A Hollywood master and a young pretender go head to head for Cannes’ top prize tomorrow, as films starring Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson had their premieres this week.

The last Occupy protect camp in the country has been dismantled by gardaí and council chiefs.

The Occupy Dame Street camp in Dublin city centre has today been cleared by gardaí and councils chiefs.

Vladimir Putin today rejected opposition protests against his presidential election victory and his foreign ministry ruled out any softening of Moscow’s stance on Syria, a strong indication that the Russian leader has no intention of easing tough policies at home or abroad.

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An Occupy Wall Street protestor has found her dream job working in the financial district.

POLICE in riot gear and biohazard suits removed anti-Wall Street activists from an encampment outside the Los Angeles City Hall, arresting an estimated 200 people.

BRITISH anti-capitalist protesters have occupied a third location in London, “repossessing” a large empty office block owned by Swiss banking giant UBS.

Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the US to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signal they are not ready to quit, despite the break-up of many of their encampments by police.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched through New York's financial district today and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities.

Protesters have flooded back into New York's Zuccotti Park where police demolished their two-month-old tent camp yesterday.

HUNDREDS of police officers in riot gear raided the New York city park where the Occupy Wall Street protests began, evicting and arresting protesters, before dawn, from what has become the epicentre of the worldwide movement protesting at corporate greed and economic inequality.

Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the New York City park where the Occupy Wall Street protests began, evicting and arresting dozens of protesters, before dawn, from what has become the epicentre of the worldwide movement protesting at corporate greed and economic inequality.

More than 10,000 people are protesting against the banks’ dominance in two of the Germany’s major cities, police said today.

At least four anti-capitalist protesters were hurt in clashes with police in California.

The US Federal Reserve today painted a bleaker outlook for the nation's economy, which it thinks will grow much more slowly and face higher unemployment than it had estimated in June.

AN Iraq war veteran badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police was upgraded to fair condition yesterday as activists called for a general strike against the Bay Area city.

ANTI-WALL Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 arrests early yesterday.

Folk music legend Pete Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest on Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City’s Upper West Side past banks and department stores.

THE global “Day of Rage” against the world’s financial system won some limited sympathy from political and economic leaders yesterday, after protests that were peaceful everywhere but Italy.

Dozens of people have been arrested in the United States after after a day of protests in cities around the world where tens of thousands gathered to rally against what they see as corporate greed.

More than 80 people were arrested in New York in the latest demonstrations against corporate greed which sparked global protests.

Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons in Rome today as violent protesters turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles.

EVERY day, at 1pm and 6pm, they gather for a general assembly.

Wall Street protesters are poised for an ugly confrontation with police and New York authorities trying to end the month-long occupation of a park that has spawned similar gatherings across America and is going global.

WHETHER you call the actions of the Occupy Wall Street protesters the American Spring or describe those involved as anarchists or extremists, you should still be concerned at how those who were the architects of the economic collapse continue to be treated with kid gloves, and almost rewarded for the errors of their ways, while the rest of the population continues to pay for the greed of the former. It’s not just Ireland which has failed to deal with the issue.

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters held a “Millionaires March” past the homes of some of the wealthiest executives in America, stopping to jeer “Tax the rich!” and “Where’s my bailout?”

THE Occupy Wall Street movement in the US has been heating up again — resulting in about 50 arrests in Boston and plans for a Manhattan “Millionaires March” to the homes of some of New York city’s wealthiest residents.

TAHRIR Square in Cairo, Green Square in Tripoli, Syntagma Square in Athens and now Zuccotti Park in New York — popular anger against entrenching the power elite is spreading around the world.

A group of people protesting outside the Central Bank in Dublin for the past few days remain there this afternoon.

US President Barack Obama said anti-Wall Street protests in New York and beyond were an expression of public anger over the antics of bankers and frustration over the moribund economy.

Protests against Wall Street spread across the US as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed.

Protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan’s Financial District for more than two weeks say they have no intention of giving up, following mass arrests at the weekend.

Police have arrested about 700 protesters who swarmed New York’s Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours.