While Lehman’s collapse may have been the biggest to date, it’s not the first company to file for bankruptcy protection after making unwise–or illegal–investments. Here’s a look at some earlier collapses.

Given that people looking at wedding registries are browsing on a very specific mission, it is not surprising that most retailers have a higher registry purchase rate than their general purchase rate, which is an average of 5% of visitors.

There’s no need to rehearse the latest round of bleak economic news once again. Now that it’s widely agreed that large parts of the world are in a recession, it’s time to focus our efforts on our core constituency: the web workers. Economic contract

Few places in the country are as rich in history as Philadelphia, where the city's most famous landmarks tell the story of the founding of the United States. Here's a look at some of them

for anyone with a taste for adventure, the holiday could be an ideal time for a sweet history lesson, as a remarkable number of bygone confections can still be bought or made. For instance, "most medieval sweets are still around in some form or another,"

Denmark has done what other countries only dream of doing: achieved energy independence. While Europe's overall energy imports rose 2.4% in 2006, Denmark's energy imports fell 8%.

To most people a Swiss Bank account is something for the super rich, crooks, dishonest government officials or just a good way to hide assets.

After a closer examination of a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles

Hardly a day goes by, it seems, without some announcement of a new “cloud computing” offering or initiative. And Friday is no exception with I.B.M. declaring it plans to build a $360-million data center in North Carolina and another big one in Tokyo,

The same new moon that sets up the total solar eclipse Aug. 1 will create dark night-sky conditions for stargazing, making this a great time to check out the beautiful midsummer Milky Way.