Topic: Life and Leisure

An Australian billionaire announced plans on Monday to build an "unsinkable" version of the Titanic, 100 years after the original sank after hitting an iceberg.

The Beatles may have sung "all you need is love," but in South Korea a couple wanting to get married also needs cash, a lot of it — nearly $200,000, or more than four times the average annual income.

Is your IRA running at full throttle? Many people don’t realize that IRAs are not set-it-and-forget-it retirement vehicles. They need regular tune-ups to make certain they are producing enough to fund your retirement goals.

CNBC.com ranked the ten places in the U.S. that showed the most job growth between February 2011 and February 2012. Catherine Varner, economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, offered insight into what the numbers mean.

Baby boomers could stand to inherit more than $8 trillion in a transfer of wealth from their parents and, according to one estimate, more than a quarter of that money has already been doled out.

The good news is Americans are living longer. But the worry for many retirees is that they'll outlive their savings.

For most of us, retirement will be the shortest, most challenging period of our lives and yet few are fully prepared for this life stage.

Fruit flies apparently self-medicate just like many humans do, using alcohol as a balm when rejected by desired mates, the New York Times reports.

London’s hotel sector will grow by 3.9 percent in 2012, with the London Olympics and the Queen’s diamond jubilee bolstering tourist demand, according to UK estate agency Savills.

"Delaying retirement leaves a worker with fewer years of retirement to finance, more time to save and earn returns, and higher Social Security benefits," says one financial planner.

Nearly two-thirds of married couples and people with a significant other say their partner is the most important source of happiness in their lives, according to a new global poll released on Valentine's Day.

Couples in India may be getting a break from Hindu extremists on this Valentine’s Day, but they will find pursuing love is more expensive this year. The New York Times reports.

Mainland Chinese who have a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaching China's one-child policy, Chinese media quoted a family planning official as saying, as mainland Chinese women flock to the former British colony to give birth.

British low-cost airline easyJet posted a 16.7 percent rise in first-quarter revenue, helped by a continued rise in business travellers and a lack of weather-related travel disruption.

In an age of celebrity and fame, Hollywood might seem like a great place to make money fast, but while the payoffs in major film production can be massive, so can the losses.