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Three men have been arrested for conspiring to hire a hit man to murder five Suffolk County residents in a quest for vengence, prosecutors said .

Resolving the global food crisis could cost as much as $30 billion a year and wealthier nations are doing little to help the developing world, United Nations officials said.

Stocks markets fell on Monday after a trio of Wall Street’s biggest banks were hit with a ratings downgrade, leaving investors worried that additional billion-dollar losses may be in the offing.

After a weekend fire destroyed part of the lot at Universal Studios, guides on the popular studio tour were working the disaster into their patter.

Oliver Perez allowed six runs in just one-third of an inning and the Mets never recovered.

A Uniondale man was arrested at his home Monday evening after he attacked another man with a steak knife, police said.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had accused the restaurant of “severe and pervasive” harassment of female, black and Hispanic employees.

A Chinese real estate company has signed a deal to lease space in the Freedom Tower, making it the first private company to agree to occupy the future skyscraper.

James Tagliaferri’s St. Thomas Island-based asset-management company is the real money behind Big Brown and International Equine Acquisitions Holdings.

A couple of decades after boutique hotels were first launched, the concept has become so successful that hoteliers across the industry are rushing to develop boutique brands.

The agreement, which takes effect next January for new PCs in the United States and Canada, displaces a similar one Hewlett-Packard has with Yahoo.

The lawsuit against Yahoo’s board over its rebuff of Microsoft’s $47.5 billion buyout bid was made public by a judge who said that Yahoo had not shown good reason to keep it confidential.

Major League Baseball’s effort to maintain exclusive control of its players’ statistics failed on Monday.

China Unicom, a cellphone service provider, agreed to sell a wireless network to the country’s largest fixed-line operator and buy a fixed-line company of its own.

The network equipment maker agreed to pay $160 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit over the backdating of stock options, the company said in a statement.

Bud Selig’s bout with skin cancer has led to Major League Baseball’s $10 million donation to an outfit, which will stage an unprecedented collaboration among the major networks for a fund-raiser to battle the disease.

News about airlines and airports.

Traveling with pets can be an adventure. But not always because of the pets.

Two of Dow Chemical’s top executives worked on a $50 billion takeover of their company last year, behind the backs of the company’s chief executive and board.