New York Times News Service

A thousand dollars, or even $500, can go a long way toward transforming a room -- and your attitude toward your home. Whether it's contemporary lamp shades or new doors,...

It's not too late to plan a trip to the Beijing Olympics. Sure, more than a million visitors are expected to visit during the Summer Games this August, and most...

The U.S. military is developing a plan to send about 100 American trainers to work with a Pakistani paramilitary force in the fight against Al Qaeda and other extremist groups...

Although Francisco Velazquez, a 14-year-old freshman with spiky hair and sunglasses, qualifies for a free lunch at Balboa High School here, he was not eating. He scanned a table full...

Mike Smith, the lead singer of The Dave Clark Five, died Thursday outside London, less than two weeks before the band is to be inducted into the Rock and Roll...

Once little more than a speed trap 25 miles northeast of Dallas, this town started to boom about a year ago, as turreted stone castlettes and modest brick bungalows began...

When Jacqueline Brown and her husband, Gavin Friedman, were in their early 30s, they lived in a condominium in Santa Monica, Calif., with a black leather IKEA couch Friedman had...

Dr. Ernst R. Jaffe, a groundbreaking hematologist who helped reveal the workings of a hereditary disorder that impairs red blood cells' ability to transport oxygen, died Feb. 16 in Port...

Buddy Miles, the drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys and a hitmaker under his own name with the song "Them Changes," died Tuesday at his home in Austin, Texas....

The chateau's walled courtyard under the gracefully decaying 15th Century tower, and the irregular pond, stone-lined and shaped roughly like a kidney, caught Haiyan Cheng's eye. "The Chinese connected with...