SANTIAGO, Chile — From outside, there is no sign that the century-old building where Cecilia Painaqueo lived with her four children was damaged by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. But inside her second-floor apartment, the bedroom wal... Read more

WHAT: A four-bedroom, two full- and two half-bath contemporary, with an attached office HOW MUCH: $499,900 SIZE: 2,300 square feet PER SQUARE FOOT: $217 SETTING: This house is on a tree-lined stretch of a two-lane road in Wallingford, an unincorp... Read more

   NEWTON, Mass. — Setti Warren was a toddler out with his mother one day in the 1970s when white teenagers hurled rocks and racial epithets their way, prompting his outraged father to call City Hall. Almost four decades later, Mr. War... Read more

We don't know if he has even been buried yet but already the first Michael Jackson tribute biography is bound and ready to go.Harper Collins is one of 15 publishers racing to get their book onto the shelves first.A printers in Somerset began running 110,000... Read more

China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, have surpassed $2 trillion (£1.2tn), the country's central bank has said.Currency reserves rose 17.8% from June 2008 to a record $2.13tn. Its currency stockpile is twice the size of Japan's - t... Read more