The Eiffel Tower in Paris is the most popular spot in the world to take a selfie, according to new statistics.

Jimmy Fallon has lots of celebrity friends, as he demonstrated on his first episode of the Tonight Show - but hanging out with Cameron Diaz to prank tourists is pretty special.

American TV personality Jimmy Fallon took over the Tonight Show last night. It's probably the biggest gig in American television, having run since 1954 - like their Late Late Show, basically.

A British tourist who lost a leg when a taxi jumped a kerb and hit her in New York’s Rockefeller Centre has started the process of suing the city.

Eye witnesses claim a train that derailed in New York yesterday, killing four people, was travelling faster than normal.

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.

A FEATURE chair or group can really take the floor.

THINK New Year’s Eve, and New York comes to mind. Images of Times Square lit up like a disco ball, of crowds a million-strong cheering as a glittering sphere (covered in 2,688 Waterford crystals) descends into the ‘crossroads of the world’.

Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, both from hard-hit New Jersey, will perform at a benefit concert for Superstorm Sandy victims.

Susan Boyle broke down while meeting fans in New York.

THE ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has wed a public relations executive in a chic ceremony that the French media poked fun at yesterday.

The ex-wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy tied the knot last night in the US, a French newspaper website reported.

Republican front-runner John McCain said he would follow Osama bin Laden “to the gates of hell” to stop the al-Qaida leader, as he rallied voters in the key state of New York today.

Picket lines were set up on both US coasts today as the first strike by Hollywood writers in nearly 20 years got under way.

Hollywood writers will go on strike today after last-ditch talks called by a US government mediator failed.

UNDISPUTED welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr brushed aside Ricky Hatton’s calls for respect ahead of the December 8 showdown between the undefeated boxers and warned the Englishman, “we’re at war”.

Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odour today that stretched across a large part of Manhattan, including the Rockefeller Centre.

A Fifth Avenue skyscraper in New York is shredding previous prices for a single office building anywhere in the US.

An Irish musical extravaganza which has spent over 45 weeks at the top of the World Music Album Charts is to perform in Ireland for the first time.

LATE as always, but still greeted by cheers and screams of “Bill, we love you,” former US President Clinton opened the year’s hottest book tour with a marathon signing at a midtown Manhattan Barnes & Noble.

A RADIO contest challenging listeners to have sex in public places for a free trip to Boston’s Sam Adams Brewery has won the broadcasters a $357,500 fine.

POLICE arrested more than 140 protesters who lay down in the middle of New York’s 5th Avenue during morning rush hour yesterday as part of a “die-in” to protest the US-led war on Iraq.