Don't be fooled by all the talk of shoe shopping or great nights out with the girls. Women actually value hours spent with their husbands above everything else.

The weeks leading up to the opening of Annette Yang's restaurant were filled with grim economic news - the collapse of Wall Street icons, the billion-dollar bailouts. Then, the day before Yang's dream diner was scheduled to open in San Francisco, the Do

Given Montreal's proximity to substantially-sized American cities -- it's just over five hours driving from Boston, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut -- you might not think Quebec's largest city would be so different than these New England metrop

The quinceañera is surrounded by color and a barrage of sequins, lace, plastic flowers, gold. She is swathed in the rich fabric of youth, in a gown straight from the pages of a fairy tale.

(By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press Writer) The crime scene, alongside a busy freeway off-ramp, was shielded from view by dense brush and tangled tree limbs. The victims - five people shot to death over the weekend at a spot inhabited by the homeless - w