Here's your lunchtime news bulletin.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

The last tower of the famous Riviera Hotel and Casino has been reduced to a pile of rubble on the Las Vegas Strip.

One person was killed and another 30 were injured when a woman intentionally swerved her car on to a busy pavement on the Las Vegas Strip, mowing down pedestrians.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime

A fire at a hotel’s swimming pool sent large plumes of black smoke high above the Las Vegas Strip, but left most guests unscathed Saturday.

Republican presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, has criticised US immigration and trade policies, while veering from accusing Mexico of deliberately sending criminals across the border to professing respect for the Mexican government and love for its people.

Stepping out of the sliding doors of McCarran International Airport into a July mid-afternoon on the fringe of the desert is not the most settling of experiences.

US President Barack Obama has reaffirmed that he does not intend to send US troops into combat against the Islamic State group, despite doubts about the ability of Iraqi forces, Kurdish fighters, and Syrian rebels to carry out the ground fight on their own.

The world’s largest big wheel attraction started turning as tourists took in a unique overview of the Las Vegas Strip, with wide skies and craggy brown mountains in the distance.

The Las Vegas Strip is getting the world’s largest Ferris wheel.

Three people are dead and at least three are wounded from a gun battle between moving vehicles that ultimately crashed at a busy intersection on the Las Vegas Strip.

She did not win but Miss America contestant Allyn Rose has conveyed a message about breast cancer prevention using her primary tool as a beauty queen: her body.

An American university student has been named Miss Universe, defeating dozens of contestants from six continents to bring the crown back to the US after a drought of more than a decade.

A 20-year-old American beauty queen was crowned Miss Universe today.

US Senate majority leader Harry Reid was taken to hospital after what appeared to be a rear-end crash on a highway through Las Vegas tonight.

Burlesque performer and Las Vegas Strip star Holly Madison is pregnant with her first child.

US billionaire Sheldon Adelson said yesterday he plans to spend $35 billion (€26.3bn) on a mini-Las Vegas strip in Spain where he is courting the country’s two top urban areas, Barcelona and Madrid, with plans for a casino complex.

Rapper Coolio was arrested on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in court for driving offences almost two years ago.

Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is facing a March court date in Las Vegas following his arrest on a 2009 traffic warrant and a new misdemeanour drug charge, authorities said.

Sinead O'Connor has reunited with her husband, a week after they split.

Sinéad O'Connor got married in a pink Cadillac in Las Vegas yesterday.

A Las Vegas nightclub owned by 'Desperate Housewives' co-star Eva Longoria is temporary closing its doors amid financial troubles.

Elton John is returning to the Las Vegas Strip for a three-year run at Caesars Palace.

Paris Hilton’s boyfriend is facing criminal charges following his arrest with the celebrity socialite on the Las Vegas Strip.

A HOTEL visitor was injured and a stretch of the Las Vegas Strip was shut down for more than two hours after caustic acid leaked outside a popular resort.

ACTOR Tony Curtis was buried on Monday with some of his prized possessions – a Stetson hat, an Armani scarf, driving gloves, an iPhone and a copy of his favourite novel, Anthony Adverse, a book that inspired his celebrity name and launched a robust film career that spanned decades and genres.

Paris Hilton was banned from two resorts on the Las Vegas Strip and her boyfriend dismissed as a nightclub partner following their arrests in a vehicle that police said reeked of cannabis.

Singer Marie Osmond returned to the stage the day after her suicide son’s funeral, dressed as an angel to dedicate a song to him.

A 51-year-old American man has embraced the Valentine’s Day spirit faster than anyone before, giving 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for a new world record.

Manchester’s light-welterweight king Ricky Hatton faces Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Casino in the early hours of tomorrow morning in the first super-fight of 2009. But has the economic downturn impacted on the appetite for big time boxing Stateside? Simon Lewis reports from Nevada.

From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Empire State Building in New York and the Sears Tower in Chicago, illuminated patches of the globe went dark for Earth Hour, a campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed today as Sydney became the world’s first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

ILLUSIONISTS Siegfried and Roy — and the Bengal tiger that ended their careers — shared the stage again on Saturday night for a haunting final performance.

A rare pre-winter storm brought the desert town of Las Vegas its heaviest snowfall in nearly 30 years today, closing the airport and main roads.

A six-year-old boy kidnapped from a Las Vegas home by alleged drug dealers has been found alive north-east of the Strip, police said today.

Barack Obama literally came out swinging as he took centre stage at a Las Vegas baseball stadium in a bid to woo voters in the key battleground state of Nevada.

Anna Nicole Smith’s former boyfriend Larry Birkhead spent nearly US$3,000 (€1,919) at a celebrity auction scooping up lingerie once worn in a Playboy shoot by the late playmate.

Donny and Marie Osmond will perform in a variety show at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip beginning in September, it was announced tonight.

JOE CALZAGHE is ready to shine in the neon glow of the Las Vegas Strip tonight and score a victory which will elevate him to a pantheon inhabited by some of the very best to have laced on gloves.