Barcelona, Spain – American Ryan Lochte picked up a pair of gold medals Friday at the 2013 World Swimming Championships, while Missy Franklin was kept off the podium for the first time this week. Lochte won individual gold in the men's 200-meter …

Bullion still posted a near 2 percent loss for its biggest weekly drop in five weeks, weighed down by a dollar rally. Gold initially fell to a two-week low at $1,280 an ounce as encouraging U.S. gross domestic product and factory activity data earlier …

It found that despite making sacrifices and leading a life of comparative deprivation in an affluent society, many Indian expatriates stand to gain no long-term benefit from working in the Gulf. Many Indians who work in the Gulf for decades return home …

In their pursuit "to combine our lifestyle with our profession," historians Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul initially coaxed the deans at UC Santa Barbara into permitting them to teach a history of surfing class. It was a serious class. Honest! Then …

Director of the Talbot County Office of Economic Development Paige Bethke said this isn't the first time Easton has been recognized for the amount of high–end real estate the area has. Bethke said it's a balance between the “beautiful rivers and …

Nonlisted real estate investment trusts and business development corporations had a banner first half this year, with a record $10.7 billion invested, the highest half-year total on record. Those capital inflows to nonlisted REITs and BDCs represented …

At the end of May, the overall volume of real estate sales in Pitkin County was about $419 million, about 6.2 percent behind the volume of total sales of $446 million at the same time in 2012. The total number of sales through May of this year was 315 …

The deVere Group operates in 70 offices around the world, and the new partnership will provide deVere's clients, who currently have US$9 billion of funds under management, with access to strategic property investments in high-value real estate markets …

Geographic and regional factors — even things in the same city or suburban area — like weather, school districts, annual income averages, crime levels, available public transportation, infrastructure, available housing or rental inventories, and …