Albela Rahi

Think about all the money you spend insuring your house, car, health, and life. If you’re like most people, it’s thousands of dollars. Now think about how much time you spend making sure you’re getting the biggest bang for your buck. If you’re like most people, it’s measured...

Low-income drivers are routinely charged higher auto insurance premiums than well-heeled car owners. But why should the poor pay a premium when it comes to premiums? Is the system inherently unfair? Or are there valid reasons why poor drivers tend to represent bigger risks for insurer...

“Insurance is meant to protect against the really big stuff that rains down on you,” says Fair Oaks, California, insurance agent Alan Canton. But Canton and other agents know that not all insurance policies are created equal. Here are six policies they say aren’t worth the money...

When shopping for car insurance, it's not just your driving record that determines your annual premium. The type of car you drive is also a big factor-and some cars are much more expensive to insure than others.

With a global obesity epidemic sweeping the nation and quickly replacing tobacco as the biggest cause of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer losing weight is more important that ever.

A month ago, we switched from party-goer to gym-goer, from festive cheer to mid-winter resolve. But by now, you may be having a post-holiday showdown with the bathroom scale, and the results are disappointing. Or you’re feeling sluggish and lackluster after weeks of snowed-in cabin ...

Experts have found that the more good food in one's diet, the more weight one loses over the long term. Their study of almost 120,000 people, five-sixths of whom were women, discovered that extra helpings of yoghurt, nuts, fruit, whole grains and vegetables were all linked to weight l...

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s amicable settlement is bad news for voyeurs hoping for juicy gossip and public mudslinging.

At Facebook's F8 developers Conference in San Francisco last September, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the site's new page motif, Timeline. F8 has played host to most of Facebook's biggest announcements--new profiles, the Like button for websites, Graph API--but this one had the usual...

Sometime in the next few weeks, Facebook will officially log its 500 millionth active citizen. If the website were granted terra firma, it would be the world's third largest country by population, two-thirds bigger than the U.S. More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only...

If you’re reading this piece, published on a tech blog, you’re probably sick of reading about the looming Timeline takeover.

Since the winter of 2011, Facebook has been slowly rolling out its new profile look to the nearly one billion people who use the world’s largest social network.

(SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.) — In this sweltering Southern California city, officials tried to keep the budget in check by selling assets, cutting spending and asking public employees to take a hit as tax revenues dwindled.