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`Screaming Hot' TVs, $5 Toys Abound as Walmart, Kohl's Push for Shoppers Shoppers took advantage of Black Friday discounts to snap up televisions, laptop computers and robot hamsters at Best Buy Co., Target Corp. and Toys “R” Us Inc. stores from New Jersey to Texas.

Palm Pixi Price War Means Teen-Tech Gift Grab: Tech by Rich Jaroslovsky With the economy still struggling, this may not be the holiday season for that new $2,500 Apple MacBook Pro, or even that $200 Motorola Droid.

Gnawed Gnu, Doughty Dumbo, Blissful Vistas Reward Namibia Visitor: Travel Sitting comfortably in two open jeeps, my family, friends and I made our way to the lions.

Bentley’s $273,000 Speedster Drags on Biofuel: Jason H. Harper The elite are in trouble. Those exotic carmakers who produce fewer than 10,000 cars a year are looking at future fuel regulations and are realizing they need a plan. Fast.

Buick Cruises Into 21st Century With Handsome $34,000 LaCrosse While I’m sure I was once aware of the Buick brand, its cultural significance is now right up there with the cancellation of the TV series “Wings” and Barbra Streisand’s last concert tour.

Palm Pixi Price War Means Teen-Tech Gift Grab: Rich Jaroslovsky With the economy still struggling, this may not be the holiday season for that new $2,500 Apple MacBook Pro, or even that $200 Motorola Droid.

Nokia Netbook’s Beauty Proves Only Skin-Deep: Rich Jaroslovsky So near, yet so far.

Chef Mark Hix Breaks Leg After Accident on His Motor Scooter Mark Hix, the chef who owns two London restaurants and opens a third in Selfridges next year, is in the hospital after breaking his leg in a traffic accident.

Four Seasons Hong Kong Eateries Win 3 Michelin Stars (Update1) The Michelin Guide gave top honors to three restaurants in Hong Kong and Macau, all in hotels, in the sophomore review of the southern Chinese cities’ eateries.

Vranken Seeks to Add Champagne Cachet With Decades-Old Vintages Vranken Pommery Monopole SA, the world’s second-biggest maker of champagne, plans to add cachet to its inexpensive bubbly by selling decades-old vintages in luxury stores and restaurants.

Rhone Ranger’s Vinthology, Winemakers’ Profiles: Holiday Books I like to think that wine lovers are also book readers, at least to feed their oenophilia. So, for holiday gifts I can guarantee that the following books will make your drinking buddies very happy.

French Unions Threaten to Shut Paris Museums Over Job Cuts Unions representing French museum workers are threatening to extend and widen a strike that has kept Paris’s Pompidou Center of modern art shut all week.

Capitalists Exposed as Greedy, Vulgar on Paris Stage: Review The kind of capitalists who give capitalism a bad name are under scrutiny on Paris stages.