You know when you get a seat on an airplane that's closer to the door and it's awesome when you're deboarding? American Airlines has now named those seats "Express Seats" and will charge you more money for them. Happy flying.

Iceland's Supreme Court, citing DNA evidence from the exhumed body of chess champion Bobby Fischer, ruled he is not the father of a 9-year-old Filipino girl named Jinky Young. Fishcer died in 2008, leaving an estimated $2 million behind. [BBC]

Almost 200 years ago, Haiti (Saint-Dominigue) had to pay the equivalent of nearly €17 billion to France for an "independence debt" because of the money France lost after the slave revolt. Some people want France to pay it back.

Are you a rich parent with a stupid kid? Fear not! There's a new website to help your spawn understand how filthy rich they really are, and how to manage their trust fund before blowing it in Saint-Tropez.

Compensation consultant Johnson Associates released a report saying Wall Street bonuses will likely rise this year, some as much as 15 percent, thanks to "evolving legislation" in Washington and the financial sector's recession-busting awesomeness. Here's to a job well done!

TV Guide released a list of television's top earners this week, and the truth about our favorite stars' incomes can be shocking. From Dramas to Sitcoms, Late Night to News, a list of the top earners for each category, inside!

Charles Mudede, a blogger for the The Stranger, the alternative weekly that serves cutesy raintown Seattle, wrote a post today about people who were robbed by a fraud i-banker and were understandably upset about it. And his post is insane?

Here's a fun list of the top-earning actors on TV. Hugh Laurie makes $400,000/episode!

A study has compiled a list of the top college majors that lead to low pay. Shockingly, if you major in art or religion or social work, you will never make any money ever and die a penniless, miserable idealist.

Sure, Sandra Bullock had an awful year in the press what with her cheating husband and all. But she raked in $56 million last year for starring in The Proposal and The Blind Side. Maybe that makes up for it?

Your money: Maybe not as safe as you think. Security expert Barnaby Jack showed off three different ways to hack an ATM last week, including one particularly flashy method that left the machine playing music and spitting out twenties.

Big news day for BP! Besides paying CEO Tony Hayward nearly $1 million a year to go away, the company also announced that it is setting aside a $32.2 billion fund for the Gulf of Mexico cleanup effort. [BBC]

The poor orange hair monster from Bravo's Real Housewives of New Jersey is bankrupt. She's selling her mansion, and now basically everything she and her husband own, including their freaking wedding rings, is being auctioned off. Lots of pics below.

Residents of Bell, California are upset that their city's administrators make annual salaries that don't exactly scream "public servant." For instance, City Manager Robert Rizzo: $787,637. And Police Chief Randy Adams: $457,000. They have agreed to resign. [LAT]

Have you ever wondered what the salary was for a television writer for, say, a popular scripted show like The Simpsons? If so, then it's your lucky day—and the number may shock you. Inside, video of the answer.

Congratulations to Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam! The graduate student's design for a new Indian rupee symbol, which beat out 3,000 others, was approved by India's cabinet on Thursday. The symbol combines the Roman "R" with the Devanagari "Ra." [Reuters]

Before his humble blue-hued space opera, poor James Cameron was rattling a tin cup around, dancing for nickels to buy sweet, sweet sangawiches. But now he's rich as a king! The director stands to make nearly half-a-billion bones from Avatar.

[Alex Mupondi hangs one dollar notes on a drying line after washing them in Harare, Zimbabwe. Singles last years in Zimbabwe, which recently declared the U.S. dollar legal tender, and need to be laundered, literally. Photo via AP.]

So, the folks at Gothamist got an interesting email (and video) today. According to the anonymous letter, there is $10,000 in cash (US Mint $1 coins, to be exact) buried somewhere in NYC right this second. Details are inside.

A Texas debt collection company had a unique style for reminder voicemails to one black customer. "This is your motherfucking wake-up call you little lazy ass bitch. Get your motherfucking nigger ass up and go pick some motherfucking cotton fields."