Bid it! Jackson gifts heading for auction
For more than 30 years, Betty Alonso has held on to a glittery concert scarf Michael Jackson sent her when she was 12 after the two met face-to-face after a concert in Caracas, Venezuela.
When fact meets fiction, cases are harder to solve
The saying goes that life imitates art. But that’s the last thing you want when you write crime fiction. You never want to see the things you write about mirrored back to you in real life.
Quiz: Finish quotes from classic horror movies
Yves Saint Laurent tops list of dead celebs
Forbes magazine’s ninth annual list of top-earning dead celebrities was unveiled Wednesday, and surprise, surprise: Neither Michael Jackson nor Elvis Presley held court at the top.
China to investigate U.S. car subsidies
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Cost to live in a box — $150 a month
If you have ever complained that your apartment is the size of a shoebox, consider the living space of Hong Kong resident Chung For Lau.
Google to aid music searches
The Internet’s most popular search engine should get smarter about music, as Google updates the algorithms that power its searches this week, a company spokesman said.
Don’t expect a Great Recovery
The economy may get a good report card Thursday for the first time in a long time.
Airline pilots struggle to stay focused
The challenges inherent in getting a 162,000-pound aircraft off the ground and landing it safely are pretty obvious to most observers. But at cruising altitude, above 10,000 feet, pilots face a different critical challenge: staying focused.
‘This Is It’ pulls in record $2.2 mil
Even after his death, Michael Jackson is breaking records.