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With a hot cover photo of model Kate Upton on this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the magazine created a big buzz about photo shoots on all seven continents. But this year, beautiful models in barely there bik...

After backlash from customers, the producer of Maker's Mark bourbon is reversing a decision to cut the amount of alcohol in bottles of its famous whiskey.

COMMENTARY by Dean Schabner: Maybe it's fitting that Michael Jordan's 50th birthday happens to fall on the NBA's All-Star Sunday, because he is still the ultimate measure of basketball greatness. Unlike the great stars p...

A Minneapolis woman says her 2-year-old son was traumatized by a man accused of slapping the boy and calling him a racial slur during an Atlanta-bound flight.

Investigators know roughly where the flames erupted in the engine room of the Carnival Triumph, but it could be a year before they learn what caused the fire, which left the massive ship adrift for days in the Gulf of Me...

Krysten Ritter, the former "B---- in Apt. 23," has found a new home at NBC. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ritter will star in "Assistance," a comedy based on Leslye Headland's play of the same name. Headland will ...

Rafael Nadal's rivals take note -- the Spaniard is on his way back and he's ready to fire on all cylinders.

An Israeli parliamentary inquiry will investigate the death in custody of Prisoner X, said to be an Australian-Israeli with links to Mossad.

The 17-nation eurozone contracted 0.6% in Q4 2012 on a quarterly basis, worse than expected. Germany was down 0.6%, France off 0.3%, Italy fell 0.9%. Don't ask about Spain, Portugal, or Greece.

CONCORD, N.H. -- Police chiefs in New Hampshire wanted more money for their youth training program. A youth hockey team in North Dakota needed more ice time. Both saw giving away guns as the answer.

Many BBC journalists are due to strike in a row over compulsory redundancies but the corporation says it can still produce news programmes.

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The journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones's book "Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall" examines the conundrums behind the graffiti artist Banksy and the growing Banksy brand.

Danica Patrick has taken the NASCAR world by storm, winning the most popular driver award last year as voted by fans. The GoDaddy.com Super Bowl mainstay has now made Sprint Cup history, becoming the first female driver ...

When I suggested in yesterday's piece on "how to be happy at work" that delighting customers is key, a colleague wondered whether the single-position goal of delighting customers might cause a long-term anti-societal bia...

Sir Philip Green tells Sky News e-commerce has changed the way people shop and many retailers would like to have fewer stores.

President Obama's plan to provide free, high-quality preschool across the country is getting a mixed response, garnering broad support for helping poor children but raising questions about expanding entitlements and the ...

Bungie has unveiled its new 'shared-world' shooter game 'Destiny' but there's still very little to go on.

Highlights of day three of London Fashion Week

Government vows action as Shia leaders give 48-hour deadline to act against perpetrators of attack that left 84 dead.

Cardinal Francis George called the Roman Catholic Church's upcoming change of leadership "a huge moment" and asked parishioners to pray for him and other cardinals as they prepare to travel to Rome to elect the next pope...