It's a Deal - No Questions Asked - In the Dragons' Den

There's a first time for everything and London-based inventor Solvej Biddle gets everything she asks for - without Peter Jones asking a single question - when she appears on Dragons' Den this evening .

Worst jobs: Readers share stories of their stories of making a buck the hard way

For Labor Day weekend, we asked readers to recall the worst jobs they ever had. Here are their stories.

Australia's most unwanted

Over the aeons there have been any number of ingenious tricks played by Australian officialdom to stem the tide of human traffic. In the gold rush of the 1850s and '60s, Victoria invented a hefty poll tax levied on the masters of ships bringing Chinese to the colony: £10 for every Chinaman on board.

Army Personnel Forced to Worship

  *The AP is reporting that the U.S. Army said last week it was investigating a claim that several soldiers who refused to attend a Christian music concert at a Virginia military base were banished to their barracks and told to clean them up.Fort Eustis spokesman Rick Haverinen told the media he couldn’t comment on [...]

'Bad Mother's Handbook,' 'The Norm Show,' 'Thriller' DVD reviews

2007 TV movie "The Bad Mother's Handbook" is a Robert Pattinson bait-and-switch; "The Norm Show" was a by-the-numbers sitcom; Boris Karloff anthology "Thriller" deserves a renaissance