One man in Erie, Colorado, had his world rocked when he woke up last Friday morning to phone calls from strangers asking about his house being for sale. “I just thought there was a paper with a typo. Then I read the ad and it all came together,” Brian Lusk, of Erie, Colorado, told ABC News of the epic prank that’s gone viral. His buddy, Brian Rauk, is a diehard Steelers fan. Lusk, however, is a huge Broncos fan. When the Broncos made it to the Super Bowl, a slightly bitter Rauk decided Read more [...]

11:08 Best week for Anglo American since October Anglo American is on track for its best weekly performance since early October after it revealed it increased production at its Minas-Rio mine in Brazil. So far this week the FTSE 100 stock has made gains of more than 20pc. Jon Yeomans writes: The falling price of metals and minerals has not deterred Anglo American from stepping up its output. The embattled FTSE 100 miner, which is in the midst of Read more [...]

  Light Snow Wind: SSW 32 gust 45 km/h<!-- Sunrise: 7:48Sunset: 17:26 -->Date: 12:00 PM EST Thursday 28 January 2016   Read more [...]

27 Jan 2016 By Felix Sowerbutts Comments On 27 January 2016, Y.CO announced that it has listed 40m Royal Huisman build Antares for sale. She is a joint listing with Burgess and is on the market Read more [...]

ALEXA WELCH EDLUND/Times-Dispatch 20160127_BIZ_SALEp01 The home at 2609 Monument Avenue is for sale Tuesday, January 26, 2016. Read more [...]

Transport for London introduced contactless payments in September 2014 Nearly half a million contactless payment terminals have been installed in British retailers, enabling near-instant payment without verifying the sale with a PIN or signature. “From here on, every acceptance device that’s ever installed or upgraded will be contactless as standard,” said Mr Jenkins. Some shops such as Boots and Costa Coffee already offer contactless sales across the country. However, the supermarkets have Read more [...]

The outfit touched a nerve as Carnival celebrations got under way in Italy, where it is common custom for schoolchildren to wear fancy dress during the pre-Lenten festivities that run through February 9. The "Wartime Refugee” costume was was displayed for sale online alongside a host of other fancy dress options, like Batman and Elsa from Walt Disney’s animated film “Frozen.” Complaints that children might consider dressing up as refugees instead of Pinocchio or princesses poured in after Read more [...]

“We’re sort of firearms connoisseurs,” Whitney Condit said as she excitedly explored the latest handguns and semi-automatic assault rifles to hit the market at Shot Show, the world’s largest gun industry trade fair. As she spoke, fellow enthusiasts spread out over the 2.25m square feet Sands Expo convention centre at the Venetian casino on Las Vegas’s strip. “We like to go out on range, we like to shoot. It’s a passion of ours.” Condit and her fiance, Colin Gallagher, a former star Read more [...]

By Kevin Gillies Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows home sales during 2015 were consistent with, and contributed to, record sales numbers for the Greater Vancouver region in 2015. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver reports that 2015 home sales were the highest annual total in the regional association’s history. According to the real estate board, in a year when the number of homes listed for sale was below historical averages, actual home sales in Metro Vancouver set a Read more [...]

By Geoff Foster for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 GMT, 21 January 2016 | Updated: 21:55 GMT, 21 January 2016 View comments Forever considered a defensive area of the market in times of extreme stress, selected utilities continue to find favour on yield considerations.National Grid, which brings in a stonking dividend yield of 4.8 per cent, rose 7.6p to 925.4p amid whispers Read more [...]