More than 400 people were arrested during a chaotic day of Occupy protests in the US city of Oakland that saw demonstrators break into city hall and burn an American flag and police fire tear gas, and use flash grenades to disperse the crowds.

Some countries that use the euro have the flexibility to boost growth to help shore up the ailing eurozone economy, the head of the International Monetary Fund said today.

A group of businesses have launched a campaign to get rid of Occupy Dame Street protesters who have been camped outside the Central Bank for four months.

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.

Dozens of people have been arrested during Occupy demonstrations at the University of California's Berkeley campus as authorities twice clashed with protesters trying to set up encampments.

A MOCK maths class, as a symbol of the absurdity of mammoth sums of money being paid to bail out the banks, was held in a Cork branch of AIB by the city’s Occupy protesters.

IN your enlightening feature on world population (Forum, Oct 22), you lay out the current state of the world in numbers but avoid a real analysis on the inequities facing new citizens of this planet.

IT started on Wall Street five weeks ago when tens of thousands of people gathered in solidarity to express their anger towards the failed policies which led to a global financial meltdown.