Hundreds of people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge demanding stricter gun laws and offering a litany of violent stories to show why they are needed.

The kingpin of the Silk Road drug cartel believed he was safely hidden online ... he wasn’t. Nina Burleigh on the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht

Protests have erupted across New York and in US cities from Georgia to California after a white police officer was cleared over the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.

A French tourist was arrested after climbing the Brooklyn Bridge in New York to take photos.

Chances are you'll drop the ring.

USA: A tree planted in Los Angeles to honour former Beatle George Harrison has been killed — by beetles.

A winter storm with fierce winds has struck the north eastern United States dumping nearly two feet of snow in some parts and whipping up blizzard-like conditions.

After taking an enormous bite of the Big Apple over the last six days, courtesy of the National Lottery, 78 prize winners touch down in Dublin Airport this morning laden with shopping and wonderful memories.

THREE sporting cheers for satellite and cable networks, and for the internet. Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling final will be seen by millions worldwide.

The most high profile rebranding of a US sports team of the past decade needs all the help it can get and the Brooklyn Nets ticked two important boxes this week: they beat the New York Knicks on Monday night and got into a fight in Boston on Wednesday.

The sun shone again over New York yesterday, as the city and much of the US east coast took the first steps back to normality after being battered by superstorm Sandy.

The battered US East Coast took the first steps back towards daily routine today, even as rescuers combed areas strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.

President Obama has declared a "major disaster" in New York and Long Island after superstorm Sandy swept across the east coast of America, killing at least 16 people.

ARTIST Nina Boesch’s ten-year labour of love has finally paid off for her.

The two men were found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-storey building, as if dumped there, one sprawled on top of the other.

Almost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet.

The New York melting pot was overflowing in Lower Manhattan yesterday morning, all manner of people brought there by their champion football team.

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.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched through New York's financial district today and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities.

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.

Several thousand Occupy Wall Street protesters have marched to New York City's Washington Square Park for a peaceful general assembly.

CHRISTMAS shopping in New York may no longer be a popular pastime in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland except for one group of Lotto winners.

Protests against Wall Street spread across the US as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed.

PROTESTERS against corporate greed and other issues in New York are showing no signs of giving up their campaign as it enters its third week.

Protesters against corporate greed and other issues in New York are showing no signs of giving up their campaign as it enters its third week.

Protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan’s Financial District for more than two weeks say they have no intention of giving up, following mass arrests at the weekend.

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.

Police have arrested about 700 protesters who swarmed New York’s Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours.

THE FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small planes just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

A Pakistani scientist allegedly linked to al Qaida will go on trial in New York today, accused of shooting at FBI agents in Afghanistan.

He’s lucky she said yes – and he’s also lucky the diamond engagement ring he dropped on the Brooklyn Bridge didn’t end up in the river.

Rapper JAY-Z has joined New York officials in an effort to transform the city's congested streets into traffic-free playgrounds.

A small plane slammed into a 40-storey apartment building in New York, killing two people in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the pavements and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.

THE city stepped up its pressure on striking transit workers yesterday in hopes of forcing them back to work as millions of New Yorkers trudged to work in another bone-chilling commute without subways and buses.

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US President George Bush is pressuring Congress to renew the Patriot Act by highlighting the actions of Ohio police who helped catch a man accused of plotting attacks on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York and a Midwest shopping centre.

THREE decades after forming in a Dublin secondary school and still on top of the music world, U2 were ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by the O’Jays, Percy Sledge, The Pretenders and Buddy Guy.

Three decades after forming in a Dublin school and still on top of the music world, U2 were ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by the O’Jays, Percy Sledge, The Pretenders and Buddy Guy.

Hundreds of music fans gathered to catch a glimpse of rock legends U2 today as they filmed the video for their next single.

A Somali living in Ohio has been charged with plotting with other al-Qaida operatives to blow up a US shopping mall.

A new design for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Centre has been unveiled in New York showing a structure with a gracefully sloping spire rising 1,776 feet.

In Times Square, the crossroads of the world, all the neon and bright lights were impossibly dark.

US federal authorities say terrorism suspect Iyman Faris is co-operating in the investigation of al-Qaida. Faris pleaded guilty yesterday to terrorism charges and admitted plots against trains and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Fans have found a number of mistakes in Martin Scorcese's epic Gangs of New York.