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Discussing your personal finances, spending patterns, and financial plan with your partner is crucial.

Hotel stars don't mean a thing.

Sure, there's a noticeable difference between a one star property and a five star property, but that's pretty much it. Between user reviews and professional guidebooks, someone else's five star could be your three star, and you won't know until you get to the hotel.

What's wilder? What a hotel calls itself — even what it has printed on a metal plaque outside of its doors — is literally made up.

"The one constant is inconsistency" says Jane Reynolds... Читать дальше...

Dressing like a modern gentleman takes style and an eye for the right kind of clothing. These are some coats you can wear at the office and on the weekend that will help you step up your wardrobe.

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart named Brett Biggs, an executive in its international division, as its next chief financial officer Friday.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The world's top finance officials lavished praise on Peru's "economic miracle" this week, lauding it for cutting poverty by half during a decade-long bonanza of record-high prices for gold, copper and other metals it mines.

"The Walking Dead" creator Robert Kirkman had a firm idea of what he wanted when he created the comic book series that would become the hit AMC show.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are moving modestly higher, keeping the market on track for its best week this year.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The family of the former oil minister is asking Nigerians to pray for her as she fights cancer and British allegations of corruption.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pressure is on Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2012, to run for House speaker in the chaotic aftermath of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's sudden decision to abandon his campaign for the post.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The managers of a national park in Congo say poachers killed three rangers and one Congolese military colonel who were part of a 10-man patrol that tracked the satellite collar of a killed elephant to a poachers' camp.

ROME (AP) — Italy bid farewell Friday to 19 Eritreans — the first of an estimated 160,000 refugees to be resettled throughout Europe as part of a new EU redistribution program to move asylum-seekers out of hard-hit front-line countries.

NEW YORK (AP) — Atlanta Hawks player Thabo Sefolosha was acquitted Friday of charges stemming from a struggle with police outside a trendy New York City nightclub that left him with a broken leg and ended his NBA season.

French people often get a bad rap.

Americans and even other Europeans like to joke that they're a lazy group of people who spend their time going on strike or going on vacation.

My mom was born in France, I have many French relatives, and I have visited the country many times.

Here's my attempt to counter some of the myths out there about French people. 

All French women are chic and fashionable.

Yes, you're likely to run into a number of well-dressed women on the streets of Paris and St. Читать дальше...

The Republican race for House speaker has ground to a halt as all eyes focus on one potential candidate: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin).

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The music video star is dressed right, in a low-cut catsuit that leaves little to the imagination. But her body language, as guided by the director, is somehow off.

The "Star Wars Battlefront" beta is open to everyone, for free, on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.

More than 58 years have passed since Sputnik 1 became the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 consisted of a 23-inch-diameter metal sphere with four radio antennas — that's it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — There are no image consultants, no mock stages and no body language coaches.

The FTSE 100 just posted its biggest weekly gain in four years, thanks to a recovery in mining stocks.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at Northern Arizona University (all times local):

Hong Kong (AFP) - Malaysia's ringgit and Indonesia's rupiah led an emerging market rally against the dollar Friday while Asian equities also pushed higher after minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting suggested it could keep borrowing costs at record lows into next year.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Houston Astros beat the Kansas City Royals at their own game Thursday night, relying on sharp pitching from Collin McHugh and stingy defense behind him for a 5-2 victory in the opener of their AL Division Series.

HOUSTON (AP) — Andre Johnson had two touchdown catches against his former team to help the Indianapolis Colts beat the Houston Texans 27-20 on Thursday night.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting insurmountable obstacles, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suddenly withdrew from the contest for speaker of the U.S. House on Thursday, shocking colleagues just before they were to vote and producing ever-deeper chaos for a divided Congress.

A look at what's happening around the major leagues Friday:

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ALL DAY LONG

It's a jam-packed Friday for baseball fans, with four playoff games on tap one right after the other. The action starts at 12:45 p.m. EDT in Toronto, where Texas tries to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. Then it's Kansas City hosting Houston in Game 2 at 3:45 p.m., before the National League grabs the spotlight at night. Kris Bryant and the Chicago Cubs visit St. Louis at 6:45 p.m., followed... Читать дальше...