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The popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has brought new attention to the lure of erotic/romantic fiction. According to a new report by CNBC, Romance is the best-selling fiction genre.

Risky assets rose on moderate volume and moderately bad news Thursday, as investors seemed to be placing a paradoxical bet that a slowdown in economic growth would jolt the U.S. central bank into action -- inflating the prices of stocks, commodities and other assets -- while at the same time assuming the slowdown would not be so harsh as to throw the current recovery completely off track.

Bonobos, the largest clothing brand launched on the Internet in the U.S., is stepping out from the digital realm and into Nordstrom stores nationwide.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sternly rebuked North Korea on Thursday for its planned rocket launch, which is scheduled to take place sometime before Tuesday.

What will future generations know about everyday life in 2012? Swedish organization aday.org hopes to make things easier by creating a visual archive, documenting A Day In The World as it looked on May 15, 2012.

New York Yankee fans will be happy to learn on Thursday about the hottest deal on the web through a LivingSocial deal: An opportunity to meet Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera at an upcoming game. But in order to meet your favorite Yankee, it will cost you. $2,000-$2,500 to be exact.

The Casual Vacancy is JK Rowling's new book for adults. The Harry Potter author has had an astonishing career writing all-ages tales, but her upcoming tome will be a major departure.

Swiftly and without much hullabaloo, Fox News exterminated The Fox Mole, a Fox News employee who had been feeding anonymous information to Gawker from inside the organization, in less than 24 hours. On Monday, at around 3 p.m. he published his first article. By Tuesday just before 9 p.m., The Fox Mole was fired and he revealed his true identity on Gawker as former Fox News employee Joe Muto.

Reports, rumors and fabrications about appalling labor violations at Foxconn factories in China left Apple enthusiasts thoughtful and confused when they purchased their new iPad on March.16.

Manhattan's 2 World Financial Center was evacuated Thursday morning after workers who discovered what they believed to be a hand grenade contacted authorities -- it turned out to be a toy, police said.

Johnson & Johnson was fined $1.1 billion by an Arkansas judge for concealing the risks of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.

After investigating suspicious packages at the World Financial Center, prompting officials to evacuate one of the buildings on Thursday, officials determined the parcels were harmless are allowing workers to return to their building

Dudley said strong first-quarter data might have been the result of unseasonably warm weather in much of the United States that pulled forward some economic activity and hiring.

Police are currently investigating suspicious packages at the World Financial Center, prompting officials to evacuate one of the buildings on Thursday.

A former employee of an upscale Manhattan Chinese restaurant, Chin Chin, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday that claims her co-workers harassed her with phallic shaped dumplings, some of which would end up on diners' tables. Yvonne Diaz, who worked as a bartender at the restaurant between 2007 and last year, claims that workers at the eatery put the dumplings in their crotch areas making it look like they had big penises, reported the New York Post.

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Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday announced it has deployed an oil spill response vessel in the Gulf of Mexico after a 10-square mile oil sheen appeared near the company's area of operations.

It's not unusual for Fox to be attacked for conservative bias, but two recent and surprising instances have put the television news network in the spotlight this week.

Will Tim Tebow be the opening day starter for the Jets? Not if the fans have any say in the matter.

U.S. regulators on Wednesday urged food producers to voluntarily stop using antibiotics in livestock for non-medical uses as part of a broad effort to prevent the rise of drug-resistant superbugs. The FDA said antibiotics should only be used under the supervision of a veterinarian to prevent or treat illnesses in animals. It asked companies to start phasing out the use of antibiotics for non-medical purposes.

An organ donation video people can watch on an iPod while they wait at the Department of Motor Vehicles may encourage more to become donors, a new study suggests. Researchers found that for folks getting a driver's license at the DMV in their county, watching a video on one of Apple's iPods seemed to sway the decision on becoming an organ donor.