No other market debut has matched the frenzy created by Facebook. DealBook’s live blog will be tracking reactions to the company’s I.P.O. throughout the day.

The authorities are eager to paint the fallen official Bo Xilai, whose family has a substantial fortune, as a rogue operator. But other officials’ relatives have also amassed vast wealth.

The tech giant will refocus on product development and sales, executives say, and operations in China will most likely be spared.

At Facebook, ground zero for the nouveau tech riche in Silicon Valley, peer pressure dictates that consumption be kept on the down low.

Pronouncements about the consequences of leaving the euro seem to be falling on increasingly deaf ears.

Documents made public by the special prosecutor in the Florida case describe an attempt to revive the 17-year-old victim and injuries to George Zimmerman, the gunman.

Vintage lumber salvaged from old urban structures, like Coney Island’s boardwalk and a Park Avenue water tower, gets a second life.

Local school districts brace for state cuts
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
Pat Quinn's proposal of spending $33.8 billion by about $1 billion, with $400 million of that coming from K-12 education. General State Aid – which is the basic amount the state contributes toward every child's education in public schools – could be ...

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The city will abandon efforts to lay off teachers who draw full salaries but have no permanent jobs, and potentially solve one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s most intractable education issues.

Homeschooling Goes To College
Carolina Journal
By Kristen Blair RALEIGH — Twenty years ago homeschooling was relegated to the fringes of K-12 education — the spurned stepchild in a newly blended family of schooling options. Today homeschooling is a credible, viable educational choice that is ...

Some lovers of the Barnes Foundation’s art collection were fearful that moving it to a new space in Philadelphia would be disastrous. They were wrong, the critic Roberta Smith says.

Deflecting pucks is an art, one that requires hand-eye coordination and a masochistic streak for those who camp in front of the net.

Col. Michael D. Wirt’s database of injuries and treatment in his corner of the Afghan war could be a model for improving care, but the military has yet to follow his example.

The sale of the duplex penthouse at One57 for more than $90 million broke the city’s previous record of $88 million.

Florida officials are investigating more than 180,000 suspected noncitizens in an effort to tighten voter registration ahead of the presidential election.

Chelsea can become the first London team to win the Champions League, leaving many fans of Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal to root for Bayern Munich.

The Israeli government requested a moment of silence be observed 40 years after 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were killed at the Munich Games, but the International Olympic Committee refused.

Word that Joe Ricketts had considered bankrolling advertisements invoking the incendiary race-infused statements of President Obama’s former pastor drew wide denunciation.

Chinese state news media said gunmen seized three boats with 29 sailors aboard and were demanding ransom.

The crackdown on the demonstration at Aleppo University came less than a week after it had reopened following a raid by security forces that left at least four students dead.