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SNIP The Grammy Award-winning singer just set a Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to release an album of new material. "Love for Sale," a collaboration with Lady Gaga, was released on Oct. 1, and at the time, Bennett was 95 years and 60 days old, according to Guinness. Gaga, 35, said that despite their 60-year age difference, she finds inspiration performing alongside the senior crooner.

AURORA, Illinois -- A woman was swept off her feet and then taken to the cleaners, losing $250,000. She thought she was falling in love but instead, was betrayed. The FBI calls it the confidence scam or the romance scam, and said it consistently ranks in the top three online schemes, preying on people who are looking for companionship and love. But before you know it, you've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, just like Laura Bockus. "How could you do this to somebody. I mean, seriously, how could you sleep at night doing this to someone," she wondered. Bockus...

Cheers, tears as prostitution bill passes 26 June 2003 Parliament erupted in cheers last night, as a landmark law to decriminalise prostitution passed by a single vote. Christchurch MP Tim Barnett's Prostitution Reform Act will become law next Monday and soliciting for sex and brothelkeeping will no longer be illegal in New Zealand from that day. In one of the closest votes in Parliament's history, the Act passed 60-59, on the abstention of Labour's Muslim MP Ashraf Choudhary. Had Mr Choudhary, who opposed the bill, not abstained the bill would have fallen because a 60-60 tie is counted as a...

<p>Whoever said money can't buy love has yet to meet high-end dating consultants.</p> <p>These professional matchmakers have built businesses on pairing beautiful people from the power scene in cities all over the country, charging clients up to $15,000 to find Mr. or Mrs. Right.</p>