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MUSIC fans are forking out a whopping $360 per ticket to some of this year's biggest shows by international acts. Is it too much?

THE Hanlon family of Hobart are big fans of Kevin Rudd's new super-fast broadband.

The big names are going, but North Carolina won't fade away next year. Jeff Goodman says there's still loads of talent in Chapel Hill.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Wednesday he and three U.S. Congress members had a 'magnificent meeting', but he reiterated doubts about the possibility of big changes in U.S.-Cuba relations.

AUSTRALIA'S biggest bond issue since World War II could be a failure if bond yields are pitched too low.

From American Idol to Grey's Anatomy, a look at the 15 most expensive ad buys in prime time.

Bank of america, the U.S Largest Bank, may need a big capital boost in equity to bolster its capital ratios, analysts at Oppenheimer & Co said Wednesday, according to Bloomberg.

A Conservative government would be prepared to break up Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis, the shadow chancellor George Osborne announced yesterday.In a speech on the lessons to be learned from the recession, Obsorne warned that the government may be encouraging renewed risk-taking by helping to create banks that are 'too big to fail'.The government now has a majority shareholding in Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland after it moved to prevent the collapse of the British banking sector last year. The Tories supported the rescue, but Osborne indicated that ministers should think carefully about selling the banks to the highest bidder when the time comes. He said: 'We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail ... Not only do large financial institutions do more damage when they get into trouble, but their very size ... may encourage them to behave irresponsi

Britain's biggest waste project was finally signed off on Wednesday amid tentative signs that banks may be rediscovering their appetite for private finance initiative projects

More states are weighing major increases in income tax or sales tax to make up for plunging revenue.