Women business owners in the Bay Area will be able to learn more about the ways to cut red tape and secure government contracts.

Miami Heat center, Shaquille O`Neil has taken the off-season to pursue his interest in law enforcement. He is reserve deputy at the sheriff`s office in Bedford County, Virginia

Every season has its own special features, events like holidays can make the sales of certain businesses for the entire year. Christmas is the ultimate gift buying season, which businesses happily use to their advantage.

While visiting projects she funds for AIDS orphans in the southern African nation of Malawi this week, Madonna has supposedly adopted a Malawian boy, who goes by the name of David Banda, or Davie, now that he has an Anglo Mother.

On Aug. 11 Britain detained 10 foreign nationals it says are a threat to security. The government plans to deport them, even as many rail against a policy they see as violating civil rights of residents of the UK.

Carmelo Anthony, in his fourth pro year, has emerged to be a superstar. He is carrying the Denver Nuggets to a 13-9 record in the tough Western Conference, and leads the NBA in scoring

Here are three tips on what to do before you take the big plunge into home ownership this spring. First off, pay off your other debts first. Second, use the Internet to check out potential houses and neighborhoods. Finally, determine how much you can afford when it comes to buying a home and applying for a mortgage.

Move comes as cell phone providers seek out different sources of revenue in an environment where call prices continue to fall. Many customers have shunned internet services on cell phones, often finding them complicated and expensive.

New GM Eric Wical has well over 25 years of executive experience working with brands as varied as Abercrombie and Fitch, Nike, Calvin Klein and Merry-Go-Round. Wical`s GM position did not previously exist before the company brought him on.

For the last decade, the beautiful landscapes of the kingdom of Nepal have been the background for a bitter battle fought between the government and Maoist rebels

The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a global professional association and educator in talent management strategies, and Sequent, a consulting and outsourcing firm based in Columbus, Ohio, announced today that Sequent will support HCI initiatives as a global underwriter, helping bring the latest human capital education, metrics, and tools to leading corporations.

More anti-corruption education will be carried out among grass-roots officials, while the procedures for selecting officials for promotion will be stricter, said a communique from China`s President Hu Jintao. "The fight against corruption is a long-term, complicated and arduous task."

As high definition television (HDTV) becomes more prevalent, more and more sports fans want to know which sporting events will be televised in HDTV. Some HDTV sports fans waste hours a week checking out all of the different television network websites trying to figure out which games will be in HDTV.

The new website combines a very simplistic approach to storing your image files online, along with providing each user with multiple linking options. The site will be of tremendous value to bloggers, web auctioneers and other users who cannot afford a paid hosting solution.

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, at a news conference, criticized what he described as the Islamic Republic`s playing a "negative role" in Iraqi affairs. Last October, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain said his government was investigating evidence that Iran had sold sophisticated bombs to insurgents in Iraq.