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You can’t make a fortune without making a few enemies. A New Culture News survey that was reported in China Daily found that 53 Chinese billionaires have died of unnatural causes since 2003. Of the 53 fabulously wealthy and extremely unlucky individuals, 15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, seven...

Taxes, ugh taxes. Tax time again – which for most is a tearful goodbye to hard earned money. Not for Toshiki Takei. For him it’s the biggest payday of his tax paying life after being awarded a refund of $2.4 Billion. However, it didn’t happen in one return. In...

Hard work pays off, unless you are multi-tasker extraordinaire, Ping Han. The British man owns a travel agency, an insulation business, a translation service and manages 4 rental properties all while working his regular 9 – 5 as a clerk at Britain’s Rail Corp. Problem is Rail Corp. says...

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Brendan’s mom Dawn is probably not in the running for mother of the year. Dawn is complaining that her son managed to accrue around $1,700 in debt after she used her debit card to pay for a...

While Matthew Broderick had the starring role in Ferris Bueller’s day off, Alan Ruck (who played Cameron Frye) really stole the show – and now the Frye family home can be yours as long as you don’t mind parting with a significant chunk of change… and no, the Ferrari...

When two police officers happened upon 40-year-old trial lawyer Mark Moody smoking on his window ledge, they became concerned that he might be trying to harm himself. Understand, they were not concerned that the plethora of carcinogens contained within the cigarette that he was smoking were injuring his lungs...

A wire mesh sculpture that used rolled up dollar bills to spell out the word “honesty” was stolen from the art gallery of a Minnesota college. John Ilg’s conceptual piece had been displayed twice before and had survived the 2008 Minnesota State Fair. Unfortunately for Ilg, the weeks that...

Queensland $6 billion man, Clive Palmer, the state’s richest man earned the respect of not only his staff, but most Australians this week. Palmer handed out $10  million in gifts to his 800-strong Townsville nickel refinery staff, including a fleet of 55 Mercedes-Benz cars and an amazing 700 overseas holidays. It...

The computer pictured here is one of the 200 original Apple-1 computers built by Steve Jobs in his parents’ garage in 1976. It was the first personal computer that could be purchased fully assembled. With its 8K of memory, 1.0 MHz MOS 6502 processor and cassette type read-write interface,...