The force is strong with big spenders. Niue, a Pacific nation northeast of New Zealand has minted Star Wars coins adorned with images of classic characters from the trilogy including Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Darth Vader and Princess Leia.
At lunchtime on Tuesday, New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan were treated to an unusual sight -- a small plane buzzing by the Standard and Poor's building, towing a banner that read, "Thanks For The Downgrade: You Should All Be Fired."
Commissioned by St. Louis banker and single mother Lucy Nobbe, who paid $895 to hire the pilot, the fly-by was a reaction to the US losing its longtime AAA credit rating last Friday.
If you've ever wondered what Justin Bieber's head would look like if it were made of solid gold, this is your lucky day. At great cost and presumably over the course of many hours they will never get back, a team of 10 artists has produced one of the oddest sculptures you're ever likely to see -- a golden Bieber head.
In Pine Prairie, Louisiana, a thief attempted to rob an ATM on Monday by breaking it open with a piece of heavy construction equipment, 'The Early Show' reports -- and the incident was caught on the store's security camera.
Designer Stuart Hughes, who specializes in bringing bling to everything from beds to yachts to liquor bottles, is now offering a gold- and diamond-encrusted iPad 2 for the princely sum of $8.1 million called the Gold History Edition.
Yang Lianchun's Hong Kong apartment, for which she pays about $500 a month, is a mere 150 square feet -- barely enough space for one person and she shares it with her husband and two kids.
In the US we have a floating currency, which means two things: