Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Twice in the past decade, a handsome brick mansion on Astor Street sold while looking dated and in need of rehab. Last redone in the mid ...

“Haiti needs sustained humanitarian assistance ... compared to 34% which are made up of vacant lots and abandoned houses,” the human-rights group said. “The other 27% sites are scattered ...

GENEVA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations ...

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Choking air. Piles of concrete where houses used to stand. Buildings sunk in holes. People searching for bodies in the ruins. People staring in disbelief. Earthquake. Haiti. Fifteen years ago Sunday.

That’s why some of the city’s best hotels in Buenos Aires are located in former residences within posh Retiro and Recoleta boroughs: mainly mansions with extravagant detailing, from the Four ...

Haiti’s security crisis is creating challenges ... which is to demolish other houses,” she said. “You still have those three other stages to be completed and we honestly don’t know what ...

The power couple next paid a casual $400,000 a month to rent a 31,000-square-foot New England–style mansion in Bridgehampton, New York, in 2012. The vacation home sat on 11.5 acres and was ...

Also gone in the devastating wildfires are pieces of Hollywood history, with a number of historic houses used in iconic movies and TV series threatened or destroyed. That includes the Altadena ...

Like everything she owns, Paris Hilton’s houses are over the top. Whether you were aware of her in the early aughts or if you’ve simply bared witness to the Y2K revival in recent years, ...

It was added on its completion in 1947, to fill out the roster, as many houses remained unbuilt. Clearly, the Nomland design earned its place on the list, having many features in common with other ...