This year’s Eid is not naïve. It does not pretend the world is at peace. It does not ignore the children buried under rubble, the families displaced, the cities reduced to ash
New York police had no immediate confirmation of the nature of the incident.
A film installation celebrating the words of Mandela is taking over the electronic billboards in the square for a few minutes every night until May.
Senior White House officials believe Times Square car bomb was the work of a Pakistani Taliban group, rather than a "lone wolf" attacker.
US authorities were still questioning a Pakistani-American man on Wednesday, who they say admitted trying to bomb New York’s Times Square.