POLICE found an “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, authorities said yesterday.

Police in the US found an “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in New York’s Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle it, authorities said today.

A 90-YEAR-OLD who says she’s the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II’s most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday — days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city’s Veterans Day parade.

Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain, amid a red-carpet atmosphere befitting a blockbuster movie premiere.