NEW YORK

The restaurant reservation platform OpenTable Inc. announced the list of top hottest restaurants in New York, which are among the 50 winners of OpenTable's Diners' Choice Awards for the Top Hot Spot Restaurants in the United States.

Prof. Ferdinand Porsche developed the world’s first hybrid car, first advanced electric car, and all-wheel drive car a century ago, and now Porsche brings a recreation of his Semper Vivus to New York.

The New York International Auto Show in 2011 will run from Friday April 22nd until Sunday May 1st at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on Saturday April 23rd.

The Nissan LEAF is the first of four 100% electric vehicles Nissan has announced, part of our worldwide commitment to becoming a leader in the effort to build a sustainable, low-carbon society.

The Knicks look for a change in fortune

Court testimony by Joseph Massino, the former boss of New York’s Bonanno crime family, indicates that a top capo in a rival family might have ordered the killing of his own son.

The happiest countries and happiest U.S. states tend to have unusually high rates of suicide, a new research suggests.

The New York auto show happens at the end of the international auto show season, is fairly small, and above all was over-shadowed by the Shanghai International Auto Show this year. Consequently, there were few surprises and big global debuts. During the first day, updates for several small cars were revealed, and more efficient engines entered the mix.

Famed television comic Jerry Seinfeld has pulled out of an event connected to Eric Trump, son of Donald Trump, because of the latter’s aggressive attacks on President Barack Obama, particularly his insistence that Obama was not born in the U.S., according to a report on CNN.

Delegates from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have offered the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and a proposal for him to step down from power, after months of unrest in the small, poverty-stricken country.

Minnesota Senator Al Franken has called out Apple after reports emerged that the company's products were keeping detailed records of the location data of their users.

The bassist and keyboard player of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio, Gerard Smith, has died of lung cancer. He was 36.

Apple iPhone and iPad secretly records a user's whereabouts o the device in unencrypted format making it accessible to other users and programs running on the machine.

Researchers at a technology conference in San Francisco on Wednesday have accused Apple of breaching the privacy line of consumers by storing user's location and other details in a secret file.

Two news photographers were killed in the conflict zone in Libyan rebel stronghold of Misrata where Muammar Gaddafi's forces have intensified attacks on rebel positions.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: China Security & Surveillance, SLM Corp, Tempur-pedic International, Yum! Brands and Gardner Denver. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Goodrich Corp, Tele Norte Leste Participacoes, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Elan Corp and General Growth Properties.

The cast of MTV's Jersey Shore may be headed to Italy, but they are getting a long list of rules to bring along.

Yemen has been struck by fresh new violence, one day after a summit in the United Nations failed to reach a consensus on the nation’s crisis.

TMZ is reporting that former American Idol contestant Pia Toscano will be performing on for her alleged boyfriend, Mark Ballas, on Dancing With the Stars.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Williams Companies, Freeport-McMoRan, Advanced Micro Devices, salesforce.com, Sandisk Corp, Applied Materials, Textron, Intuitive Surgical, International Business machines and Wells Fargo.

Gold prices soared above $1,500 an ounce on Wednesday, setting a new all-time record, even as the precious metal sustained a superb run banking on its value as the preferred safe haven investment in uncertain times.