Olympics host Vancouver ranked world’s most liveable city
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) — Vancouver has again topped a list of the top 10 most liveable cities in the world, giving the Canadian west coast city an extra boost as it opens the 2010 Winter…
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) — Vancouver has again topped a list of the top 10 most liveable cities in the world, giving the Canadian west coast city an extra boost as it opens the 2010 Winter…
NEW YORKÂ — Don’t say we didn’t warn you. In January 2006, CNNMoney published a ranking of 299 U.S. housing markets, showing where home prices were most overvalued. Little was undervalued: Real estate was white-hot…
They’re back in fashion, with good reason: An hour spent cutting and clipping can yield about $100 in savings. Clipping coupons hardly sounds like the subject of high finance — or even medium finance. Save…
Roam any drugstore and you’ll see products that seem to be twins, except for one thing: One is for women, the other for men. We discovered that products directed at women – through packaging, description,…
While the debate over climate change rages on, energy-efficient features have become a key attraction for today’s home buyers. The National Association of Realtors’ 2009 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers found that nearly 90…
APR Shocks Many, but Issuer Says They Are Pricing for the Risk If you have bad credit in the new era of credit card regulation, be prepared to pay — dearly — for the privilege…
Kia Motors America took the wraps off the Ray concept at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. There’s no denying the show car reveals a decidedly sportier side of Kia, the likes of which we’ve not…
Forget red and blue – color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual combination of…
BRAINTREE, Mass. — An Alabama university professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues at a faculty meeting this week shot her younger brother dead at their home in the Boston suburbs more than 20 years…
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. –Despite big wave warnings, two 20-foot walls of water caught dozens of spectators off-guard and knocked them to a rocky beach as they watched a Northern California surfing contest Saturday, leaving…
In case you hadn’t heard, February is American Heart Month, an initiative to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke, the number one killer in the U.S. Eating a healthy diet can be a key…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia(AP)–A men’s Olympic luger from the country of Georgia died Friday after a high-speed crash during training. IOC president Jacques Rogge said the death hours before the opening ceremony “clearly casts a shadow…
If history is any indicator, less than 1% of Americans will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service in the coming year. And while some of these audits are totally random, and there’s nothing that…
The 2010 Winter Olympics begin Friday night in Vancouver. To prepare for the kickoff to the Games, Fourth-Place Medal takes a look at the 10 things to watch for during the Opening Ceremony: 1. Who…
Apologies to Tolstoy, but one of the biggest novelists these days is a 15-year-old in Japan who wrote a book from her cell phone using her thumbs. Really. The new type of storytelling is called…
The movie studio that produced the mega-blockbuster, “Avatar,” had no problem with the film’s alien race being blue — but it turns out they were initially concerned about the Na’vi being too green. According to…
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