December 25, 2011

A rare glimpse of the Empire State Building’s balance sheet illustrates how observatories have become moneymakers for tall office buildings.

Facing political hostility and lacking adequate financing, scientists are struggling to report on the causes of a concentrated span of extreme weather in the United States.

Let’s give Tom Coughlin, the old curmudgeon, the credit he deserves after he beat Rex Ryan’s Jets and after he sustained a leg injury on the sideline.

New York officials welcomed a legal opinion removing a big obstacle for states that want to sanction Internet gaming to help fix their budget deficits.

A series of Christmas Day church bombings, in which 25 people died, appeared to be a coordinated assault by Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect with suspected training links to Al Qaeda.

Scholars are trying to recover the literary history of word processing, one casual deletion and trashed document at a time, starting with writers like Stephen King and Frank Herbert.

Harvey Araton writes about the 1970s New York Knicks with reverence in “When the Garden Was Eden,” but Scott Raab is comically bloody minded in “The Whore of Akron,” a hate later to LeBron James.

A lawsuit filed this summer could answer the growing question of whether a company can claim ownership of an employee’s social media account.

In the final days of 2011, ticket sales in North America are running about $500 million behind last year, prompting studios to wonder what went wrong.

Jets Coach Rex Ryan and Giants running back Brandon Jacobs exchanged harsh words as the teams shook hands after the Giants’ victory.

Though Brazil’s biggest bank may not be a household name on Wall Street, its attractions haven’t escaped investors. Itaú Unibanco may scour the globe for acquisitions next year.

Economic reports will include the Case-Shiller home price index for October, consumer confidence for December, weekly jobless claims, and pending home sales for November