With thousands of people gathered in Central Park to protest against the violence in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, one speaker likened the destruction there to the Holocaust.

Actor George Clooney has told the UN’s most powerful body that if it does not send peacekeepers to Sudan’s Darfur region millions of people would die in what he called the first genocide of the 21st century.

A wily young coyote led dozens of police on foot and in a helicopter on a chase through New York’s Central Park, at one point leaping over an eight-foot fence before finally being captured.

A record-breaking storm buried sections of the US north east under more than two feet of snow today, leaving thousands of travellers stranded.

Prince Albert took over Monaco’s royal powers yesterday, assuming all but the throne in the tiny principality after a royal commission decided that his critically-ill father was too sick to perform his duties.

MARK CARROLL will start 2005 at full speed after entering a four-mile midnight run in New York’s Central Park on New Year’s Eve.

Elton John plans to pay £6m (€8.4m) for a luxury Manhattan flat, it was reported today.

Jennifer Lopez has denied rumors that she plans to marry fiancé Ben Affleck on Valentine’s Day. The singer insisted the couple still haven’t decided when Tinseltown’s most eagerly anticipated wedding will be.

Five men jailed for the brutal rape of a jogger in New York’s Central Park in 1989 are expected to have their convictions overturned tomorrow after another man confessed to the crime.

The stars last night came out for a concert paying tribute to John Lennon - and to the people of New York, the city where he died.

Holding pictures of lost loved ones, mourners gathered in New York’s Central Park to remember the 700 employees of the bond firm Cantor Fitzgerald who were killed in the World Trade Centre attack.