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For years, a Japanese inventor has argued that that most basic element of car designs is dangerously flawed.

Detroit’s particular brand of civic and economic decay has also drawn something unexpected: a small but well-publicized movement of artists.

Three brothers from one family, and a sister and two brothers from another, were on a picnic.

An employee summoned for a disciplinary hearing opened fire at a beer distributor in Manchester and died at the scene.

Engineers began pumping heavy drilling mud into BP’s stricken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in hopes of sealing it for good.

Barnes & Noble, the giant bookstore chain, said its board was considering a sale of the company, possibly to an investor group led by its chairman and founder, Leonard Riggio.

The vote by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission paves the way for the building of an Islamic center and mosque close to ground zero.

The slow fouling of Newtown Creek lacks the drama of the gulf spill, but its impact has been profound. Advocates are hoping for Superfund designation.

The New Start arms control treaty with Russia will not be considered until the fall, during campaign season.

Like much of the Italian economy, the Carlo Barbera factory is struggling, for reasons that academics say reveal much about what ails Italy.

President Obama is stepping up his involvement in the fight to preserve the Democratic Party’s control of Congress, but he may stay away from some competitive districts.

On Chelsea Clinton’s wedding day, even as her parents sought to shroud the event in secrecy, residents and onlookers decided they were going to celebrate along with them.

Wrongly identified as Neda Agha-Soltan, whose death in 2009 became a symbol for the opposition, Zahra Soltani fled Iran.

Criminals are discovering there is money to be made in faking the more ordinary — like $295 Kooba bags and $140 Ugg boots.

Among patients tested for strokes with a complex type of brain scan, radiation overdoses were more widespread than previously known, a New York Times examination has found.

The Obama administration is starting to count more heavily on hunting down insurgents and less on winning over civilians.

Government officials are pleading for international aid as water levels in dams continue to rise.

India is building a tunnel to bypass the dangerous Rohtang Pass as part of a plan to match China’s power.

By taking up Krav Maga, children can learn to fend off potential abductors with tactics used by the Israel Defense Forces.

The Coast Guard approved requests to use dispersants despite an Environmental Protection Agency rule that they be used rarely, a Congressional analysis said.