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Police video showing George Zimmerman's girlfriend Samantha Scheibe talking to cops about an alleged domestic violence incident has been leaked online. In the video, Scheibe describes the November incident as well as oth...

The end of World War II signaled the beginning of a new era of leisure for Europeans and Americans alike. Those with the means started traveling more than ever before, and for many that meant making a trip to luxurious i...

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Investors Are Throwing Money At One Fund Manager's Inflation Bet (Financial Times) Michael Aronste...

To lure a younger crowd, Marriott International is making a turn toward flash, partly by offering new hotel brands.     

A few days into the experiment, the new world of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado appears to be a big success--so much so that pot shops are finding it impossible to keep up with demand. According to the De...

Neetzan Zimmerman is leaving Gawker Media to work at social media startup Whisper.  Zimmerman has what we in the blogging game call the "pageview gene."* He generates an insane amount of traffic. How insane, you ask? We...

The man who invented those tiny plush toys you used to buy with your allowance dropped out of college and could not serve in the military because of a hearing problem. These are just a few of the details about Ty Warner,...

With little vacant land left, developers and wealthy buyers are razing small, older houses in sought-after Southern California neighborhoods to build modern mansions.The front-end loader swung to the right and took a bit...

Sure Mark Wahlberg is a successful actor, having starred in big-time hits like "The Departed" and "The Fighter," but the Boston-bred star didn't earn his high school diploma until just this year. Back in September, Wahlb...

The U.K.'s financial regulator faces a host of challenges as it tries to remake itself as a tough-on-crime financial watchdog after years of rarely prosecuting insider-trading cases.

I have had the good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is fierce certainly, but ...

Without "want to," the overwhelming desire to make something happen, odds are nothing will occur.

Gold of 99.9 and 99.5% declined by Rs130 to Rs30,360 and Rs30,160 per ten grams, respectively

SolarCity, a start-up that bet on solar energy, is priced high on the stock market with barely any profits. But it has some headaches that others don't.     

The Wall Street regulator who oversaw and closed some of the most prominent investigations into the financial crisis announced his departure from the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, a move that could porten...

The U.S. economy's recovery from the 2007-09 recession likely would have been far more feeble without the Federal Reserve's extraordinary stimulus efforts, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a speech.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen discusses the current state of tech investing and why "this is a time of very big franchise creation."

Michelin-starred chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten owns 11 restaurants in New York City, two in Las Vegas, a pair in Shanghai, another in Paris, and has a hand in more than a dozen other popular dining establishments in the...

Royal Enfield, with the Bullet and other models, is making waves even as the competition for midsize bikes is heating up.     

Winter storms in the Northeast snarled travel plans Friday, stranding some passengers (boo-hoo) in sunny South Florida.

Four years after the state-wide smoking ban in bars and restaurants went into effect, it's a success in a host of ways and isn't hurting profits at the businesses, according…

The departing Fed chairman says Americans' finances have improved and he foresees less drag on the economy from tax increases and federal spending cuts.Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said factors that have kept...