CNBC's Gasparino: Citigroup Writedown Could be $24B

"Charlie Gasparino reported on CNBC that sources inside the firm have told him the Citigroup write downs could be $24 billion when earnings are announced next Tuesday.  Usually I wouldn't post every discussion of possible future write downs, but these whisper numbers are...

Berlin Tops Germany for 'Creative Class'

"Every city has its ups and downs, some more extreme than others. Berlin was divided by a war, with the West heavily subsidized for decades after industry fled to other parts of the country and the East artificially propped up by a Communist regime. After the fall of the...

Forty years on, DNA helps police close in on boy's killer

"Forty years after the murder of Brighton schoolboy Keith Lyon on the Sussex downs, police said yesterday they finally have the DNA which could lead them to his killer. The officer leading the hunt for those responsible for the death of the musically precocious 12-year-old...

Crackdown Launched On Counterfeit Tickets, Memorabilia

Certainly South Florida has Super Bowl fever, and all of the non-stop parties and countless celebrities sightings, there's another phenomenon flooding this area -- crooks.  This is a warning about buying and selling fake Super Bowl goods.   "As sure as there...

Is Homeland Security Served by Denying Mexican Woman with Downs Syndrome from...

"I often wonder if it was what God intended when He created earth — that man would divide and section off every piece of available space to claim as his own. Somehow it goes against the logic of the "bigger picture." Yet, for children, and the young at heart, there are but a...