As December rolls around, people start getting into the Christmas spirit. Spectacular street lights are turned on, trees are decorated, and markets roll out the festive cheer.

The good Samaritan who gave the coat, and more, off her back, to a baby born on a bustling New York street corner has been reunited with the child’s parents

When Cian and Polly McCourt moved from Ireland to the US, little did they suspect that the arrival of the newest Big Apple of their eye would get more views than a hit Broadway performance.

Cate Blanchett has praised "generous" Karl Lagerfeld for designing a bespoke jacket for her.

A 35-year-old woman on a first date plunged to her death when the railing on her 17th-floor balcony gave way, police in New York City said.

A “psychotic” former financier blew millions of dollars on presents for strangers, including luxury cars and cash gifts, while Bank of America failed to raise concerns, a lawsuit in New York claims.

Increasingly, Irish bar and restaurant owners in New York City are turning away from the tried and tested ‘Oirish’ pub model, with stylish updates. And it’s working, writes John Riordan (Picture: Saul Martinez)

Many Irish in the US would love to return for Christmas, but some can’t risk it, writes John Riordan in New York

In the wake of her divorce from Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes has been a walking shop window for her own fashion line — which just so happens to be making its NY Fashion Week debut next month.

Madonna is selling her Beverly Hills home for $28m.

Kourtney Kardashian is reportedly expecting a baby girl.

SHE’S not even two days old, but Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby girl is already proving to be a diva thanks to the over-the-top security measures afforded her pushy, famous parents at the Manhattan hospital where she was born.

HERE’S a tale of two cities, and two men, and how the more things change, the more often they stay the same.

The former girlfriend of billionaire financier George Soros has accused him of reneging on a promise to buy her an apartment in New York City and has filed a $50m (€35.15m) lawsuit.

Elizabeth Hurley has landed a role in 'Gossip Girl'.

Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn moved from a temporary space in a high-rise to a plush, four-bedroom brick townhouse in New York today, where he will remain under house arrest as he awaits trial for attempted rape.

Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of You Light Up My Life who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.

The New York apartment building where former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn is under house arrest on sexual assault charges has become a new tourist hot spot.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from jail to house arrest in a landmark apartment building near New York's ground zero after the luxury apartment where he had arranged to stay fell through because the neighbours objected to the media frenzy.

VICTORIA Beckham says, five seasons into her fashion brand, that she is a more confident designer and a more confident person, and that allows her to take risks beyond the structured cocktail dresses that gave her credibility with a famously finicky industry.

AHAB and Nemesis.

A New York foot model has launched a $10m lawsuit against the board of her swanky apartment block, accusing it of trying to force her out for falling in love with the Hispanic doorman.

Hundreds of patients at a huge New York hospital were evacuated early today, after a fire sent smoke billowing through the casualty unit.

The United States has been “asleep at the switch” and a financial regulatory upgrade is needed in the wake of Bernard Madoff’s alleged $49.4bn (€34.5bn) fraud scheme and the $692bn (€484bn) Wall Street bailout, president-elect Barack Obama said today.

A BRITISH woman who tried to humiliate her husband with internet videos during their high-profile divorce hit back yesterday after being branded by a New York judge as a “callous” star of a melodrama.

Two building workers were killed and one was seriously injured when a crane collapsed in a Manhattan neighbourhood, smashing into a 23-storey apartment building as it fell.

A construction crane collapsed today in a residential Manhattan neighbourhood, smashing into a 23-story apartment building as it fell to the ground, killing two construction workers and seriously injuring one.

A fed-up judge told Sean Connery and his downstairs neighbours to end their feud, it emerged today.

A small plane slammed into a 40-storey apartment building in New York, killing two people in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the pavements and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.

Fire officials in New York are investigating whether a suicidal doctor who was going through a difficult divorce caused an explosion that flattened a four-storey building in the city today.

A four-story building in New York went up in flames and collapsed today after a thunderous explosion that rocked the nearby neighbourhood.

SEAN CONNERY has branded a neighbour a “tyrant” in a fresh round of lawsuits.

Estee Lauder, who started a kitchen business blending face creams and built it into an international cosmetics empire, has died. She was 95.

Those who think pedigree dogs look like their owners are barking up the right tree, but matching a mongrel to its master is another thing, a study suggests.

IT WAS miserable yesterday in Manhattan. The rain teemed down all day with no sign of relenting. The streets of the Upper East Side were gridlocked.

A 60-YEAR-OLD church administrator admitted yesterday she was the mystery White House intern who had an affair with John F Kennedy four decades ago.