New Yorkers aren’t fazed by the terror scare. But they do hate the extra traffic…
“Even if they are a little queasy, no self-respecting New Yorker would ever admit as much to an alien reporter. But they do hate the gridlock created by the alerts. ”
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The FBI arrests a man in connection with a plot to bomb New York’s Federal Reserve bank, according to reports from the United States.
Mayor Bloomberg says it’s a vital part of the battle against obsesity: but critics say his plan to ban super-sized servings of fizzy drinks is an attack on their human rights.
The world waits a hundred years for a flying car – and then two come along at once. Channel 4 News reports from New York.
A ringing mobile phone on Tuesday halted a concert at New York’s Lincoln Centre’s Avery Fisher Hall during the final movement of Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony by the New York Philharmonic.
An “al-Qaeda sympathiser” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City, as well as US troops returning home, is arrested on terrorism-related charges.
A British woman has been killed after a helicopter carrying four tourists crashed into New York’s East River shortly after take off.
Demonstrators taking part in the “Occupy Wall Street” campaign against corporate greed accuse New York police of heavy-handed tactics, including the use of mace spray.
“Even if they are a little queasy, no self-respecting New Yorker would ever admit as much to an alien reporter. But they do hate the gridlock created by the alerts. ”
An evacuation order has been lifted in New York as Irene moves along the US east coast. As James Blake reports, eleven people are feared dead and millions are coping with power cuts.
President Obama has cut short his holiday warning Hurricane Irene will be a “historic” storm, as low lying parts of New York are evacuated and public transport shut down.
Boris Johnson doesn’t want America’s Supercop swooping down on the Met Police with his hard-line “zero tolerance” policies. But how does the NYPD with it’s hard-line tactics, compare to the London’s Metropolitan poilce?
Three New York couples tied the knot in a public ceremony in Times Square this morning, in a grand gesture marking the Royal nuptials.
Three bodies are discovered on a New York beach – close to the spot where a serial killer is thought to have dumped the bodies of five other women.
How Channel 4 News reported the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square and Faisal Shahzad’s alleged plan to “kill Americans”.
Sarah Smith blogs on attempts by the Argentinian Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana to persuade the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to encourage talks over the Falkland Islands.