Hotels in New York City have agreed to approve a hotel union request to give housekeepers personal panic buttons. The move comes after a Sofitel hotel maid accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape last May.
A group of Muslim community leaders on Friday boycotted an interfaith breakfast organised by Mayor Bloomberg to protest against what they call racial profiling and violation of civil rights by the city’s police department.
New York police swooped to arrest a 27-year-old "al Qaeda sympathizer" who was planning to bomb post offices, police and U.S. troops returning home, the city's mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Sunday.
New York police clashed with Occupy protesters Thursday, arresting at least 100 people after hundreds turned out for a Wall Street march to mark the two-month anniversary of the movement.
Occupy Wall Street protesters returned late Tuesday to the New York Park where they had camped for two months until being forcibly evicted by police in a surprise early morning raid, but they were banned from pitching tents again.
Eye witness reports from Occupy Wall Street protesters as their camp is dismantled. British Press Agency Reuters accused of biased reporting in Yemen. And web users have been recreating famous paintings with photography…
The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France that greeted generations of immigrants arriving in the US, celebrates its 125th birthday on Friday, then closes for a year's repairs. Both the US and French national anthems will be played.
New York City authorities have postponed a planned cleaning of Zuccotti Park, the centre of the Occupy Wall Street protests that began on September 17. Protesters had claimed the clean-up was an attempt to evict them.
US President Barack Obama has acknowledged the frustration and anger aimed at the country's financial system as protests against corporate greed and rising inequalities spread to more than a dozen cities across the US.
Trade union members joined thousands of demonstrators on Wednesday in a march on New York’s Wall Street district to protest against income inequality and unemployment, marking the movement's largest rally yet.
