AMERICANS honoured Dr Martin Luther King yesterday with a traditional day of service as well as a new wave of economic injustice protests by Occupy Wall Street.

Republican presidential candidates battled to win over undecided conservatives as Iowa’s first vote of the nominating process to challenge President Barack Obama looms next week.

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.

The City of London Corporation has relaunched legal action against the anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

Protestors with Occupy Dame Street have said they will camp outside the American Embassy in Dublin this afternoon.

CITY officials have asked Occupy Cork protesters to leave the city park where they have been camped for almost a month.

Suzanne Harrington joins the worldwide hordes who aren’t just moaning about the economic crisis — they’re getting out and doing something about it

FOR an October revolution, dress warm.

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.

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.

Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to sit-ins and rallies in New York and elsewhere reverberated up to the White House yesterday, with President Barack Obama saying the protesters are expressing the frustrations of the American public.

POLICE reopened New York’s Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorised march across the span.