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15 amazing Airbnb rentals in Paris

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Renting out someone else's home through Airbnb is a fun alternative to the traditional hotel. 

You can learn a lot from staying with someone from a different culture — especially when traveling to a city in a foreign country.

If you'll be traveling to the City of Light soon and want to try out Airbnb, we've got you covered.

Here are some of the best homes you can rent in Paris using the home-sharing site. 

Go back in time at this 18th-century flat.

This charming apartment has exposed wood beams and vintage tiles. On the upper floor, a beautiful freestanding tub sits directly beneath a skylight.

Cost: $182/night

Accommodates: 3

Neighborhood: Le Marais, 3rd arrondissement

 



Sleep on the Seine in this pleasant houseboat.

This two-bedroom barge is a bit off the beaten track, but you won't soon forget its unique decor and beautiful views.

Cost: $410/night

Accommodates: 6

Neighborhood: Neuilly-sur-Seine



Stay in an airy home close to public transit.

This adorable three-bedroom apartment on the Rue la Fayette is very convenient for train travelers from Gare du Nord.

Cost: $223/night

Accommodates: 8

Neighborhood: Porte Saint-Denis, 10th arrondissement

 



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21 lottery winners who blew it all

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As the Powerball jackpot nears $500 million, we're reminded that winning the lottery will not solve all of life's problems.

In fact, many people's lives became notably worse after they got super rich, and they managed to lose it all quite quickly.

Mandi Woodruff contributed to this report.

Lara and Roger Griffiths bought their dream home .. and then life fell apart.

Before they won a $2.76 million lottery jackpot in 2005, Lara and Roger Griffiths hardly ever argued.

Then they won, and bought a million-dollar house and a Porsche.

But six years after their win, Roger drove away in the Porsche after Lara confronted him over emails suggesting he was interested in another woman.

Their 14-year marriage was over, a freak fire gutted their house, and every penny of their fortune was gone.



Bud Post lost $16.2 million within a nightmarish year — his own brother put out a hit on him.

William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but was $1 million in debt within a year.

"I wish it never happened," Post said. "It was totally a nightmare."

A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings and his brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him in the hopes he'd inherit a share of the winnings.

After sinking money into various family businesses, Post sank into debt and spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector.

Bud now lives quietly on $450 a month and food stamps.



Martyn and Kay Tott won a $5 million jackpot, but lost the ticket.

Martyn Tott, 33, and his 24-year-old wife from the UK missed out on a $5 million lottery fortune after losing their ticket.

They were able to convince officials, but since there is a 30-day time limit on reporting lost tickets, the jackpot became the the largest unclaimed amount since the lottery began in 1994.

"Thinking you're going to have all that money is really liberating. Having it taken away has the opposite effect," Kay Tott told The Daily Mail. "It drains the life from you and puts a terrible strain on your marriage. It was the cruelest torture imaginable."



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Science says people decide these 9 things within seconds of meeting you

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Psychologists call it "thin slicing." 

Within moments of meeting somebody, you decide all sorts of things about them, from status to intelligence to promiscuity.

If you're trustworthy

People decide on your trustworthiness in a tenth of a second

Princeton researchers found this out by giving one group of university students 100 milliseconds to rate the attractiveness, competence, likeability, aggressiveness, and trustworthiness of actors' faces.

Another group was able to take as long as they wanted. While other traits differed depending on time spent looking, trustworthiness was basically the same.

 



If you're high-status

A Dutch study found that people wearing name-brand clothes — Lacoste and Tommy Hilfiger, to be precise — were seen as higher status than folks wearing non-designer clothes. 

"Perceptions did not differ on any of the other dimensions that might affect the outcome of social interactions,"the authors wrote. "There were no differences in perceived attractiveness, kindness, and trustworthiness." 

Just status.



If you're straight or gay

People can read a man's sexual orientation in a twentieth of a second — the minimum amount of time it takes to consciously recognize a face. 

"The rapid and accurate perception of male sexual orientation may be just another symptom of a fast and efficient cognitive mechanism for perceiving the characteristics of others,"wrote study authors Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady.



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These high-resolution images of Chris Hadfield's view of Earth from the ISS will boggle your mind

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When retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut, Chris Hadfield, was aboard the International Space Station for the final time, he made the most of it. 

From December 2012 to May 2013, Hadfield orbited Earth 2,597 times and took nearly 45,000 photographs of Earth from the International Space Station. His Twitter stream of photos catapulted him to popularity — he now has more than a million followers. 

Hadfield compiled some of his favorite photographs in his new book "You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes."

In the book's introduction he writes about Earth: "You are here — we all are — for life. Let's get to know the place a little better." With these stunning images he captured of our planet, you can. 

This incredible image depicts clouds twisting into a clockwise, rotating vortex near Africa, Chile in South America, which Hadfield describes as a "a continent of repeating patterns and exaggerated contradictions." The distinct swirls form when currents in the cold Pacific Ocean combine with atmospheric winds. The vortex rotates clockwise because it's in the southern hemisphere.



"The human impulse to impose order on Nature is apparent everywhere in North America," Hadfield writes. Here, he shows a stretch of the Detroit River separating Detroit, Michigan on the right from Ontario, Canada on the left.

 



The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the largest saline lake in the western hemisphere. "No perspective is more radically different than the one you get when you leave the planet altogether and look back," Hadfield writes. And this is certainly true here, where you can see some of the saltiest parts of the lake in red where brine shrimp are raised and magnesium-chloride brine is extracted to produce magnesium metal.



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How 14 things that happened to you in childhood shape you as an adult

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Tons of research shows that our adult behavior stems from what we experienced as kids. 

If you're extremely sneaky or suffer from obesity, it's probably an issue you can trace back to your younger days.

To help you make connections between now and then, we've compiled 14 childhood experiences that shaped who you are today.

Vivian Giang contributed research to this story.

If your parents didn't let you make decisions, you might be codependent as an adult.

If you had a helicopter parent who didn't allow you to dress yourself or choose your own playmates and food, you may end up as a codependent adult, says mental health counselor Laura JJ Dessauer

As you get older, this means that you'll seek out relationships in which your partner has all the power and control.



If you were close with your dad, you can handle intimacy now.

If you had an emotional connection with your father as a child, you'll be able to enter a healthy, physically intimate relationship with a partner later in life.

"The research found a definitive connection between the quality of the father-child relationship and interpersonal relationships later in life,"said lead researcher Dr. Nurit Nahmani.



If your parents were super controlling, you might be a stubborn adult.

Stubbornness is a defense mechanism that children adopt to escape the will of their controlling parents. The children will also likely grow up to inherit this trait.



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13 ingenious real-estate tips from Zillow’s CEO (Z)

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Real-estate site Zillow has been collecting information about the residential real-estate market for a decade. It's learned a ton about how houses are priced, bought, and sold.

Now the company has taken what it's learned and put it into a book.

We got a copy of "Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate" by Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and chief economist Stan Humphries and scoured it for some of the most useful tips on buying and selling a home.

Buy a home near a Starbucks.

A Starbucks is a great indicator of a neighborhood that is undergoing gentrification, which means rising housing prices.

Zillow looked at a decade's worth of data on home prices versus Starbucks locations, and found an amazingly tight correlation. In the last 17 years, the average American home has appreciated 65%. But properties adjacent to a Starbucks have appreciated 96%. To check the data, it looked at houses near Dunkin Donuts, and found that Starbucks really is different. It also found that houses within a quarter mile of a Starbucks appreciated more in the last five years  (21%) than houses just slightly farther away (17%).



Buy a house right outside of the hip new neighborhood.

Another tactic is to look at neighborhoods that have recently been gentrified, with lots of restaurants, cafes, and parks. Then, don't buy a house there — those houses have already appreciated, and may be out of your price range anyway. Instead, buy a house in the next neighborhood over. 

This "halo effect" has been shown to work in a bunch of cities including New York, Charlotte, and Chicago.



Do NOT buy the worst house in a great neighborhood.

This is one of those real-estate aphorisms that turns out to be wrong. People buy a crummy fixer-upper on a nice street, fix it up, then try to sell it for a profit — but still less than every other house on the street.

But they don't get any bites. Why? Because people looking to live in that neighborhood are not even shopping at the discount prices that the fixer-uppers are asking. In fact, in these neighborhoods, the bottom 10% of houses have the worst chances of appreciating.

Instead, buy the right house in the right neighborhood. That's the most expensive neighborhood where you can afford a house that's not in the bottom 10%.



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It may be freezing out now but 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history — and it had devastating effects

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According to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history, which, for weather, starts in 1880.

The global temperature average has increased by 1.4 degrees F, which may not seem like a lot, but the effects of the increase are being seen and felt globally.

Droughts, wildfires, melting ice caps, and violent thunderstorms can be caused by heightened temperatures, and the wrath of these phenomena can be long lasting.

Water shortages in South America, raging wildfires in California, and shrinking glaciers in the Arctic are just some of the signs of the heat.

2014 saw record-breaking temperatures all over the world. In Europe alone, new record high temperatures were set in 14 countries, making 2014 the hottest year in Europe as a whole in history. Here, people sunbathe on the beach of Wannsee near to Berlin, July 20, 2014.

Source: The Conversation, EURO4M Climate Indicator Bulletin



Heat prevailed elsewhere in the world, too. Here, a woman transports a drum after filling it with free drinking water supplied by a municipal corporation water tanker at a slum on a hot summer day in New Delhi, June 16, 2014. Periods of extreme temperatures have led to thousands of deaths since the 1990s, largely in rural areas where basic infrastructure is poor. In 2014, it was reported that up to 100 people were dying a day because of the heat.

Source: The Times of India



And in Beijing, temperatures hit a record high of about 104 degrees F in May, the highest since 1951. The roasting conditions are exemplified by this man in an opened shirt walking along a street in Beijing, May 30, 2014.



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Here's the atrocious way some villages in the Himalayas treat girls who are menstruating

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Every month 14-year-old Uttara Saud leaves her family's home deep in the hills of the Himalayas to sleep by herself in a shed without windows or a door.

Here in the remote villages of Nepal, many believe that women who are menstruating are impure and bring bad luck.

A centuries-old tradition, called chaupadi, banishes them during their period, leaving them vulnerable to animal attacks, freezing temperatures, and other, more horrifying threats.

In February 2014, Reuters photographer Navesh Chitrakar visited Legudsen, a remote village in far western Nepal, to document the dangers of this practice.

In the isolated hills of Legudsen village, in the far western region of Nepal, Reuters photographer Navesh Chitrakar set out to document a tradition that threatens the lives of women and girls.



Each month, menstruating women are exiled from their homes and families, and forced to sleep in sheds, stables, or outhouses, often with little protection from the elements.



This ritual isolation, called chaupadi, stems from a Hindu belief that secretions from menstruation and childbirth are religiously "impure." Others fear that breaking the tradition would bring devastating bad luck, such as failing crops and dying livestock.



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These are the 9 best apps for couples

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Valentine's Day is just a few days away!

In preparation for the holiday, startup discovery platform Product Hunt put together a list of the best Valentine's Day apps and startups. We went through and picked out nine that are the best for couples.

Whether you live together or you're miles apart, these startups, websites, and apps will be perfect for you and your sweetie — not just on Valentine's Day, but every day. 

 

Avocado helps you keep in touch with your significant other — whether you live together or you're long distance.

Created by a couple of ex-Googlers, Avocado is intended to help couples stay closer and organize their lives together. In the same app you use for messaging your significant other, you can also share photos, make and cross off to-do lists together, have a shared calendar, and more.

The user experience is designed in a way that is supposed to imitate how you actually interact as a couple. The app is named Avocado because avocado trees can't self-pollinate, so they need another close by tree in order to bear fruit — and avocados grow in pairs. 



BloomThat will deliver gorgeous flowers in a jiff.

BloomThat is a two-year-old startup that lets you send flowers within a 90-minute window. The company's claim to fame is its "ridiculously fast" flower delivery service, which it operates in and around San Francisco and Los Angeles. If you're looking for something thoughtful to give your boo, BloomThat's got you covered: Flowers start at $35 with free delivery.

BloomThat's mobile app is super simple, so even bouquet-inept boyfriends can send beautiful flowers with a few taps. All you have to do is choose a pre-bundled flower arrangement, type in the information of the person who you want to receive your flowers, and pay with a credit card you upload into BloomThat's system.



Can't be with your significant other on Valentine's Day? Doughbies On-Demand delivers something sweet on your behalf.

If you can't be with the one you love on Valentine's Day, do the next-best thing for that person and send them some fresh-baked dessert. Touting itself as the "World's Largest Local Bakery,"Doughbies promises fresh-baked cookies in 20 minutes or less, from Monday through Friday, delivered between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m.

In a Q&A on Product Hunt, Doughbies co-founder Daniel Conway says his company competes against big-name cookie delivery places like Insomnia Cookies "on quality of cookie & service." Others on Product Hunt have backed up both parts of Conway's claim: The cookies are delicious, made in small batches by local bakers, and they'll get to you fast.

The only catch: the person you're sending cookies to has to be in San Francisco, where the 500 Startups accelerator alum company is located.



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13 cool New York City spots that even real New Yorkers probably don't know about

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Time flies: Google launched Maps ten years ago.

To celebrate, the company hooked us up with information about some NYC "insider destinations" that even long-time New York City residents might not know about.

Don't live in the city? Don't worry. Live vicariously by scoping each destination on Maps.

Midtown's Berlin Wall

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"In the small plaza on Madison Ave. are five slabs from the former Berlin Wall. One side is decorated by German artists Thierry Noir and Kiddy Citny, while the eastern side remains blank."


 



The MTA's undercover Brooklyn Brownstone

Where: 58 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn

Unassuming on a block of brownstones, there's a secret emergency subway exit that’s used to ventilate subway lines.



Crimson Beech, the only house in New York City designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright

Where: 48 Manor Ct, Staten Island

Wright designed the house, but died before it was completed.



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5 guys recreate the same picture every 5 years as a tribute to their friendship

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John "Wedge" Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John "Belves" Molony, and John "JD" Dickson have been friends since high school, bonded by the short Super 8 movies they would make together. "Our common interest of filmmaking bonded us over the years all the way into the early 1990s," Wardlaw told Business Insider recently.

In 1982, the five friends were spending the July Fourth weekend at Wardlaw's grandparents' summer cabin on Copco Lake in Northern California. While hanging on the back porch, Dickson decided to set up his camera and tripod and take a few photos. "When we got the film developed, we all really thought the photos were cool. I even enlarged one and it hung on my wall for years," says Wardlaw.

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The trip became an annual tradition, but it wasn't until five years later, in 1987, that the friends in the original picture were all together again at the cabin. They decided to re-create their beloved photo from the previous trip and brought it along to match.

1987 Copco Lake

In 1992, they found themselves at the cabin again, working on what would be their last film project together. As they sensed their lives moving in different directions, they decided to yet again re-create the photo. It was a colder day, so they wore T-shirts. "Little did we know this would become a trend as we got older," Wardlaw says.

It was then that Wardlaw suggested they continue taking the photo every five years.

1992 Copco Lake

Today, Wardlaw is an indie filmmaker and writer. Dickson runs a website about Santa Barbara and Molony is a wedding photographer, while Burney is an elementary-school teacher and Rumer is an engineer.

Wardlaw called five years "a nice increment.""Every year would be too hard," he says. He says they don't see each other enough these days but they do make an effort to see each other when they can.

1997 Copco Lake

The photo from 2002 is special to Wardlaw. "We returned to making a real vow to keep doing this forever and really took our time matching the original." 

Over the years, you can see the guys gain and lose weight, change and lose hair, and become less and more tan.

2002 Copco Lake

"It is a wonderful feeling when you have friends like this. Not just friends you know on Facebook or Twitter but real friends with history," says Wardlaw. "And it is really fun to be able to look at all the photos and watch us age together and know that we'll keep doing this as long as we possibly can, just to make sure we see each other and keep the friendship going."

2007 Copco Lake

Wardlaw says that the most recent year, 2012, was also special because it was just the five friends, solo. "No other friends or wives along on the trip. We couldn't believe we were still doing this after 30 years," he says.

2012 Copco Lake

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19 stunning pictures from the World Press photo contest

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The winners of the 58th World Press Photo Contest were announced Thursday in Amsterdam.  

The pictures, selected from 97,912 submissions, were awarded for incredible aesthetic beauty and news value.

The pictures were divided in eight major categories, and three winners were selected in each category. We have presented a selection of the best, and you can check the whole gallery here

World Press Photo of the year 2014: Mads Nissen, Denmark — Jon and Alex, a gay couple, during an intimate moment, St. Petersburg, Russia.



Portraits Singles, Gold Medal: Raphaela Rosella, Australia — Laurinda.



Daily Life Singles, Silver Medal: Åsa Sjöström, Sweden — Twin brothers Igor and Arthur celebrating their birthday, Moldova.



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See why more startups than ever are setting up shop on the beach in Los Angeles

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Not everyone is on board with the term "Silicon Beach," the name that's been given to Los Angeles' buzzing tech scene. "As a brand guy, I have an originality problem with it," Michael Dubin, cofounder and CEO of Venice-based Dollar Shave Club, told Business Insider. "It implies that what’s happening 'down here' is just our version of what’s happening 'up there.'"

On the other hand, ZipRecruiter cofounder and CEO Ian Siegel says: "I say sell the sizzle. Would you rather work at the beach or in a valley? Easy choice." Whether you buy into the moniker, Los Angeles has been a center for tech innovation for years. A host of successful ecommerce, fashion, and social-media startups have gotten their starts in sunny Southern California, reaping the benefits of plentiful venture capital and proximity to the entertainment capital of the world.

And though the boom has now spread to communities east of the 405 freeway — like Nasty Gal downtown and Maker Studios in Culver City — the beachfront communities of Venice and Santa Monica still hold a special draw for entrepreneurs.

"Every time we recruit someone, we put them up at the Shore Hotel [in Santa Monica]," Siegel says. "They stare out at the ocean, and then walk a block to our offices where again they can stare out at the ocean from just about every window. You take someone from the Midwest or East Coast and give them that experience ... let's just say we have a high close rate."

And with a mayor as supportive of innovation as Eric Garcetti, it's likely that trend will continue. During his inaugural speech, in 2013, Garcetti pledged to give Silicon Valley a "run for their bitcoin."

The neighboring beachfront communities of Venice and Santa Monica have long been a haven for edgy, artistic types. In the 1970s, the "Dogtown" section of Venice was the site of a renaissance in skating culture, chronicled in a 2001 documentary called "Dogtown and Z-Boys" and later in the film "Lords of Dogtown."



Much of the tourist action is centered on the Venice boardwalk, where signs advertising incense and henna tattoos signify the area's lasting hippie roots.



But if you walk just a bit farther down the block, you'll notice the fortress-like headquarters for secret-sharing app Whisper. The startup moved into the house last spring, leasing it from an unnamed owner who purchased it from actress Anjelica Huston for $11 million.

Click here to tour Whisper's headquarters »



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In thousands of years, here's what NYC and other American cities will look like underwater

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Sea-level rise is one of the most concerning consequences associated with global climate change, thanks to melting polar ice and thermal expansion caused by warming ocean waters — and we're already starting to see its effects on coastal communities around the world. 

The US Geological Survey estimates that if all the world's glaciers melted, sea level would rise by about 80 meters, or more than 260 feet. This scenario could be thousands of years in the future, but it would render many of the world's best-loved coastal cities unrecognizable.

Jeffrey Linn, a Seattle man with a background in geography and urban planning, has created a series of maps of major US cities based on this doomsday scenario. He used actual geographic data from the areas to make the maps as realistic as possible. 

Linn says his interest in the subject was sparked by the book "Always Coming Home," by Ursula Le Guin. 

"The novel is sort of a future anthropology of California's Napa Valley, and in it she looks into the future and sees the California Central Valley flooded by sea-level rise," Linn says. "Since then, I would often think about what would the world around us would look like once all the ice caps melted."

While this extreme amount of sea-level rise isn't expected to happen for millennia, Linn's cheeky names for the potential new landforms and bodies of water that emerge in his maps give often humorous insight into life in the cities of the future.

Linn has mapped eight US cities so far, and is currently working on mapping several locations in the UK. His maps, along with more information, can be viewed on his website. We've put together a slideshow of some of his work here.

Seattle was the first sea-level rise map Linn made, completed in December 2013. He was inspired to start the map by a blogger who writes under the name Burrito Justice. "He did a 200-foot sea-level rise map for San Francisco, and I was like, 'I have to do this for Seattle,'" Linn says.



The result is striking — after 240 feet of sea-level rise, Seattle is reduced to a collection of small islands, like these three, which emerged in the area near the place Seattle's iconic space needle stands today. (The needle, in this map, is sadly submerged.)



Linn uses open-source data to create most of the maps. He puts the data together using a mapping program called QGIS, and then assembles everything in Adobe Illustrator. He says the base cartography only takes him a few hours.



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US News: These cars are the best bang for the buck

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Everyone is looking for a great deal when stepping into the showroom of a car dealership. But getting a car that is a great value extends past the price you pay at the showroom. You have to consider the quality of the car, how much you'll pay, and how much it costs to operate the vehicle in the long run.

This is exactly what US News and World Report in creating a list of the best cars for the money. The publication took into consideration a car's performance, safety, comfort, and reliability, but it also used TrueCar.com data to determine the average cost of purchase. The five-year cost of ownership data came from Vincentric.

US News' list rates the best value in 21 vehicle categories, ranging from hybrids to heavy trucks. 

"With new cars selling at record prices, shopping for a car that meets both your budget and lifestyle is an overwhelming process," US News Best Cars managing editor Jamie Page Deaton said. "The 2015 Best Cars for the Money awards help car shoppers quickly identify models that are great values and a pleasure to own."

Honda Motor Company came away as the big winner. Its Honda and Acura brands took the top spot in six of the 21 categories. 

"In recent years, Honda has focused on providing more standard features in its Honda products and sportier performance for Acura models," Page Deaton said. "That focus has resulted in more praise from professional car critics. Consumers now have more reasons beyond value to buy a Honda or Acura."

Subcompact Cars: 2015 Honda Fit



Compact Cars: 2015 Volkswagen Golf



Hatchbacks: 2015 Honda Fit



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The fantastic life of billionaire investor Mike Ashley, Britain's answer to Howard Hughes

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Mike Ashley is one of Britain's most eccentric billionaires.

He is regularly depicted in the media as a beer-swilling, sport-fanatic version of the reclusive American airline magnate Howard Hughes. Although his companies are the subject of daily headlines, Ashley the person is still something of an enigma. He rarely gives interviews.

He grew up in humble bungalow in Burnham, Buckinghamshire. Now 50, Ashley turned his first shop (opened in 1981) into the Sports Direct apparel empire that has made him one of the richest people in the UK. He owns stakes in Newcastle United and Rangers FC. His personal fortune is estimated to be £3.75 ($5.7) billion.

He can also down a pint in less than 10 seconds, loves to party, gamble, and take his shirt off, and he uses a plastic shopping bag as a briefcase.

He may live in a mansion now but he grew up in a bungalow in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, like this one.



And this is where he allegedly lives now.

One eagle-eyed local called Jules has taken photos of what is believed to be Ashley's home in Totteridge, and published them on FlickrApparently, Ashley has a penchant for epic Christmas lighting at his North London village home.



He was described as a 'dedicated but average' student by his peers at Burnham Grammar School.



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The 26 hottest power couples on Wall Street

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In honor of Valentine's Day, we've decided to feature some of the hottest power couples on Wall Street. 

The range here is wide. We have fund managers who date well-known actresses. We have bankers who are married to attorneys and television anchors. We even have someone who is married to a princess.

We wish them all a Happy Valentine's Day.  

Princess Madeleine and hedge funder Chris O'Neill

Status: Married

Him: O'Neill is a partner and head of research at Noster Capital, a value investing hedge fund. He doesn't have a royal title. 

Her: She's a Swedish princess. 

Fun Fact: The couple has a daughter, Leonore, and they are expecting their second child this summer.



Socialite Pippa Middleton and stockbroker Nico Jackson

Status: Dating 

Her: She's the younger sister of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. The socialite is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and writes pieces for The Spectator and Waitrose Kitchen.

Him: He's a stockbroker for Deutsche Bank who recently moved to Switzerland for work.

Fun Fact: The couple is currently trying long distance with Pippa in England and Nico in Switzerland.  



Chelsea Clinton and hedge funder Marc Mezvinsky

Status: Married

Her: Chelsea is the daughter of President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. She has previously worked for Mckinsey & Co., Avenue Capital, and was a correspondent for NBC

Him: He's a partner at Eaglevale Partners LP. He has previously worked at Goldman Sachs and New York-based hedge fund G3 Capital. 

Fun Fact: The couple welcomed a baby girl, Charlotte, in September 2014.



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The founder of an online pet pharmacy company is selling his Miami mansion for $25 million

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Marc Puleo, the former CEO of online pet pharmacy PetMeds, has listed his massive Miami mansion for $25 million.

The 6,700-square-foot home, which previously belonged to Enrique Iglesias, has five bedrooms, a glass-beaded pool, and amazing ocean views.

Puleo bought the home from Iglesias for $7.85 million in 2004, but he's spent more than $4 million on renovations since then, the Wall Street Journal reports.  

In addition to some beautiful design features, the house also has a high-tech Crestron home automation system, a 16-zone custom sound system, and a network of 26 surveillance cameras.

Known as the "Villa Jasmine," the house is located on a waterfront property Miami Beach's Sunset Island 1.



As you pass through the gates, you'll notice the quality brick work and arched doorways.



The three-car garage is perfect for storing your sports car and boat.



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NBA POWER RANKINGS: Where every team stands going into the All-Star break

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The All-Star break is the NBA's lone chance to regroup before the run to the playoffs.

While LeBron's Cavs have surged in recent weeks, contenders like the Thunder, Bulls, Wizards, and Clippers are all struggling to get on track.

1. Golden State Warriors (previously: 1st)

Current record: 42-9 (1st in West)

Offensive ranking: 4th

Defensive ranking: 1st

One thing to know: They lost the anticipated first-place showdown to the Atlanta Hawks, and barely beat the Philadelphia 76ers and Minnesota Timberwolves going into the break. Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson are both active in the All-Star Weekend, but they could use a good rest in the following week.



2. Memphis Grizzlies (previously: 2nd)

Current record: 39-14 (2nd in West)

Offensive ranking: 11th

Defensive ranking: 5th

One thing to know: The Grizzlies have the third-best record in the NBA, but are only sending one player (Marc Gasol) to the All-Star Game — something other NBA players are noticing, too.



3. Atlanta Hawks (previously: 8th)

Current record: 43-11 (1st in East)

Offensive ranking: 6th

Defensive ranking: 6th

One thing to know: The Hawks have four All-Stars. No other team has more than two. That's mind-boggling.



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9 models to follow on Instagram during New York Fashion Week

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Karlie Kloss

New York Fashion Week has officially started. 

Even if you’re not into the clothes, it’s always fun to follow the models behind the scenes, and Instagram is the perfect place to get a glimpse into their lives. 

Whether you want style inspiration or just a better look at what really happens behind-the-scenes, here are the 9 best models to follow on Instagram during New York Fashion Week. 

The up-and-coming Sports Illustrated model Gigi Hadid made her Fashion Week debut only last year, but is expected to be the big star of this year's Fashion Week. In January, she was named the newest face of Maybelline.

A photo posted by Gigi Hadid (@gigihadid) on Jan 19, 2015 at 6:08pm PST

(@gigihadid, 1.8 million followers)



Victoria Secret angel Karlie Kloss has a great Instagram account filled with behind-the-scenes model photos and pictures with her closest friends.

A photo posted by @karliekloss on Dec 18, 2014 at 4:55pm PST

(@karliekloss, 1.9 million followers)



Cara Delevingne is great to follow anytime of the year. Delevingne, known for her envy-worthy eyebrows, posts the most outrageous pictures of herself and her many celebrity friends. Also, she genuinely seems like she is always having fun.

(@caradelevingne, 9.6 million followers)



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