Trends related to our homes and our food are changing.  Here is the 2nd part of an iVillage discussion with three home and food experts that will surely keep us buzzing about next year.

Hacienda Napoles was Pablo Escobar’s pleasure palace, a 5,500-acre estate in Columbia where the notorious drug lord held court over million-dollar cocaine deals, parties with underage girls and visits by shadowy men of power.  That was 15 years ago.

Seven years after the U.S. government moved to take the bald eagle off the endangered species list, the Bush administration intends to complete the step by February, prodded by a frustrated libertarian property owner in Minnesota.

Toyota will soon overtake General Motors as the world’s No. 1 car maker. The company said it expects to produce 9.42 million vehicles worldwide in 2007.

The Chinese government is determined to modernize the agricultural industry and will invest considerably more money in their vast rural areas.

Below are a series of amazing aerial views showing Muslims circling the Kaaba inside and outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca on December 24, 2006. Around 1.5 million Muslims from around the world arrived in Saudi Arabia for the haj pilgrimage.

Drunken-driving deaths declined slightly across the nation in 2005, and the rate of drunken-driving deaths fell in 23 states last year, transportation officials said Friday.