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BEIJING — In little more than 100 days, China will open its arms to a deluge of foreigners, many of whom will be pleasantly surprised to find a dizzying array of designer boutiques and painfully hip martini bars that divert ... [full story]

FRANKFURT Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Audio Slide Show A Dozen From Frankfurt Slide Show Dream Machines in Frankfurt Related Wheels: Best of the Wurst in Frankfurt (September 12, 2007) Wheels: Frankfurt Auto ShowA team of New York Times contributors present news ... [full story]

FOR its large S.U.V.’s — and later this year, for full-size pickups — General Motors needed a hybrid system that would save fuel without sacrificing the hauling, towing and highway performance that endears these trucks to customers. Skip to ... [full story]

When times were sunny, banks promised scores of companies money for a rainy day. Now that day is here — and the banks, hard pressed themselves, are worried they will have to keep their promises. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

Correction Appended IT is now hidden under renovation tarps, but in 1877, when the chunky cast-iron B. Altman department store opened on Sixth Avenue at 19th Street, it played a major part in attracting retailers like Siegel-Cooper to this stretch ... [full story]

Donald R. Diamond, a wealthy Arizona real estate developer, was racing to snap up a stretch of virgin California coast freed by the closing of an Army base a decade ago when he turned to an old friend, Senator John ... [full story]

THEY are a community without name, strewn like autumn leaves across four states, 42 counties and 838 towns. Some are rich, some poor, and many somewhere in between. In truth, these people have little in common except their love of ... [full story]

A few days after coming to terms with Thomson Safari, whose guides would escort me to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, I received an e-mail detailing the items I might want to bring along. The suggestions ranged from the sensible ... [full story]

FOR video razzle-dazzle, it's hard to beat the million mansion of the Florida concrete multimillionaire Bill Williams, in Naples. The slickest piece of engineering in the home is most likely the 32-inch Samsung LCD screen in the ... [full story]

For his second film, Judd Apatow chose locations that gave him a chance at making it home to Pacific Palisades in time for dinner. That meant much of "Knocked Up," Apatow's follow-up to "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," was shot in the ... [full story]