September 28, 2007

Groundwater levels are dropping around China, where leaders face tough choices as cities, industry and farming compete for an unbalanced and finite water supply.

Sales of new homes dropped to the slowest pace in over seven years, foreshadowing further economic trouble ahead.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses is facing its toughest opposition yet.

Authorities unveiled 100 new questions that immigrants will have to study to become American citizens.

Iran’s president manages to upstage the Yankees, the Mets, the New York Philharmonic and even Fox New Channel’s Bill O’Reilly.

After their deflating loss last night, the Mets now have unwanted company atop the National League East.

President Bush ordered transportation officials to take steps to reduce delays in the nation’s airspace.

An odyssey up the coast features beer, blueberry pie and a 32-year-old mule.

An affidavit filed by an agent of the F.D.A. details the personal involvement of Jin Lei, the founder of one of China’s largest drug makers, in an illegal hormone distribution ring.

Shelburne Farms inn lies against a spectacular panorama of Lake Champlain and the Green and Adirondack Mountains.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was appointed to head the I.M.F., will inherit an organization struggling to find a purpose in a vastly changed financial world.

The agency does little to ensure the safety of people who participate in clinical trials, an investigator has found.