A property expert told a court that the price media mogul Conrad Black paid for a co-op apartment on New York’s Upper East Side was £2.7m (€4m) below fair market value.

A single-engine plane crashed into a high-rise building on New York’s Upper East Side high-rise today, killing four people, raining debris on the sidewalks below and rattling New Yorkers’ nerves exactly one month after the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack.

US secretary of state Colin Powell was expecting to win broad approval from Arab, European, Russian and United Nations leaders today on an ‘‘action plan’’ to help the Palestinian people over the next three years.