Crociere said in a statement. Francesco Schettino is suspected of manslaughter, but denies wrongdoing. At least five people have died but about 15 remain unaccounted for. Divers are trying to find more survivors. “It seems that the commander made errors of judgement that had serious consequences,” the statement by Costa Crociere…
…r have been granted. The raid led to the closure of Megaupload and seizure of the web domains it used. Judge Judith Potter said the court order should now be considered “null and void”. On 20 January, police in New Zealand swooped on the $32 million mansion in Auckland where Kim Dotcom lived with his family. The raid was carried out at the request of US authorities who accuse Kim Dotco…
Emperor, a Tibetan Mastiff, went on sale this week for a staggering 10 million Yuan ($1.6 million). With his thick double coat, Emperor was one of more than 1,000 Tibetan mastiffs from across China appearing at a two-day dog trade show in Shijiazhuang, capital of northern China’s Hebei Province, this week. The average price being asked for one of the dogs was around 1 million Yuan ($160,000…
Feb 19 2012 | Posted in
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Lady Gaga’s perfume first glimpse has been leaked by a Canadian fashion editor via Twitter. Lisa Tant, the editor in chief of Canadian fashion magazine Flare, tweeted an image of the bottle, set to hit stores in August, along with its much-anticipated name and scent notes. For over two years Lady Gaga, 26, has been publicly teasing her fans with small bites of information about the rumored…
Jun 13 2012 | Posted in
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A Photoshop alteration raised alarms over a pretty model in a burnt orange dress, who appeared to have had a run-in with a very heavy airbrush. The devilishly bad piece of retouching at Simply Be left the brunette with an apparently freakishly clawed left hand, complete with six fingers and right-angled gashes. Alongside the sharp digits, the unwitting model’s right hand was given a stumped…
…r corrections are dealt with between two and five days. Prof. Marcia DiStaso said: “It does not surprise me that so many Wikipedia entries contain factual errors. “What is surprising, however, is that 25% of survey respondents indicated they are not familiar with the Wikipedia articles for their company or clients. “At some point most, if not all, companies will determine they need to change somet…
After recently enlisted Brad Pitt as the first ever male face of Chanel to give the brand a sexy revamp, now the iconic perfume house takes things even further by unveiling a rare collectible fragrance. Chanel has announced that the bottle of perfume will be in “its rarest, most collectible form”. Named the Les Grands Extraits, the edition trumps the previous $2,150, 7.5-ounce version as the most…
May 13 2013 | Posted in
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…as Air Jordan’s, the new LeBron X’s will come complete with motion sensors to measure exactly how high the wearer jumps. The sneakers were unveiled by NBA superstar LeBron James during the 2012 gold medal basketball game between the United States and Spain at the London Olympics. However, Nike have said that they are not pushing up prices in an effort to squeeze consumers. “We are cons…
Facebook announces its decision to buy Instagram, one of the most popular photo-sharing smartphone app. Facebook is paying $1 billion in cash and stock for the takeover. Instagram was only launched in October 2010 – initially just for the iPhone before being offered as an Android app last week. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to continue to develop Instagram as a separate b…
Many household appliances come with confusing features that people do not want and which could be driving up prices, a new research has found. A consumer watchdog has found the duvet cycle on washing machine is one of the most pointless and expensive options on a household appliance. Gimmick-laden washing machines fare particularly badly in a survey of 10,500 adults carried out by consumer watchd…
…a model’s features, such as their shape or their skin tone. Each altered photograph was scored between one and five, with five representing a heavy retouching. Volunteers were each asked to score from 1 to 5 how similar each pair of pictures was. Prof. Hany Farid and his student, Eric Kee, found a close correlation between their computerized assessment and the human opinion, suggesting the techniq…
Physicists from CERN, Swiss, ran again the test that had proved the theory of relativity was wrong – and broke the speed of light for a second time. Scientists of the Large Hadron Collider sent another beam of subatomic particles over 450 miles to a laboratory in Gran Sasso in the Italian Alps. And after running the modified follow-up test 20 times, the scientists recorded exactly the same result…
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized to Turkey for “any errors that could have led to loss of life” during the 2010 commando raid on an aid flotilla that tried to breach the Gaza blockade. Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed with Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan to compensate the families of the nine activists who were killed. Israel’s prime minister had previously only expressed r…
540K was sold for $11.77 million, while a 1968 Ford GT40, sold for $11 million, set a new record as the most expensive American car ever sold at auction. On the third Sunday of each August (August 19, 2012) the most refined cars in the world are displayed on the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Around 200 of the most prized collector cars and motorcycles are presented on the be…
beauty to have her image digitally enhanced to give a false impression of the benefits of using popular beauty products. An advertisement for an Olay anti-aging product featuring Twiggy was banned in 2009. Last year L’Oreal advertisements featuring Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington were banned on the grounds they were misleading. MP Jo Swinson, who is co-founder of the Campaign for Body Confid…
…a Wang model appeared with normally proportioned waist in a back view It seems odd that David’s Bridal would include an inaccurate image of the asymmetrical design from the designer’s Fall 2011 collection. According to Vera Wang’s official website, the stockist is one of few who sell the White bridal collection so correct images of the gown should be readily available. Regardless, the…
Apr 11 2012 | Posted in
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…n asset. The trading loss, revealed in a regulatory filing, is expected to hurt JPMorgan’s overall earnings in the quarter, and will come as an embarrassment to the bank. It had emerged from the 2008 financial crisis in much better health than many of its rivals after avoiding risky investments that had hurt others. “We will admit it, we will learn from it, we will fix it, and we will…
ignal the end of the legal battle either for the prosecution or for Efrain Rios Montt as both sides will now start preparing to return to court to replay the final few weeks of the trial. An estimated 200,000 people were killed in Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war, the vast majority of them indigenous Mayans. Efrain Rios Montt’s 17 months in power are believed to have been one of the mos…
…increase the further away the probe moves. For the most distant spacecraft still in operation – NASA’s Voyager satellites, which are now approaching the very edge of the Solar System, some 18 billion km away – the errors associated with their positions are on the order of several hundred kilometers. Even for a probe at the reasonably short separation of Mars, the positioning unce…
