IBT Staff Reporter

Guests at a recent recording of the Oprah Winfrey show were in for a surprise when the chat show queen announced that she was flying them all down to Australia to can two shows from the final season of her talk show.

French luxury brand Louis Vuitton has come up with a unique way of ensuring that their stores are well stacked to handle the Christmas shopping frenzy.

Recently researches have been carried out to determine the extent to which our brain functions are impacted by our surroundings. The findings, published in the journal NeuroImage, show that serene environmental scenes with natural features

Researchers at Glasgow University, Scotland have found that since the ban in the country of smoking in enclosed public places in 2006 cases of childhood asthma

Low-carb diets are not similar to each other, according to a new Boston study. Your health may depend on what you have with it.

Now you can own your very own piece of luxurious Hawaiian paradise. Real Estate Company Concierge Auctions has announced plans to auction a set of super luxury properties in what many consider one of the most beautiful islands in the world.

For the first time in the world, a study has examined how good habits have a multiplying effect on mortality in Asian women. The study results are that smoking husbands are shortening their wives' lives. Other results of the study include that Chinese women with plenty of healthy habits tend to live longer than their friends with less healthy lifestyles.

An ad by a U.S. non-profit group is creating some doubts about linkage between heart disease deaths and fast-food. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's ad has a woman sobbing. She has clasped the hand of a dead man lying in a morgue.

Males who carry specific alterations of DNA on the sole X-chromosome are at high risk of developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a Canadian study showed.

Verizon has said it will not be Microsoft's Windows Phone 7's official carrier which is due to be launched this year.

The Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee has appreciated that the monetary policy tightening by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its mid quarterly policy review by increasing interest rates.

Big brother China has beaten India for the first time in the number of students to US management schools.

The share of foreign students coming to the United States has been going down every year since 2000, shows a study released by an international body comprising the developed nations of the world.

The Twitter obsession seems to be waning among celebrities. Singer John Mayer, one of the micro blogging sites most high profile users with 3.7 million followers, shut his account on Monday

Hip hop superstars Jay-Z and Eminem performed together to kick off their first concert at the new Yankee Stadium to an adrenalin-driven audience of 50,000.

Former Beatle star John Lennon's 70th birth anniversary will include a benefit concert in New York, organizers said on Tuesday.

Zoe Saldana, who played a sexy blue alien in James Cameron's 3D blockbuster Avatar toped People magazine's annual best-dressed list on Wednesday

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen described his seminal album, Darkness on the Edge of Town, as a shift into adulthood for a small-town musician who wanted to be heard.

Emmy Award winning television comedy show 30 Rock will get some extra star power on its new season. Broadcaster NBC on Wednesday said actors Matt Damon, Queen Latifah, Paul Giamatti and Rob Reiner will be making guest star appearances on the upcoming 5th season.

Hollywood couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones want to renew their wedding vows to mark their 10th wedding anniversary.

The Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson sported a slim look recently. Spotted at a fundraising event of Weight Watcher's at a New York school, the 29-year-old singer-actor also said she couldn't wait to perform again.

Michael Jackson's mother and his three children have filed a civil lawsuit on Wednesday against the promoters of a series of planned concerts before his death last year.

Hollywood actors who had fallen in love with social networking website Twitter when it was launched a few years ago, seem to have suddenly developed an aversion to it.

Fans of Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz, who had taken their idol's rounder-looking tummy as an attitude statement, were in for a pleasant shock when it was reported that Penny was actually four-and-half months pregnant.

Definitely keep your resume within the 1-2 page range. If you don't have much experience, you can probably get everything on one page, but try not to feel restricted by this number. Two page resumes are entirely acceptable as long as they contain relevant information.

Brazil created a record number of payroll jobs for the month of August in a sign that its economy is growing at a solid pace.

According to a recent realty report by Reuters, an unbelievable number of US homeowners lost their homes to banks. RealtyTrac, a real estate data company sees a record 1.2 million repossessions this year, up from just fewer than 1 million last year, with more than 3.2 million US homes in some stage of foreclosure.

Manhattan apartment vacancy on all-time high

In surge of properties up for sale, GSE's economists forecast that home prices may fall an additional 1 to 1.5 per cent in the third quarter, and might later stabilize during the first half of 2011 and begin to rise during the balance of the year.