OCCUPY Wall Street activists clashed yesterday with workers and police outside the New York Stock Exchange, prompting more than 100 arrests on the two-month anniversary of the movement’s vocal anti-capitalism campaign.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Copenhagen today as part of demonstrations around the world to demand a fair and binding new global deal to tackle climate change.

World leaders must put tackling poverty at the heart of future global policy making, Irish campaigners demanded today.