Topic: New York

When Hong Kong businessman Mr. He paid a 35,000 pound ($56,000) deposit on a four-bedroom apartment in Britain, he believed it was a 40-minute walk from central London, his lawyer says. In fact it was a 40-minute journey by high-speed train.

Demand for the world's priciest houses is likely to cool this year after two years of strong growth, as concerns over Europe's debt crisis, the health of the global economy and governments price cooling measures in Asia dissuade buyers, research showed.

Many jobs that let reserved types work in solitude offer poor salaries and unchallenging work. But there are other careers that are stimulating, well-paying and require little human contact. Read ahead to see some of the best jobs in the U.S. for loners.

The invasion of the super-rich has a social impact, diluting what is referred to as the “civic” quality of the cities they have adopted as their playgrounds.

One World Trade Center, built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday.

What would professional sports be without trash talking, grudges, beefs and rivalries? For some, feuds are as integral to spectator sports as the game itself. Read ahead to see which recent sports feuds have been exciting, thrilling and explosive.

US exports are almost certain to hit a record high in 2012, remaining one of the anchors of the nation’s economic recovery.  Click ahead to see the list of busiest land, water and air trade hubs.

Wonder no more about the homes seen in popular network television dramas and sitcoms, as well as reality homes you see on MTV and Oxygen.

What is the deal with airport food? To find some of the most praised restaurants, TripAdvisor looked at the busiest U.S. airports and user-generated reviews to see which ones were rated the best by the general flying public.

CNBC.com ranked the ten places in the U.S. that showed the most job growth between February 2011 and February 2012. Catherine Varner, economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, offered insight into what the numbers mean.

This collection features the habitations of performers from rock to pop and beyond. We’ve got two glamorous homes associated with 'American Idol,' and two not-to-be-believed properties in New York.

The real estate website Trulia recently released its Winter 2012 Metro Movers report, which examines all property searches made by homebuyers and renters to see where they hope to buy and rent next.  What follows are 10 desirable neighborhoods that tend to fly under the radar in their major American cities.

Many factors can make a housing rental market difficult to negotiate. But chief among potentially problematic rental factors is the cost. To get an indication of how stretched renters are in each market, the data team at John Burns Real Estate Consulting looked at the rent-to-income ratios in 40 major U.S. cities.

When lead-footed drivers get snagged and ticketed, their downfall might have been passing a speed trap where a cop was using radar or a laser, or maybe the driver passed a speed camera. However, as technology improves traffic enforcement, it is also progressing on the side of the speeder. Now joining the radar detector is crowd-sourced reporting of speed traps, a virtual warning system using the Internet and a mobile app. This list of the 10 most -active cities for speed traps was compiled by Trapster.com, a community platform that is accessed online and via smartphone app and alerts drivers to traps, hazards and other traffic issues nearby.

New York police and sanitation workers cleared Zuccotti Park, where protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement have been camped for nearly two months, in the early morning hours of Tuesday.