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Reality TV star Kim Kardashian took to the streets with her basketball star husband Kris Humphries keeping a protective arm around her as they arrived at The Darby in New York City to celebrate the star's 31st birthday with plenty celebrity guests.

The highly anticipated biography of Steve Jobs will be available Monday, and judging by advance attention, it promises to be an all-time great tome, capable of briefly reviving the sagging hardcover book business.

In a bid to kick-start the moribund U.S. housing market, two senior American lawmakers want to make it easier for wealthy foreigners to purchase U.S. homes.

Imprisoned financial scam artist Bernard Madoff boasted in a jailhouse letter that he is quite the celebrity and treated like a Mafia don, ABC News said on Thursday.

He had often used the narrative of his parents’ escape from Communism as a compelling theme in his public speeches.

The prince was the son of the kingdom's founder, King Abdul-Aziz, who was known as Ibn Saud.

Homeowners who owe more than their houses are worth will get new help to refinance in a government plan to be unveiled as early as Monday to support the battered housing sector, sources familiar with the effort said.

Eight weeks of marriage and already rumors of a divorce between Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are raging. Kim, who turns 31 on Saturday, vehemently denied the rumors of a split with her husband. However, the latest tabloids report she has hired a divorce lawyer and Humphries is all set to go back to an ex-girlfriend.

Number crunchers have come up with an unexpected conclusion about the National Basketball Association's decision to cut short its season: There may actually be a few economic winners.

New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen has sold the movie rights to his young adult novel series Empty Coffin to independent financier and production company Kerry Kimmel & Pollack and Eric Thompson's Vigilante Entertainment, the companies announced.

A former Wall Street banker of Japanese descent has emerged as a key figure in the scandal engulfing Japanese blue-chip company Olympus Corp , according to documents provided by the company's ex-CEO.

Kim Kardashian and her Husband Kris Humphries are not getting a divorce and they are not even close to breaking up, sources have told the media.

Prospects for corporate earnings are appearing comparatively dimmer in the coming quarters -- even though reports so far this quarter have been looking relatively bright.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc will no longer offer health insurance to new part-time U.S. employees who work fewer than 24 hours a week and will charge workers who use tobacco more for coverage as healthcare costs rise, the company said on Friday.

Judgment Day redux is Oct. 21

Martha Marcy May Marlene heralds the birth of a new star: Elizabeth Olsen.

Dana Anderson, who spoke at the ANA Conference Oct. 21, became a Twitter sensation after Martha Stewart tweeted that Anderson is a hidden treasure. Her speech was rife with inspirational quotes and words of wisdom, and the audience lauded her comedic genius.

Princeton University Prof. Cornel West was arrested Friday, the second time this week, at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Harlem protesting outside a police precinct against the NYPD's stop and frisk policy.

South Africa's rand ended the week with its biggest loss in a month on Friday but had bounced from two-week lows on hopes that European leaders were close to a deal that will recapitalise banks and stop the debt crisis from spreading.

Do the math: if AT&T is allowed to buy T-Mobile, it would become a monolithic provider in a period when competition should be free.

Wish I had seen the whole thing!