A week-long auction in New York of the late Elizabeth Taylor’s vast collection of luxury dresses, jewels and art works wound down Friday with total sales topping $153 million. The final round of live sales at Christie’s saw movie memorabilia snapped up at prices many times higher than pre-sale estimates.

Time magazine Wednesday named the collective “protester” around the world as its person of the year, citing the change brought by street demonstrations from Arab countries to New York.

In the ultimate accolade for the world’s mad scientists, spoof Nobel Prizes were awarded Thursday for studies into beetle sex, turtles yawning, the desperation of people dying to urinate and other daf

A fight by fancy French footwear king Christian Louboutin for the exclusive right to put red soles on shoes got kicked out of court on Wednesday in a victory for rival Yves Saint Laurent.