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Al-Nour, beekeeper for four years, has four shops selling his produce. “This business is guaranteed and profitable. It doesn’t require large amounts of capital. All that is needed is a beehive from a farmer."

Feeling a bit past her prime at 27, former athlete Lisa Jorgenson finds herself in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with Lisa's current, baseball-playing beau.

Firefighters and church groups have become bedfellows with beer distributors in an effort to fight initiative 1100 in Washington state, which would deregulate the sale and distribution of alcohol.

Waves of new entrepreneurs are launching gourmet food trucks in L.A., in such droves that some trend watchers are predicting the demise of the hipster food armada.

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A company can go too far in adding a marketing angle to an altruistic gesture. Microsoft tweeted it was donating $100,000 to victims of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami: $1 per retweet.

The obsession with the sultry, immortal beasts is currently a deliciously lucrative business, especially when you add up revenues from movies, books, TV shows and merchandising.

Families' mortgages are often now worth more than their homes, which has some pretty deleterious effects on the housing market.

Retailers from Gap to Urban Outfitters are already struggling to persuade consumers to pay full-price for clothes. Now it turns out, many of their younger customers prefer trading T-shirts, jeans and dresses among themselves.

For all the rising box-office revenues, Chinese cinema has yet to mine akey stream of potential riches: spin-offs. In Hollywood, box-office receipts account for just 30 per cent of a film's revenues.

Axolotls are popular in the aquarium trade and also roasted axolotl is a delicacy in Mexico, further shrinking their numbers.