Is the hoax campaign to concrete over NYC’s favourite green space and build an airport a satire on transport policy or another product viral?
Dozens of big-name performers and actors gathered at a major charity concert in New York late on Saturday to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela.
When Floyd Mayweather Jnr walked away from boxing, he was widely considered the pound-for-pound king, the mythical mantle bestowed upon the best.
Visitors expecting to experience economic catastrophe at Ground Zero amazed to stumble upon something so positive.
Court documents released on Friday show that Bernard Madoff and his wife Ruth lived a life of high luxury, with assets worth $823-million.
Bernard Madoff, expected to plead guilty this week to charges of running Wall Street’s biggest fraud, will appear in court on Tuesday.
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/ 12 February 2009
A van travelled for nearly an hour over busy New York City roads before its driver discovered the horrific cargo it had dragged almost 32km.
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/ 28 January 2009
State and industry regulators were put on the defensive on Tuesday at a Senate hearing over their failure to uncover Bernard Madoff’s fraud scheme.
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/ 26 January 2009
Companies forecast almost 70 000 job cuts in a single day as the rampant crisis born in the banking sector struck workers across the globe.
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/ 18 January 2009
Salvage experts worked on Saturday to hoist on to a barge the US Airways plane that made a miraculous landing in the Hudson River this week.
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/ 16 January 2009
Ailing US banking giant Citigroup reported on Friday that it was splitting into two businesses to restore profitability.
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/ 16 January 2009
A US Airways jet with 155 people on board ditched in the frigid Hudson River off Manhattan after apparently hitting a flock of geese on Thursday.
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/ 14 January 2009
However amazing it may be to view the Prado on Google Earth, many of its facets may not be rendered digitally.
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/ 13 January 2009
Pick ‘n Pay was on Tuesday voted the world’s best retailer by international retail organisation, the National Retail Federation.
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/ 13 January 2009
Broadway producers are finding it tough to attract investors for new productions as the financial crisis takes a toll on the Great White Way.
Israel has yet to learn the US lesson, that the war on terror was a failure
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/ 12 December 2008
Imagine running the largest credit card network, and not having your own plastic — that’s what happened to Visa chief executive Joseph Saunders.
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/ 4 December 2008
Americans will on Friday toast the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, which began in 1920 and was repealed in 1933 on economic grounds.
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/ 2 December 2008
Fancy sports shoes were declared off limits at New York prisons from Monday as authorities sought to reduce friction between inmates.
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/ 29 November 2008
A man working for Wal-Mart was killed on Friday in a stampede by frenzied shoppers who broke down doors and surged into a Long Island store.
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/ 28 November 2008
ON CIRCUIT: <i>Doctor Atomic</i>, <i>Synecdoche, New York</i> as well as <i>Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Cinema of Cult and Cool Film Festival </i>
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/ 20 November 2008
Want to feel at home in NYC? A new supper club invites you to join Brooklyn hipsters for a dinner party. Isabel Choat reports.
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/ 20 November 2008
New York’s multicultural street food is unrivalled
— and the most successful vendors take their
wares and set up shop.
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/ 16 October 2008
Two giant diamonds sold for more than -million at auction on Wednesday to a Middle Eastern buyer, bucking a wave of gloom.
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/ 10 October 2008
Pushy, ambitious, bold, Michael Bloomberg’s bid to remain mayor for another four years marks him out as the archetypal New Yorker.
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/ 22 September 2008
Magician and showman David Blaine strung himself upside down above an ice-skating rink on Monday and plans to stay there for 60 hours.
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/ 19 September 2008
A window installer plucked from a scaffold as it teetered high above a Manhattan street says he called his mother while he was waiting to be rescued.
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/ 11 September 2008
A memorial opens next to the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on the seventh anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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/ 9 September 2008
After Roger Federer proved that reports of his demise as a Grand Slam champion were greatly exaggerated, the Swiss celebrated winning the US Open.
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/ 8 September 2008
Tennis history will be made on Monday in the US Open men’s final, but whether a familiar face or shocking upstart wins remains to be seen.
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/ 7 September 2008
Forgive Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic if this US Open is one grand-slam event he would like to forget.
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/ 6 September 2008
World number two Jelena Jankovic advanced to her first grand-slam final in the US Open on Saturday, setting up a showdown with Serena Williams.