Help her garden grow this year with a great assortment of practical gifts and treats to eat too. We’ve used a classic wooden planter box and filled it with gardening gloves, 4 assorted seed packets, …
Reuters - U.S. auto sales plunged by 36 percent in December led by outsized declines at Chrysler LLC, Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) and Toyota Motor Corp(7203.T) as the battered industry closed out its weakest year since 1992 in its largest single market.
Reuters - Asian stocks edged up for a seventh day on Tuesday, boosted by hopes for a global economic recovery later in 2009, though the rising yen and falling high-yielding currencies suggested such optimism was limited.
Reuters - U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff on Monday, saying he sent jewelry and other items worth more than $1 million to family and friends in violation of his bail.
Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), the world's biggest automaker, is to halt production at all its Japanese plants for a total of 11 days in February and March in a bid to reduce stocks of unsold cars as demand has slumped.
AFP - World stock markets rose on Monday, with Tokyo hitting the highest level for almost two months as investors hoped that the US economy would start to recover this year after a dire 2008.
AFP - More than 40 Hong Kong toy makers who say they lost 10 million US dollars following the collapse of US retailer KB Toys said Monday they would be seeking compensation from trading firm Li & Fung.
AP - An official with a Bahamian funeral home says Jett Travolta's death certificate says he was killed by a "seizure." Glen Campbell is assistant director of the funeral home handling the remains of John Travolta's 16-year-old son.
AP - An attorney for fugitive movie director Roman Polanski is seeking to have the Los Angeles County Superior Court removed from his notorious sex case, accusing the court on Monday of bias and prejudice against Polanski.
E! Online - In light of Monday's autopsy finding that Jett Travolta, the 16-year-old son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died of a seizure, a medical expert tells E! News that seizures can cause death, even when the person who suffers one is taking medication to manage them.
E! Online - You can take the case out of court, but can you take the court out of the case?
E! Online - Oh, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, you sneaky devil. You always keep us guessing—even from beyond the grave!
Reuters - As Jim Morrison sang, "No one here gets out alive." Maybe he was referring to a modern-day movie theater?
Reuters - Catherine Hardwicke had every reason to celebrate as her latest film, "Twilight," opened to nearly $70 million in November.
Reuters - Cuba on Monday made the first of thousands of digitized documents, photographs and books that belonged to writer Ernest Hemingway available to scholars after the items languished for decades in the basement of his home outside of Havana.
Reuters - The greatest Olympian in history is returning to China, this time as a brand spokesman for Mazda.
Reuters - Cuba on Monday made the first of thousands of digitized documents, photographs and books that belonged to writer Ernest Hemingway available to scholars after the items languished for decades in the basement of his home outside of Havana.