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For Cyber-Monday, SoHo fashionistas and fashionisters looking for environmentally friendly, socially responsible clothing, there's a slew of hot online stores to check out -- and even a brick-and-mortar one in downtown Manhattan!

Once again, eating a diet based on fish, legumes, vegetables and moderate amounts of alcohol is linked to lower chances of dying from a heart attack, stroke or other vascular events, according to a new study of New York City residents.

Nassau County has a New Year’s gift for 100,000 daily passengers on L.I. Bus: it’s going French, having been sold to France’s Veolia Environment SA, whose transportation unit operates many other U.S. systems.

I had just been chatting, over a ridiculously expensive turkey sandwich that Monday (right before Thanksgiving, what was I thinking?), about the declining fortunes of the once-great American Empire. But enough, for the moment, about me, first let's see what Columbia's Herbert J. Gans, emeritus professor of sociology, had to say about superfluous jobs in his recent New York Times Op-Ed piece--and whether what he astutely observed could lead, within the century, to the breakup of th...

This year has been one of innovations and even revolutions in the gaming industry, one that has paved the way for the future. Big-name titles came and went, and a select few have become immortals in their own right. Check out some of the best games of 2011.

The year 2011 saw the various sequels of TV shows as well as new series entertaining the home audience. Following are our top 10 TV shows of 2011.

History will remember 2011 as the year of the popular uprising. The common man is creating history in different corners of the world. What else do the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests, the anti-austerity protests in Greece and Spain, and the anti-corruption campaign in India herald?

Jehane Noujaim -- director of Control Room, a 2004 documentary about Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera -- was arrested and later released after participating in a protest in Egypt, according to multiple reports on Twitter.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have broken their Twitter silence in the spirit of the holiday season.

Tom Wicker, the New York Times reporter who covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for the paper before moving on to become the Times' Washington bureau chief and a columnist for 25 years, died at his Rochester, Vermont, home on Friday, the Times reports.

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have been camped in front of Los Angeles' City Hall for nearly two months will be evicted on Monday, city officials said on Friday.

As the holidays approach, there are numerous things to dread: long hours spent in airports, seasonal weight gain, and searching for gifts for everyone on your list.

Violent confrontations between police and protesters at two University of California campuses have drawn a new cadre of students into the Occupy Wall Street movement and unleashed what some historians call the biggest surge in campus activism since the 1960s.

Exchange operator CME Group Inc. fined Infinium Capital Management, a high-frequency trading firm with offices in Chicago, London, and New York, a total of $850,000 for three separate computer malfunctions that rattled futures markets in 2009 and 2010.

There's not much to be thankful for if you were working on Wall Street this week. Stocks tumbled for the seventh session in a row, helping push the Standard & Poor's 500 down 4.7 percent.

A Staten Island family has been awarded $1 million after learning that their deceased son's brain was on display at the Staten Island Mortuary.

A raging fire in Brooklyn at 12:17 p.m. yesterday put five into the hospital--all in critical condition, and rushed to New York Presbyterian Cornell Weill Medical Center.

Stocks posted seven straight sessions of losses on Friday, ending the worst week in two months, as the lack of a credible solution to Europe's debt crisis kept investors away from risky assets.

A Very Gaga Thanksgiving was a glorious holiday special that showed a subdued and charming side of Ms. Lady Gaga.

With a minimal 2 per cent increase in established businesses and a persistent rate of opportunity-driven ventures, the entrepreneurial scenario of the United States was still healthier than rest of the world in 2010.

Reputed mafia boss Salvatore Montagna, 40, was found murdered on Thursday outside of Montreal. His body was found in the Assomption River in Charlemagne, northeast of the city.