Reality TV star Giuliana Rancic will have both breasts removed in a radical surgical procedure. December 7, 2011- Giuliana Rancic, the star of Giuliana & Bill, will have a double mastectomy. She announced earlier that she would fight her breast cancer with a double lumpectomy and radiation. Now she said she would have the more serious surgery.  Her husband Bill told interviewers that the lumpectomy was not successful in removing the entire mass of cancer in one of her breasts. Therefore, the... 

McDonald’s line of McCafe coffees is helping the company to record sales. December 7, 2011- McDonald’s took a huge gamble in investing in Europe at what many may have felt was the worst possible time to do so. However, thus far in 2011 over 40% of the company’s sales have come from the continent. That has helped it to become one of Wall Street’s best stocks for the year. The stock is up close to 25% on the year. IBM is the only stock in the 30 Dow Industrial stocks that has done better than... 

Madonna is the star of the 2012 Superbowl half-time show. December 5, 2011- On Sunday night NBC, which will broadcast this season’s Super Bowl, announced that Madonna would perform at the Bridgestone Americas halftime show. The Super Bowl is the largest watched sporting event in the United States. The Grammy award-winning entertainer has sold over 300 million records. She will appear at halftime of the big game that will be played in Indianapolis. Madonna will be the key performer in the show that... 

SAP has just purchased web software business SuccessFactors. December 4, 2011- Germany based SAP has announced it will purchase SuccessFactors for more than $3.4 billion. SuccessFactors is a U.S. based web software business that provides cloud-computing services to its clients. SAP announced it would purchase the company for $40 a share, which is equivalent to a 52% premium as of the close of business on Friday. The bid is such that it would be difficult for a competitor to attempt to place a competitive... 

Country singer Mindy McCready was caught abducting a small boy. December 3, 2011- Police have taken into custody country singer Mindy McCready and son Zander. The police found the country singer and her five-year old son hiding Friday night inside a closet. The boy’s legal guardian is in Florida and it is there that a four-day search started. Officials from Florida’s Department of Children and Families released a statement saying the child is safe and paperwork is being prepared to return the... 

Kris Humphries is attempting to anull his marriage to reality star Kim Kardashian. December 2, 2011- NBA player Kris Humphries filed court documents trying to get his 72-day marriage annulled. He wants to put the fiasco behind him and answered the divorce filing Kim Kardashian filed on October 31. He is seeking to have the marriage annulled on the grounds that fraud was committed. In his court documents, he checked the box of “nullity of voidable marriage” and the box for “fraud.” He listed... 

The EU elite are desperately trying to hold the Euorpean Union together at any cost. December 2, 2011- In an attempt to stop a global economic crisis, the finance ministers of the 17-euro zone nations are meeting in Brussels. Their goal is to save the common currency in the zone and make sure the global economy is not affected by their sovereign debt crisis. The ministers have begun to discuss ideas that at one time were unthinkable but must be considered in moments of desperation. Ideas included...