European stock markets gained in early trade Wednesday ahead of second 3-year long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) by the European Central Bank.
AP stated that around 20,000 body parts were recovered from the World Trade Center that was struck by a hijacked plane nearly eleven years ago. Most of the remains were sent to Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island the following year. Some remains of those who died when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon site were buried at Arlington National Cemetery in 2012.
The New York Times has covered the most monumental events in modern history--the moon landing, JFK's assassination and beyond--which is why it makes sense that the paper has started a Tumblr page to host many of its unused photos. Under the moniker The Lively Morgue, the New York Times photography department will be posting unpublished photos onto the Tumblog. The site launched this Monday, and its editors plan to post photos several times a week.
KLM's new ‘Meet & Seat’ Program to make flying a more social experience by allowing passengers to choose their own seatmates based on social media profiles.
Market participants are seemingly expecting European banks to take up a massive amount of euro over the next 24 hours, as the European Central Bank offers them a second helping of ultra-low cost loans. The banks themselves, not so much.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday hit Republican presidential challengers hard during a speech at the United Auto Workers conference in Washington, most notably lashing out at former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for his views on the auto bailout.
An independent panel released a report Tuesday indicating that the U.S. Military disposed of some 9/11 victim remains at a landfill in the aftermath of the 2001 terror attack, and New Yorkers are beginning to react to the scandal.
U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, saying they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss.
Researchers at IBM (NYSE: IBM), the No. 2 computer services company, have passed “thresholds” since Jan. 2 whose promise could yield quantum computers “within our lifetime,” IBM’s Manager of Physics of information said.
A star-studded quartet of architecture critics discussed their craft on Monday night at the AIANY’s Center for Architecture in Manhattan, arguing for the vitality of buildings in modern life and the impact of criticism in a changing world.
Most have anointed the Nets as the favorite to land Dwight Howard, but the Magic might not be interested in Brook Lopez.
Apple finally announced on Tuesday that it will unveil its next-generation iPad -- the iPad 3 -- on Wednesday, March 7 in San Francisco. To celebrate the announcement, San Francisco-based 3D animation and design firm Aatma Studio conjured up a concept video of what the iPad 3 may look and feel like.
Many of the passengers on Flight 5124 feared for their lives Monday night when their plane made an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Yahoo doesn't like Facebook anymore. The search engine has defriended the social networking giant and threatened to sue over patents that Facebook has been using without paying the necessary licensing fees. Yahoo set a precedent for internet company patent claims after successfully suing Google in 2004.
The Costa Allegra fire -- which has stranded 1,000 in the Indian Ocean near Seychelles -- threatens to hurt a cruise ship industry that is already suffering from the Costa Concordia catastrophe.
Teams could try to add Reggie Wayne to entice Peyton Manning.
Apple apps on the iPhone, iPad and iTouch have been attacked for stealing users' contact info, and now it's been discovered they've even had access to users' photos. Given the Feb. 28 Apple announcement about a March 7 press conference, potential iPad 3 buyers may want to know how this latest controversy will affect Apple's newest product launch. There's a loophole that's been discovered for when people give an app permission to access location information.
Designers at Milan Fashion Week stitched velvet roses and gilded threads on embroidered winter fabrics seeking to lure the kinds of consumers who can still afford to splash out on luxury clothes during a period of financial austerity across Europe.
Less than three days after U.S. airlines raised fares for the third time this year, the air travel providers are rolling back increases, market trackers are saying. The roll-backs -- which mean airliners, will have to eat up most of the recent jet fuel cost increases -- result from major industry player Southwest Airlines' unwillingness to follow peers in hiking ticket prices.
A bus driver was acquitted of homicide Tuesday in the deaths of four passengers killed in 2010 when his Megabus crashed into an overpass in upstate in New York, The Associated Press reported.
A trade rumor has Dwight Howard going to the Nets, Brook Lopez going to the Warriors and Monta Ellis going to the Magic.
The Nets reportedly remain Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard's favored destination to play elsewhere, especially after what Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant recently said about him, on top of the Magic's rejection of a trade for Howard involving Lakers center Andrew Bynum.