A light sentence handed down on Friday for a former top UBS private banker who became a U.S. government informant on wealthy American tax cheats ramps up pressure on the Swiss banking industry.
Lady Gaga's former New York City apartment is up for rent. The small one bedroom at 176 Stanton St. on the Lower East Side was home to the pop star when she was known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta before she rose to fame.
Wall Street is in for a volatile week as escalating problems in Europe's debt crisis continue to keep investors on their toes. With light trading volume expected due to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, intraday swings are likely to be wide and frequent.
Veteran MC Heavy D received a star-studded sendoff at his funeral service held on Friday at Grace Baptist Church of Mount Vernon, N.Y., his hometown.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has promoted 261 employees to managing director positions, according to an internal memo sent this week. It is the lowest number since 259 were promoted to similar positions in 2008.
Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay $315 million to settle a class action filed against it on behalf of investors in 18 mortgage-backed securities trusts, according to Reuters.
The Pennsylvania charity, Second Mile, founded by former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, has decided to fold, following the Penn State sex scandal.
Twenty-eight individuals have been charged in two indictments on 172 counts including enterprise corruption, conspiracy, and grand larceny, among other felony charges in a three state credit card theft ring.
In the wake of the international Day of Action, the quandary that faces Occupy Wall Street--and by default the rest of the world--is, what exactly comes next?
More than 150,000 New York City public school students could be taking public transit to school for the first time if the local school bus union follows through on a plan to strike immediately.
Unemployment has risen to 8.8% in New York City.
Thanksgiving 2011 is less than a week away, but it is never too late to make plans. We have put together a guide of events, restaurants and volunteer opportunities for the holiday:
Dance therapy, a field expected to grow 15 percent by 2018, uses the body's movement as a door to mental and physical health.
Gold inched up on Friday was still on track for its biggest weekly loss since September as euro zone debt contagion worries spooked investors.
Police departments are gearing up with more non-lethal weapon choices than ever before.
A Kardashian boycott petition called No More Kardashian has garnered 133, 499 signatures as of Thursday afternoon, according to GoPetition.com. The preamble of the petition reads “We are respectfully requesting that your network [E!] find other shows to air. ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ is just not viewing that we the public, would like to see from your network. Enough is enough.”
A Kardashian boycott petition called No More Kardashian has garnered 133, 499 signatures as of Thursday afternoon, according to GoPetition.com. The preamble of the petition reads “We are respectfully requesting that your network [E!] find other shows to air. ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ is just not viewing that we the public, would like to see from your network. Enough is enough.”
Right now, men are en vogue. They are fashion's new darling. It's true. All one must do is glance around the streets of New York, Paris, Tokyo, or Milan to see that men are taking fashion seriously.
Veteran talk show host Regis Philbin on Friday ended his run on the popular television program Live! with well-wishers including Mayor Michael Bloomberg stopping by to pay tribute to his nearly three decades on the daily show.
Georgios Karatzaferis has repeatedly made derogatory comments about the Jews and denied the Holocaust.
Williamsburg and Greenpoint have the most garbage trucks roaming the neighborhood of any in New York City.
The 2012 New York City Michelin guide has been released, noting sevenNew York restaurants as exceptional.