Haute hot spots the world over are luring experienced vacationers bored with typical travels. Here are the top of the crop.

Spinoffs often provide attractive long-term investment opportunities. Here are a few potential stars.

Houses designed to fit on postage-stamp-sized plots offer Japanese an affordable way to live in bustling, crowded, and hugely expensive downtown areas.

The interest payable on personal loan as well as the princiapl repaid will be eligible for a deduction.

Its increasing use opens a Pandora's Box of privacy issues and is unfairly skewed toward certain groups.

What are the hottest jobs for 2007? Fast Company spoke with trend experts to compile a list of the top 10 professions that will be in high demand in 2007.

From San Francisco to Sydney, find out how much--or little--property your dollar will fetch.

U.S. prosecutors indicted a former professional American cyclist on Thursday for lying about past use of steroids before the BALCO grand jury investigating doping in professional sports.

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Words of advice from Peter G Kaestner, US Consul General, New Delhi.

Small employers are creating jobs at a breakneck pace. Here are the industries they're influencing, and the opportunities that lie within them.

'I don't think the world should be ruled by any country. And I think India's fierce independence makes it foolhardy for anyone to try "blackmail." '

Abnormally high blood counts among 12 Olympic cross-country skiers marred the start of the Winter Games.

Sex, alcohol and doping scandals coupled with a simmering controversy involving figure skating queen Michelle Kwan are sapping much-needed momentum from U.S. athletes in the run-up to the Winter Olympics.

Triple Olympic champion Marion Jones made a shock departure when she walked off the track just before her preliminary race of the women's 100 metres.

Pakistan's double game could blow up in America's face, warns Bernard-Henri Levy.

Hungarian Zsolt Baumgartner handed the struggling Formula One team their first point in 41 races.

At a San Francisco news conference on Wednesday, Jones said that she had used a legal zinc supplement developed by BALCO from 1999-2001.

The club said it did not break any rules in paying 13.4 million pounds ($24.2 million) to agents on top player transfers from 2001 to 2004.

The California laboratory said that no "positive test" results for steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs were found at the lab.

: The European 100 metres champion failed a test for the new designer steroid THG