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Clare Baldwin works from Hong Kong. Special Correspondent for Reuters. Pulitzer Prize winner. Standard disclaimers. PGP: 55C7 F571 0092 FC5B Clare Baldwin has over 2897 followers on Twitter.
Although Hong Kong’s leader has indicated a concession to pro-democracy protesters, expectations remain low ahead of talks.
Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan on Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the north-eastern US
General Motors made a triumphant return to Wall Street but its shares lost momentum after an early bounce.
Police tipped off by a street vendor defused a car bomb on Times Square in New York on Saturday that could have turned into a "deadly event".
An apparent failed car bomb in a vehicle that was smoking and emitted a small "flash" caused police to evacuate New York’s Times Square on Saturday.
