A recently laid-off shop worker has shot dead a former colleague outside New York's iconic Empire State Building before being killed by police.

A former IRA hunger striker-turned-property tycoon has avoided going back behind bars after successfully overturning a contempt of court judgment.

Crowds gathered along San Francisco's waterfront and the bay was crowded with pleasure boats, tugs and other vessels as the city celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.

The landlord of murdered Joanna Yeates remained in custody this morning after British police were granted more time to question him about her death.

Katie Price and her cage fighter husband Alex Reid had a lavish church blessing ceremony today held under a veil of secrecy.

A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey yesterday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said.

RELATIVES of a pregnant woman seriously injured in a car explosion in a quiet village said yesterday she had started her “long road to recovery”.

RESCUERS pulled more bodies from swollen rivers yesterday as residents started to dig out their homes from under carpets of mud after flooding left 140 people dead in the Philippine capital and surrounding towns.

A FRANTIC caller told authorities he had just come home to find several family members beaten to death and another barely breathing, according to a 911 call released yesterday following the weekend attack at a mobile home park in south-eastern Georgia.

RESIDENTS at a troubled flats complex have voted decisively for its demolition and the development of a new estate.

Five people on a business trip to France were killed today after their executive jet plummeted into a quiet village, exploding into a massive fireball.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas stepped in directly today in an attempt to stop bloody clashes between his Fatah and the Islamic Hamas that threatens to engulf his people in civil war and provoke a harsh Israeli response.

VOMIT and excrement on the doorsteps, vandalism, brawls and underage drinking on the streets — this is the graphic picture painted by residents of their home town of Clonakilty.

A suspected would-be suicide bomber was captured in a dramatic armed raid by British police and MI5 today.

An airliner with up to 105 people on board slammed into mosques and houses in a crowded working-class neighbourhood of Nigeria’s northern city of Kano today, and burst into flames.