Photo courtesy of Crown Jewels Newly released rubbers take royal protection to a whole new level. Or so a London-based condom manufacturer hopes anyway. Crown Jewels, which describes itself as "the proud purveyor of an exclusive range of heritage love sheaths,&q

Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, holds up a bag she was given as a gift after a visit to a 999 Club in Deptford, southeast London, September 10, 2009. Paparazzi snapped Kate Middleton and Camilla Parker Bowles enjoying a girls-only lunch on Feb. 9. Now all of London is

Now that his term's over, the Governator may be the Terminator once more. After seven years of public service, the former Republican governor of California announced on Twitter Friday that he's returning to the big screen–and he's looking for offers.  His personal aide, Daniel

Brazilian soccer phenom Ronaldo announced Monday his retirement from The Beautiful Game after 18 years because of his body's inability to keep up with the pace of the sport, the Associated Press reported . The striker, christened Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, is leaving at a ripene

Nokia could've picked the fast-growing Android and been a star in the Google-verse. So why is it going with the riskier Microsoft Phone OS? Image of Stephen Elop by luca.sartoni via Flickr It's official – Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on rivals Apple and Google. Th

At a bargain-basement auction of foreclosed homes held on Jan. 29 in a New York City Sheraton hotel, one of the music tracks that played as bidders prepared to pounce on distressed properties was James Brown's "Living in America." It was either a major planning blunder or a brillia

FORTUNE -- Sometimes it's better to be late to a party. By the time Best Buy made a splash in China in 2006, large domestic rivals had already spread their tentacles across the nation, the Wal-Marts of the world were becoming entrenched, and massive PC malls -- a sort of messy and hyperactive p

   Thank you.    What a greeting!    This is like winning an Oscar! ...As if I would know! Speaking of acting, one of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.    My fellow Americans, this is an

Beauty sleep, it's widely assumed, is one of those invented phenomena that parents use to ease their children's passage to bedtime. After all, if sleeping had any real impact on beauty, bears, toads and frogs would be the handsomest creatures on the planet. But now a new study out of Sweden sugg