New York firefighters attacked police today during violent protests over the scaling down of recovery operations at ground zero.

President George Bush was today visiting New York to see its response to the devastating World Trade Centre terror strikes.

Crews working in the smouldering ruins of the World Trade Centre have begun assembling giant cranes capable of lifting hundreds of tons of debris at a time.

Billionaire American media mogul Michael Bloomberg easily won the Republican primary in the New York mayoral contest, while two Democrats headed for a runoff.

Hope today evaporated for a miracle survival amid the rubble of the World Trade Centre, two weeks after the terrorist attacks on America.

New York's Yankee Stadium has became a house of prayer as thousands of people take part in an inter-faith service for the victims of terrorism.

New York has declared Wall Street open for business, even as thick smoke and dust linger in the air and rescue crews continue searching a mountain of rubble.

With hopes fading that any more survivors would be found amid the dust, steam and gore that is now the World Trade Centre, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged New Yorkers not to cower before terrorism.

Mourners gathered in New York Saturday at funerals for three top officials of the city's fire department killed in the aftermath of Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center.

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Saturday warned that some of the bodies of the 4,972 missing in the World Trade Center terrorist attack might never be found and announced a massive DNA matching program to help identify those that are recovered.

President George W Bush received a rousing welcome in New York tonight from rescue workers and firefighters searching through the carnage of Tuesday’s attacks on the World Trade Centre.

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said today there is no cause for alarm over increased levels of asbestos and dioxin in city's air following the destruction of the World Trade Center.