Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters held a “Millionaires March” past the homes of some of the wealthiest executives in America, stopping to jeer “Tax the rich!” and “Where’s my bailout?”

A Turkish court was today resuming the trial of a German teenager accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old British girl while they were both on holiday, his lawyer said.

Five people were shot as spectators left a crowded high school basketball game in what police said may have been a gang-related attack.

Jennifer Hudson thanked her fans for their support in her first statement since burying her murdered mother, brother and nephew.

Police searching for Jennifer Hudson’s seven-year-old nephew today said they have found a boy’s body.

A member of a prominent Chicago family faces a felony gun charge after being arrested when he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama's home.

A crane rising 19 stories alongside a New York skyscraper under construction toppled like a tree across a city block, crashing into apartment buildings, killing four people and setting off a scramble for survivors.

An explosion led to a fire and collapse at a three-storey building on Manhattan’s East Side in New York today.

SCHOOLCHILDREN cheered as the first total eclipse in years plunged Ghana into daytime darkness yesterday, a solar show sweeping northeast from Brazil to Mongolia.

A diamond and sapphire brooch given to Katharine Hepburn by her then boyfriend, Howard Hughes, sold for more than €100,000 at an auction of hundreds of items from the estate of the late actress.