Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the signing of a decree setting up a transitional government in Mauritania, which he hopes will pave the way for the holding of free and fair presidential elections next month.

The United States has shipped about 40 tons of small arms and munitions to Somalia in the last two months to help the country's transitional government fight off a challenge from Islamist militants, a senior American official has revealed.

At least three people were killed and three others wounded when clan militias attacked militias of a rival clan in Adale district, local sources reported.

Guinea-Bissauans hope a presidential election process that opened with a political killing will end with a peacefully elected leader who will help move the country toward long-elusive civilian rule and stability.

Rivers State militant, Mr Solomon Ndigbara, who goes by the moniker Osama Bin Laden, was the first to accept the federal government's offer of amnesty yesterday when he laid down his weapons and formally handed them over to the Inspector

Last we heard on the House of Detention issue, Comptroller Thompson had rejected the architectural contract for renovating the jail because it had swelled from $16 million to $31 million; two weeks earlier, the State Supreme Court had ruled that

With over 5,000 new apartments (condos and rentals) expected to hit the Williamsburg market this year and next (combined), it doesn't take an Economics PhD to predict what the impact on pricing is likely to be or what it could

Montrose Morris was on the scene for last night's rally against the homeless intake center in Crown Heights and filed this report.The gym at St.Peter Claver School was full of people for last night's rally against the homeless intake center

OTBKB had an interesting post on Wednesday about the restoration of the at 7th Avenue and Carroll Street. The restoration crew—30 teenagers and nine adults—came all the way from Ohio and have been camping out in the church. And this

The news of LPC's sign-off on a at 321 Ashland Place last week coincided with the property changing hands: Two Trees sold the building to BAM for $7 million in a deal that was recorded last Thursday in . According

Park SlopeHarvey Heit RealtySunday 12-1:30$1,650,000 Fort Greene396 Vanderbilt Avenue and Sunday 12-1:30$1,395,000 $1,995,000 Windsor TerraceWarren LewisSunday 2:30-4:30$1,345,000 KensingtonCorcoranSunday 12:30-2$749,000

We bumped into , the man behind the Hideout bar on Adelphi and budding footwear entrepreneur, on the street in front of his soon-to-open shop at 45 Willoughby Avenue called Pedigree Sneaker Gallery and were able to poke our heads

The developer of 387 Franklin Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant paid $1,200,000 for the lot last year and is now in the process of erecting a seven-story, 28-unit building. Can't imagine it would end up being anything but rentals.

Because of the Christmas Holiday six months ago, there's no post today. Any recent sales that have caught your eye?

The vast (for Brooklyn) modern MetroTech seems to be following Manhattan down. While there is a 350,000-sf lease out there, we imagine it is cheap space. A recent proposal to a tenant went out under 22 bucks, we hear. Renaissance

Brooklyn open houses continue to dominate visitor traffic.

Over the weekend, eight units at 111 Monroe Street received price reductions of 10 percent or so; the to get its asking price trimmed was a 950-square-foot two-bedroom that went from $505,000 to $455,000. As you may recall, the 29-unit

Once upon a time, in a boom now past, Isaac Katan had to develop a 4th Avenue building half a block away from the Novo, which he also had a hand in. The 12-story, 107-unit project hasn't seen any action

This is shaping up to be a strong weekend in Flea land. With the addition of the second outdoor market, we're starting to be able to rotate in some fresh vendor blood that's been sitting on the sidelines; look for