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Alain Robert and Jeb Corliss are two men who've never met, yet they share many of the same experiences. They're both risk takers driven by their fears.
Building climber Alain Robert hangs from ceiling at home to stay in super shape.
One scales steel and glass towers, while the other soars through the air.
Corliss, 3... | '20/20' looks at the fascinating exploits of "Birdman" and the "French Spiderman," aka Jeb Corliss and Alain Robert, who talk about what drives them to push the extremes of experience. |
There are two traditional views of how Americans can be happiest in retirement. In one, they retrofit their homes with grab bars and wheelchair-accessible bathrooms and "age in place" while maintaining long-time community, church and family ties. In the other, they say farewell to friends and frigid winters and head of... | Research contradicts idea that seniors need to cling to their homes. |
Making money in the stock market hasn't been this tough since the fall of 2008. Bear in mind that in the short-term the bears may very well be in control. Stock markets are succumbing to the deflationary, and very negative conditions in many European nations that have been driven by very real necessity to cut budget de... | Market gurus look to gold and commodities as places to put money. Some are shorting European banks, too. |
By MARISA GUTHRIE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, November 29th 2004, 1:51AM
It's that time of year - lots of shopping, cooking and wrapping to keep us busy.
And it's a busy season on television as well.
But none of it requires spending wads of money, lifting a finger (just a thumb on the remote) or leaving the coz... | TV IS BLITZEN US WITH SPECIAL Rudy, Scrooge & jolly young Nick HOLIDAY VIEWING GUIDE LONG REIGN: "Rudolph"marks its 40th year on CBS. SNOW BIZ: "Robbie the Reindeer"is all revved up and ready to go. JOLLY ROCKERS: The Wiggles & St. Nick YULETIDE CLASSIC: Jean Shepherd's "A Christmas Story"HE'LL SLEIGH YA! Comic George ... |
Bank of America Corp., the nation's largest bank, unveiled plans yesterday to cut 30,000 jobs worldwide in the next few years, as part of an aggressive effort to streamline its far-flung operations and cope with billions of dollars in losses from toxic mortgages and the continuing weak economy.
The cuts will probably ... | The nation’s largest bank has grown tremendously in recent years with major acquisitions, while also suffering through a perilous economy and steep losses from the mortgage crisis. |
LOS ANGELES – While news of Jesse James’s alleged affair only hit headlines last week (thanks to mistress Michelle “Bombshell” McGee selling her story), Sandra Bullock may have been “blindsided” by her husband prior to accepting her Oscar for Best Actress.
Bullock barely even acknowledged, let alone touched, a teary J... | Did Sandra Bullock Already Know About Jesse James' Affair at Oscars? |
Oppenheimer initiated coverage on shares of Fifth Third Bancorp with an outperform rating as credit trends look to favor the bank over the coming quarters. With the outperform rating, Oppenheimer set a price target of $16 per share.
Shares of FITB were higher, picking up almost 2% so far.
Canaccord Adams increased it... | Oppenheimer rates bank outperform,, Canaccord boosts EPS estimate on iPad strength. |
LOS ANGELES – Mariah Carey may be relishing in the rave reviews and Oscar buzz surrounding her new drama “Precious”, however her 2001 film disaster “Glitter” still brings some painful memories to the surface.
The film (and Carey’s performance on screen and on the soundtrack) was slammed by almost all critics and label... | Precious star also says she was 'humiliated' by appearance in the film, despite rave reviews. |
What can you say about a 16-year-old with an irrepressible smile and two Olympic gold medals to her name -- including the coveted women's gymnastics all-around? When it's Virginia Beach native Gabby Douglas, you can say: Go, Flying Squirrel! After the first-place finish of the girls’ team, Douglas took personal gold by... | By Nina Hammerling Smith
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The whole world is watching. And although the 2012 Summer Games in London haven't been without their share of con... |
Between 1907 and 1938, the Detroit Electric Car Company (formerly the Anderson Carriage Company) produced some 13,000 examples of its electric car – a tall, finely appointed carriage powered by a trunk full of lead-acid batteries. The car promised 80 miles of zero-emissions cruising on a full charge, with a top speed o... | Seventy-four years after its demise, Detroit Electric is charged for a comeback with a Lotus Elise-based 100% electric sports car. |
Redefining space: The Nation Room – Embassy of No Land by Paulo Moreira and Kiluanji Kia Henda, part of The Real and Other Fictions exhibition.
I'm standing in the shadow of an equestrian statue in a Lisbon square, as part of a small crowd, listening to eager young architects explain their projects through megaphones.... | A series of sceptical exhibitions in Lisbon questions the purpose of architecture, writes Rowan Moore |
FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2013, file photo, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith stands on the sideline during an NFL preseason football game against the Minnesota Vikings in San Francisco. Smith has been charged with three felony counts of illegal possession of an assault weapon, stemming from a party at his home ... | LONDON - Aldon Smith's stay in a treatment facility to address a substance-abuse problem will factor into any discipline the 49ers' outside linebacker may face from the NFL, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Saturday. After his second DUI arrest Sept. 20, Smith became subject to discipline from the league under its pers... |
When Modern Art Oxford announced that it was planning a major show of Stella Vine there were quite a few shudders in the art world and I heard someone mutter 'they'll be doing Jack Vettriano next.' Is Stella Vine really that bad? From 17 July we'll be able to judge for ourselves. the gallery is mounting by far her bigg... | Vilified by critics but pursued by art dealers including Charles Saatchi, this ex-stripper lives anonymously but never escapes controversy. On the eve of her first major show, Stella Vine tells how her sudden fame was followed by cocaine addiction and therapy. By Lynn Barber. |
Reporter: The search is on, with new solid leads coming in from the oil fields of the west. It could be. I could be paul. Reporter: To southern california. I might be paul fronczak. Reporter: To a...
Reporter: The search is on, with new solid leads coming in from the oil fields of the west. It could be. I could be pau... | Act 5: Agents hope new tips will pour in after ABC News report. |
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"I am just in awe that the bed-in is getting attention again. We did it in 1969 for a week in Amsterdam and a week in Montreal. We loved doing it and thought somebody will give us applause for creating original theatre to appeal to the world about the importance of w... | In 1969, Ono and John Lennon took to their bed to campaign in support of world peace. Here, she recalls the experience |
Friend and Barber continued to work in London for two years to finance the renovations, which cost about 400,000 euro ($555,720) for new plumbing, additional bathrooms, rewiring electricity and adding an outdoor pool. La Villa de Mazamet opened for business in 2009 in Mazamet, a town in southwestern France.
Owning a b... | If youâve always wanted to move to the country or an historic town to open a guesthouse, hereâs how to make it happen. |
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NPR announced Tuesday that come August 1, the public broadcaster will eliminate 28 jobs and end its weekday show Tell Me More due to budget cuts.
An NPR spokesperson told Poynter in an email that eight of the eliminated positions are not currently filled. Tell Me More host Michel Martin and executive producer Carline ... | The radio network, which has hundreds of member stations across the U.S., announced the cuts as part of a larger effort to cut costs by $7 million this year |
Graduation season is upon us, which means hordes of famous (and, to the disappointment of many graduates, not-so-famous) people will trudge across auditoriums and football stadiums around the country to deliver speeches full of vaguely uplifting platitudes. Of course, plenty of these speeches will actually be quite goo... | Perhaps the only graduation speech you really need to hear |
Reporter: After spending nearly half a year living away from her own family, Bridget is finally back, and so is that trademark smile she's so often flashed as a little girl. So now, I can touch my...
Reporter: After spending nearly half a year living away from her own family, Bridget is finally back, and so is that tr... | Act 5: While she has finally returned home, Bridget still struggles to face her fears. |
06/10/2014 at 11:35 AM EDT
People write inscriptions onto a panel on the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris
The thousands of locks that cling like barnacles to the Pont des Arts in Paris have become a symbol of danger, rather than love, after a chunk of fencing fell off under their weight.
The fencing tumbled late Sunday... | Not everything can handle the powerful weight of romance |
07/02/2014 at 09:20 AM EDT
Camille Grammer and Adrienne Maloof
head back to the 90210?
reports that the former reality stars are set to return to
next season, shooting some scenes with the show's leading ladies: Kyle Richards, Kim Richards,
, Yolanda Foster and Brandi Glanville.
Fans, however, shouldn't place the... | Reports are swirling that the original costars are slated to appear on the show's fifth season |
July 21, 2014: A second video that possible shows a missile launcher heading into Russia has emerged, with the Ukrainian government claiming it could be the weapon that shot down MH17.
Malaysian flight MH17 may have been shot down by "mistake" by ill-trained pro-Russian separatists, US intelligence officials say, dism... | A White House spokesman has confirmed the US will release more information on the downing of flight MH17. |
The Great Hall at Target’s Minneapolis headquarters was bustling this morning. Usually a low-key place where employees sip coffee, hold relaxed meetings and take a few minutes of R&R, this morning there was a line about 200 people long, according to Dustee Jenkins, Target’s vice-president for public relations. They wer... | Brian Cornell wowed his new troops with handshakes and selfies this morning. But the challenge facing the well-regarded former Pepsi executive is substantial. |
FORTUNE — Coffee table books typically dominate the publishing world at this time of year, and 2012 is no exception. Hundreds of new titles have appeared in recent weeks, all vying for your gift shopping dollars. From this vast selection I chose five very different but equally sumptuous volumes.
First up: Howard Schat... | New, beautifully illustrated doorstoppers on boxing, glaciers, antique postcards, modern India, and New York City. |
Nobody messes with Mother Nature – and even if they tried, they wouldn’t be able to make her change. Just like your own mother, once Mother Nature has decided what she’s doing, she’s doing it, and there’s no stopping her. You want to go to the beach today? If she’s not having a good day, you’re not having a good day.
... | The weather outside is hard to predict; it may be sunny, rainy, snowy, stormy, or mild from one day to the next, or it might be any number of these all in one day. Eventually you just learn to deal... |
We already know that Sam Heughan is a breakout star on
to learn – and love! – about the Scottish heartthrob who plays the dashing Jamie Fraser.
Here are five things to know:
Heughan, 34, grew up in converted stables on the grounds of a castle in New Galloway, Scotland.
Since the books describe Jamie as a ginger, He... | The hunky actor, who plays Jamie Fraser, auditioned seven times for Game of Thrones |
The long gallery was the special contribution of Elizabethan and Jacobean society to architecture that deals with the passing of time: it was a place for walking in bad weather, for contemplating and showing off art and ancestral portraits and, therefore, combined the rhythms of exercise, meteorology and genealogy. A s... | Rowan Moore, introduces a spectacular interactive 360-degree panoramic view of this classic example of the Jacobean long gallery |
FORTUNE — Fall holds different meanings for different people, but for many technorati, this September will likely see the unveiling of another all-new iPhone. Indeed, next month’s news may prove more newsworthy than years past if some of the speculation is right. Will Apple AAPL finally introduce a new, cheaper iPhone?... | A highly anticipated fall announcement from Apple could bring some of the long-awaited upgrades that fans and investors have been calling for. |
Peter Mandelson must have loved the smell of Millbank on the morning of May 2 1997. A heady mix of diesel fumes, brake dust and the breeze along the Thames, maybe, but to the new government's chief spin doctor, it would have smelt like... victory. The Labour party - New Labour - had been returned to power, after 18 col... | As the Labour party moves out of Millbank, Jonathan Glancey assesses the building that defined an era. |
Will the prize go out with a bang, or will the lights flicker on once more as another deal comes forward? And will yet another quartet of artists set themselves up, or will they run and hide, joining the throng of contenders who turn down the chance to be parodied, mocked and misrepresented? The Turner Prize is a big d... | Keith Tyson has won the Turner Prize . My first reaction is to feel relief that we can now drop the whole thing until next year, when Channel 4's sponsorship deal comes to an end |
Is it any wonder actresses are neurotic about their appearance? If anyone ever doubted the sexist scrutiny they are up against, Michael Parkinson's 1975 interview with Helen Mirren (a YouTube sensation) is a sobering reminder. "Critics spend as much time discussing her physical attributes as assessing her acting abilit... | An obsession with the looks and love lives of actresses is nothing new, as an exhibition of portraits of the first women on the stage makes clear |
A lexicon of passing clouds, veiled suns and reflections on water. Early-1960s newspaper photos of murdered student nurses, which once ended up in a Gerhard Richter painting. A family snap of Uncle Rudi, proud in his army uniform; crinkle-edged postcards and pictures from other people's family albums. Mountains and aer... | Gerhard Richter has spent 40 years amassing photographs that shock, chill and amuse. Adrian Searle sees a remarkable collection. |
Jason Landau and Cheyenne Jackson
09/15/2014 AT 05:05 PM EDT
Talk about a night to remember.
is still on Cloud 9 after
with boyfriend Jason Landau on Saturday evening.
"There was so much love coming at us," Jackson, 39, tells PEOPLE. "We're both just love hungover."
Set atop the converted tennis court of a friend... | The Glee actor says he's still "love hungover" from his big night |
FORTUNE — Most everyone believes that America will become recessionary if we fall off the fiscal cliff in 28 days. What has gotten less attention, however, is what might happen were Washington to actually get its act together.
I’m not talking about how taxes might rise for some and not for others, or how particular pr... | Fixing the fiscal cliff isn't just about avoiding disaster. |
The number of deaths due to General Motors’ faulty ignition switches has risen to 21 as compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg starts providing weekly updates of the compensation claims he thinks are legitimate.
After last week’s initial report of 19 deaths from the GM Ignition Compensation protocol, headed by Feinberg,... | We'll be getting weekly updates on the ignition switch compensation protocol now. |
FORTUNE — Disaster and misbehavior have dominated recent headlines about big banks. Whether it’s multibillion-dollar trading losses (J.P. Morgan Chase), a settlement for rigging interest rates (Barclays), a Senate report asserting money laundering for drug cartels (HSBC), or assorted bad press for Standard Chartered, C... | If you look beyond recent mishaps and scandals, there are values to be found in financial shares. |
09/29/2014 AT 01:45 PM EDT
Moody teens in a haunting, dystopian future? Sounds like a case for a
, who has been tapped to curate the soundtrack for
, just released the film's title track, "Yellow Flicker Beat," which she also wrote and recorded.
Of the foreboding (yet, at the same time, strangely catchy) tune, Lord... | The teen queen not only wrote the film's theme song, but is also curating the entire soundtrack |
FORTUNE — Both smartphones were highly anticipated and well-reviewed. Both were made available for online orders and quickly sold out.
But one — Apple’s AAPL iPhone 5 — overcame some initial production hiccups and as of Thursday, according to Piper Jaffrey’s Gene Munster, had “finally reached a point where consumers c... | One hot new smartphone is now "readily available" for Christmas. The other ain't. |
What we know: Not a whole lot. According to a report this week from The Wall Street Journal, the group in charge of Intel’s INTC TV strategy, dubbed Intel Media, is run by Erik Huggers, a corporate VP who once worked for the BBC and Microsoft MSFT . A set-top box may be in the works touting speech and face recognition,... | Both tech giants are rumored to be developing television products for this year or next. Here's how they (might) stack up. |
If you’re reading Fortune, you’re aware of Mark Zuckerberg. You likely know Jack Dorsey and Marissa Mayer. You might know Kevin Systrom, and Ben Silbermann. But what about Andriy Kobolyev, or Tristan Walker, or Julie Smolyansky? The names Liv Garfield, Kevin Chou, and Raj Chetty might not ring a bell. Or do they? How w... | Take our quiz to test your knowledge |
FORTUNE–“Our mission is simple: to make all athletes better,” says Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank. “Our vision is even simpler: to empower athletes everywhere.”
Have you noticed that the best businesses are typically built on easy-to-understand foundations? That is, one big idea.
That was the message that P... | Kevin Plank took on Nike and built Under Armour into a $2.3 billion company. The hypercompetitive CEO says he learned three major lessons along the way. |
10/29/2014 AT 09:20 AM EDT
Like many other denizens of the
The star was visiting Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday's
to discuss his new film,
, when Fallon brought up
"I think I was the first kid in my class to learn all the words to [Eminem's] 'Real Slim Shady,' " Radcliffe told Fallon.
Radcliffe went on to say that memor... | Radcliffe performs Blackalicious's 'Alphabet Aerobics' flawlessly |
There’s a disconnect, it seems, in a lot of young American families. Just who is going to take care of the kids?
According to a recent study by the Harvard Business Review, 66% of millennial men expect their partner to take the primary responsibility for raising children. On the other hand, only 42% of millennial wome... | Most Boomer and Gen X women wanted to prioritize work, but ended up focused on child-rearing. Can millennials avoid the same trap? |
He was a teenage actor who trekked the African desert with Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. He was a three-time Olympian, in two different sports. He graduated Harvard University and then earned a Harvard MBA. He is a vice-chairman of investment banking at Citigroup, where he chairs Citi Private Bank in the EMEA (E... | The most interesting man behind a powerful woman may not be Bill Clinton, after all. |
12/19/2014 AT 06:00 PM EST
Bob Bashara's once-respectable reputation crumbled for good Thursday when a jury found the former Michigan businessman with a string of S&M mistresses guilty of murdering his wife.
Jane Bashara's beaten and strangled body was discovered on Jan. 25, 2012, slumped over in her Mercedes SUV in ... | Testimony revealed S&M relationships and ties to a hit-man killer he also tried to have killed |
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By Kate Parham Kordsmeier, Travel + Leisure
Twenty-two million turkeys appear on Christmas tables every year, washed down by 122 pounds of eggnog and made possible by umpteen hours in the kitchen. No... | Cheers to these restaurants that work overtime to deck the halls and concoct special Christmastime menus. |
This post is in partnership with Entrepreneur. The article below was originally published at Entrepreneur.com.
Here we are at the beginning of a New Year. The revelry of the holidays is behind us, and it’s time to get serious and get back to work. But before we get too deep into goals, strategies, tactics and financia... | Turn these once-a-year activities into monthly habits and watch your business grow. |
Despite some tumultuous twists and turns, the U.S. stock market made big gains in 2014. But the new year has got off to a rough start with a market-wide sell-off.
In 2014, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 7.5% as it crossed both the 17,000-point and 18,000-point marks for the first time ever. The S&P 500 posted... | From steadily declining oil prices to possible interest rate hikes, the market faces a number of headwinds. |
Equality is a worthy goal—but its tough to achieve when unconscious bias so pervades the American workplace.
Certainly women have made inroads in corporate America, but a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday points at why women struggle to climb to the corporate world’s highest ranks—and often tone down their... | Roche Diagnostics and Royal Bank of Canada have launched internal initiatives in hopes of increasing workforce diversity. |
It should have been the greatest time of their lives.
Last April, the all-girl band
was just gaining buzz, heating up the charts with "Ugly Heart" and singing the chorus to Pitbull's popular radio jam, "Wild Wild Love." The five singers were huge in Australia and performed on the
And then, the unthinkable happened. ... | Members of the girl group open up about how they've been coping and how they vow to honor Battle's memory |
FORTUNE — If you’ve ever been frustrated, annoyed, or otherwise perturbed by annual performance reviews — whether giving them, getting them, or both — here’s something that may surprise you: Not even the HR people in charge of overseeing yearly appraisals really think they’re worth doing.
At least, that is one finding... | Ninety-eight percent of human resources executives say yearly evaluations aren't useful, according to a recent survey. So why are companies still doing them? |
02/02/2015 AT 09:35 AM EST
's NASCAR ad that ran during the Super Bowl, decrying it as offensive to people living with celiac disease.
The ad plays on Offermnan's uber-masculine image, and features the following line in its "America's gone soft"-themed narration: "When our idea of danger is eating gluten, there's tro... | The signees claim that the ad is offensive to people with gluten allergies |
As of next year, Costco Wholesale shoppers will be safe to leave home without their American Express cards.
AmEx AXP shares dropped to their lowest levels since mid-October on Thursday after the credit card company announced that its exclusivity deal with wholesale club retailer Costco is set to expire at the end of M... | AmEx's stock decline erased more than $5 billion from its market value Thursday. |
The Boston Redevelopment Authorityis hosting a public meeting at which the Fisher College Task Force can present its Institutional Master Plan. The meeting was rescheduled from Feb. 10 because of snow. Monday, 6 to 8 p.m., Alumni Hall, Fisher College, 116 Beacon St., Boston.
New England Restaurant Networking is puttin... | Breakfast tech, leadership skills, and other notable events and things to know. |
Police are searching for suspected gunman Jody Lee Hunt
12/02/2014 AT 09:10 AM EST
After allegedly fatally shooting four people, setting off an hourslong manhunt and putting schools and residents on alert for an armed man, the owner of a small towing business was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound... | Cops say Jody Lee Hunt fatally shot four people and set off a manhunt Monday |
“We now know beyond any reasonable doubt that much of what we were taught about how to succeed in life is goofy, wrong-headed, or just plain false,” writes Mark Jaffe about halfway through Let Me Give It to You Straight.
By his lights, feeling overwhelmed by the pace of change these days is normal. “If every single mo... | Not every business advice book has a diagram on the cover showing how to tie a noose, but this one does. |
04/07/2015 AT 01:40 PM EDT
You know those dreams you have where you're falling, and you wake up right before you hit the ground? Have you ever wanted to have that experience drawn out over the course of three minutes and filmed as a viral video?
in a forest in Gringelstad, Sweden, and decided to look at the device's ... | The camera fell off a skydiver shortly after the diver exited the plane |
Two food manufacturers have recalled tens of thousands of cases of their products from stores nationwide after finding evidence of the potentially deadly bacterium listeria, in an outbreak that has already resulted in at least eight illnesses and three deaths.
Sabra Dipping Company was the latest food manufacturer to ... | Blue Bell and Sabra are two of the latest food manufacturers to recall their products due to listeria contamination; efforts to prevent such outbreaks are severely underfunded. |
The nautical theme has been reduced to a corny joke in British seaside architecture, but there's a dignified restraint to it here. The modernist tides of 1930s Europe washed this elegant culture palace up on our shores thanks to an enlightened patron (Earl De La Warr, mayor of Bexhill) and two émigré architects (German... | Modernism produced perhaps the biggest variety of styles in history, from concrete wigwams and penguin pools to streets in the sky, says Steve Rose |
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The airline business is complicated. To some extent, however, making a profit is as simple as getting as many passengers on board your company’s airplanes as possible, and charging each customer as much as possible for the... | No one should be remotely surprised that flights today are more crowded and more expensive, with more fees and worse service. As many critics warned, this is exactly what would happen with widespread airline consolidation. |
New York-based interview coach Pamela Skillings has seen her fair share of interview-phobics over the years. Recently, she had a bright and accomplished client who dreaded interviews so much that he stayed in a job he disliked for a year too long. As a child, he had a stutter but had learned over time how to control it... | Take a deep breath and tackle your terror of interviews with this plan. |
“When the judge takes his seat, / whatever is hidden shall be made manifest, / nothing shall remain unavenged.” Those words, from the “Liber scriptus” of the Catholic Mass for the dead, might have been uppermost in the minds of the detainees at the Nazis’ Terezín concentration camp who, between October 1943 and June 19... | ‘Defiant Requiem,’ presented at Symphony Hall on Monday, interspersed archival images and narrative among movements of Verdi’s Requiem to recount the story of Terezín performances. |
From left: Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell on American Idol's third season
05/12/2015 AT 12:55 PM EDT
At its peak, the reality juggernaut
seemed like a perfectly scripted high drama occasionally soundtracked with Bee Gees songs. At its lows, it was also that, but with worse singing.
the chills-inducing ... | We all know about William Hung, but does anyone remember Tashawn Moore? |
There’s a change coming for those Netflix customers who stream their favorite flicks on the web.
The Netflix NFLX website is undergoing a design upgrade this June, TechCrunch reports. The change will bring its interface more in line with what you see when you use the service on a mobile device or gaming console. (It s... | Get ready for a new Netflix |
The shape is right there in the middle of the invitation to this year’s much-sought-after* World Wide Developer’s Conference: A black square with rounded corners.
See it? That’s Apple TV, which took the form of a black cube five years ago and hasn’t changed since.
Apple TV’s function hasn’t changed either: It’s a set... | Apple's biggest event of the year is more than two weeks away, but it's not too early to see the shape of things to come. |
The New York Times called 2015 the Year of the Condo, noting so many new buildings of condos under construction that there are fears of a glut. Bloomberg recently noted a rise in rentals above $50,000–the number tripled since 2008. One thing is clear: there is no shortage of domestic developments aiming for the one per... | As the high-end residential market booms, developers are competing with amazing, resort-like amenities. |
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Hasbro HAS is taking a page out of the Willy Wonka marketing playbook. In honor of Monopoly’s 80th anniversary, French players of the eminent board game will have a chance to win actual cash hidden in sets of... | For its 80th anniversary, 80 winners will find real cash when they buy the board game in France. |
The scene outside the Shi'ite al-Anoud mosque
05/31/2015 AT 11:15 AM EDT
Abduljalil Alarbash, an honors student at a Kansas university, is being called a "hero" after he and relatives prevented a suicide bomber Friday from entering a mosque full of people in Dammam, Saudi Arabia,
However, Alarbash wasn't spared from... | His family and friends say he helped stop a suicide bomber from entering the mosque before detonating |
The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question “How do you keep your best employees?” is by Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Zillow Group.
My most important job... | Create a company culture that rewards innovation, rather than success. |
I grew up on the west side of Sheffield, close to Broomhill, a place which, in 1961, John Betjeman celebrated as "the prettiest suburb in England". Is it pretty? Handsome would be a better word, though I only think so now. At the time, I neither loved it nor hated it; those streets, wide and quiet, were simply a backdr... | We love to hate the suburbs but for Paul Barker they are places of humanity where individuality flourishes. By Rachel Cooke |
By Emily Strohm and Jodi Guglielmi
06/19/2015 AT 10:30 AM EDT
As soon as Jazz Jennings was able to talk, she was telling her parents something just didn't feel right. Jennings – who was designated male at birth – says she always knew she was meant to be a female. At the age of 5, she became one of the youngest people... | The teen stresses the importance of self-acceptance to other transgender youths |
06/24/2015 AT 02:00 PM EDT
has cemented a reputation on
for creating drama, but she says there are no hard feelings when it comes to her exit from the series.
Glanville, 42, broke her silence Wednesday on her podcast,
"After a lot of careful thought and deliberation, I have decided not to return to
," she said. "T... | The reality star compared Bravo to the Mafia |
FORTUNE — Google’s executives have long dreamed of solving one of the technology industry’s biggest riddles. How do you predict what people want — hockey scores or new Ugg boots, for example — before they even ask for it? Reading user’s minds, or at least seeming to, would make Google’s products that much faster and mo... | Its acquisition of DeepMind Technologies holds promise for its advertising, autonomous vehicle, and "smart home" businesses. |
Lucy Hale and Anthony Kalabretta in Maui, Hawaii
07/03/2015 AT 11:10 AM EDT
is making waves with another man.
The actress, 26, and boyfriend Anthony Kalabretta were all smiles as they enjoyed some fun in the sun in Maui on Thursday. The new couple was spotted showing some sweet PDA in the tropical destination, where... | The Pretty Little Liars star and her boyfriend are on vacation in Maui |
Members of the The Trans-Universal Zombie Church of the Blissful Ringing take part in a street march. (Supplied)
"In the name of the Bell, the Pan and the Holy Pot..." Slovenia's newest religion may have the strangest of scriptures, but in a country plagued by corruption scandals, its anti-graft gospel has gained a hu... | Facing economic woes and corruption, Slovenians have flocked to religion - but it is the Zombie Church which has become country's the fastest growing church. |
William Leyser, 74, a retired machinist from Las Vegas, thinks the stock market may fall by as much as 10 percent next year. He has taken some of his money out of stocks this year and put it into bonds.
"I'm concerned there is going to be a big correction here," says Leyser, who invests in mutual funds. "When it gets ... | Americans aren't expecting another bang-up year for the stock market, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. |
French-Canadian pilot Raphael Langumier has revealed the moments he took his daughter Léa for some aircraft gymnastics and micro-gravity in the clouds.
Nonplussed at first as she sits strapped in behind her dad, the young girl begins squealing and laughing uncontrollably when her dad guides the aircraft through the sk... | Is this guy the world’s coolest dad? His four-year-old daughter probably thinks so after getting to experience mid-air acrobatics and even micro gravity during a recent flight. |
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He's a father and grandfather with another child on the way.
still needs a bit practice when it comes to reading a nice bedtime story.
On Thursday, the rapper, 57, appeared on Jimmy Fallon and revealed a hidden talent for adding rather inappropriate voice overs to children's cartoons.
In ... | The Law & Order: SVU actor shared one of his hidden talents |
The price gap at the high end between Singapore and Hong Kong high-end property has widened, possibly to as high as 80 percent as the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the U.S. dollar, while the Singapore dollar has weakened, he noted. A Singapore apartment goes for around $15,251 per square meter, compared with around $22... | Singapore's property shares, already hit by expectations of rising rates, took a beating after China devalued its currency and more pain may be ahead. |
"This is starting to become a bad omen. This is not good. There's enough leverage out there in different forms, where if this is the end of the 'easy money, low long-term rates' story and the Fed is not going to be able to hike, the long-term interest rates market is going to do the tightening for the Fed, and this wil... | Treasury yields ripped higher Monday, putting pressure on stocks and signaling a possible sea change in the global rate environment. |
FORTUNE – If the U.S. Federal Reserve’s remarks earlier this week seemed at all vague, today’s jobs report should give us a clearer picture of what the central bank might do next to boost the economy.
U.S. businesses added 165,000 jobs in April. Stocks soared and Wall Street cheered, as the figure came in better than ... | It was a stronger-than-expected jobs report, but we're still a long way from the Federal Reserve's key target of 6.5% or lower. |
It would also choke off the U.K's export recovery, he added, and the cost of borrowing for businesses will go up, he said, meaning they might be more reluctant to borrow and spend on more expansion and investment projects.
Businesses might be voicing concerns about this continued move higher for the pound but in the c... | The BoE left interest rates and its asset purchase target unchanged amid concerns that a strong sterling is choking off an economic recovery. |
Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab, said he has been expecting a selloff for the past several weeks, but he is not negative on the market and still expects to see the S&P end the year at 1,900.
"I do think this correction would be a healthy thing. There was some tech... | Even if the market manages to bounce Friday, "I would be careful here," one technical analyst says. |
Interestingly, there were 176 data breaches among retailers, accounting for just 11 percent of the total number of incidents. Yet this accounted for 55 percent of the total number of records stolen in 2014, highlighting the vulnerability of retailers in particular.
Experts said this could be because users often have o... | Over a billion personal data records were compromised by cyberattacks in 2014, a report revealed, driven by high-profile breaches. |
On the data front, the latest gross domestic product (GDP) data from Spain confirmed that the country grew 2 percent year-on-year in the last quarter. In the U.K., year-on-year GDP was confirmed at 2.7 percent and the German unemployment rate also stayed at a record low in February.
In Asia, Japanese shares outperform... | European equities rallied on Thursday, closing nearly 1 percent higher as investors reacted to a raft of corporate earnings and fresh economic data. |
As stocks sold off quickly on Tuesday, Cramer was left wondering; does the decline in the averages indicate that investors should be more cautious?
"I'm not necessarily saying that we're complacent here, and I'm certainly not saying that we've been riding a wave of irrational exuberance, because the tremendous rally i... | “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer spots one company getting the best of this bad story. |
It's one of many pieces of "memorabilia" being auctioned off by the former mayor, including a pair of pyjama pants which, according to the post, Ford wore "on a shopping trip to Wal-Mart." The pants sold for C$600.
Read MoreEx-Toronto Mayor Rob Ford turns to eBay with crack kitsch
Ford rose to international notoriety... | A necktie worn by disgraced former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford when he confessed to smoking crack has fetched $13,000 on eBay. |
And an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), one of the most-respected economic think-tanks in the U.K., has warned that the increasing pressure on banks may discourage investment.
"At some point, the environment becomes so unfavourable that everyone shifts wholesale to somewhere else," Stuart Adam, sen... | Within days of the announcement of raised charges on banks in the U.K., talk of at least one London-based bank relocating elsewhere has emerged. |
"We've built outdoor Wi-Fi-access routers specifically keeping in mind Indian environmental conditions," Dinesh Malkani, Cisco's India country head, said in an interview.
"You cannot predict what challenges you are going to come up against."
Bringing some order to India's chaotic cities with technology is a daunting ... | As India launches an $18B plan to spread the information revolution to its provinces, it faces power cuts, badly planned, congestion and monkeys. |
Goldman Sachs agrees: "Core CPI is expected to turn negative on a weak trend even ignoring cheap oil," it said in a note.
"For some time, now our inflation outlook has called for the core CPI to slow moderately after peaking on a year-on-year basis in April 2014. Today's February core national CPI data are broadly in ... | Japan's consumer inflation eased in February for a seventh straight month increasing expectations that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will have to undertake further stimulus measures to achieve its price target. |
Unusually low bullish and unusually high neutral sentiment levels coincide with better-than-average market performance in ensuing six- and 12-month periods, according to Charles Rotblutt, editor of the AAII Journal and vice president of the organization.
Investors face three challenges in the current landscape: A weak... | Professional investors and the mom-and-pop crowd have developed a starkly different view about which way stocks are heading. |
For travelers, currency fluctuations have put a summer trip to Europe closer in reach, but you'll still need to be smart about booking and spending to reap the savings.
The euro's value against the dollar has weakened in recent months, driven largely by the launch of the European Central Bank's 1 trillion euro quantit... | Tricks to maximize currency advantages for your European vacation. |
A less dramatic explanation may be that the fixed income market's reaction to last week's Fed statement—wherein bonds rallied on the expectation that rate hikes aren't coming anytime soon—was simply overdone.
"Bonds had gotten overbought after the strong post-FOMC rally," is how Ira Jersey, director of fixed income st... | The traditional relationship between equities and Treasurys appears to be breaking down. Here's why. |
The senator cities unnamed economists who predict the regulations "could cost our country about a third of a trillion dollars in compliance costs and cause electricity price hikes in nearly every state," but I'll wager that his sources fail to account for the jobs and businesses created by investments in clean, renewab... | Here's why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's argument that new pollution rules are an "attack on the middle class" is wrong, says Terry Tamminen. |
RealtyTrac released an interactive map—get it here—that shows the percentage of homebuyers with 3 percent or less down, the median home price and the average down payment percentage.
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, for instance, had 28.68 percent of loans with 3 percent or less in down payments to go with a median home ... | Homebuyers in areas with the lowest costs are making half the down payments as those in more expensive areas, according to new data from RealtyTrac. |
Sterne Agee CRT analyst Brian Wright said he expects United could wind up being the biggest winner of the frenzied merger dance, by sitting it out. He thinks the nation's largest insurer will gain market share while its competitors are distracted trying to win approval for their deals. Aetna and Humana will likely have... | UnitedHealth may not be in the hunt to acquire a rival, but industry consolidation will be a big topic when it releases earnings. |
Another trend that Cramer is seeing in the market recently, is the bull market of healthcare staffing. He attributed this to an improving economy and the Affordable Care Act which have driven more patients to hospitals. This translates to a need for more doctors and nurses.
The healthcare rally is evident in stocks li... | Tweeting big changes? Mad Money host Jim Cramer shares his thoughts on Twitter’s ability to make money. |
Now 51 with a family at home, he said he's been "looking for an out" from the grueling work and long stretches away from home as a rock tour manager. He calls that "a younger man's game."
Four years ago, Morand hooked up with cruise industry veteran Mike London, and the Monsters of Rock Cruise was born. The tour is ba... | The "Monsters of Rock" cruise is promising five days of "fun, sun and debauchery." Don't forget the ear plugs! |
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