United States, New York: An Occupy Wall Street protester is arrested after marching through downtown Manhattan, after New York City police removed the activists from Zuccotti Park. Arrests in the Occupy movement nationally have surpassed 1,000, with 177 being charged by the NYPD this Thursday in only the first few hours. Now New York is admitting that journalists that they credentialed are among those... 

Some of the evicted protesters reconvened in Foley Square. Anger and disappointment is erupting from New York City this afternoon, after a judge ruled that Occupy Wall Street protesters must discontinue camping at Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. After hours of deliberating, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled this afternoon that protesters would be prohibited from continuing their occupation of Zuccotti... 

Fallen: A tree blocks the path in the Bronx, New York City. Three dead and two million without power as New York hit by biggest ever October snow storm… and there’s more on the way! New York has been hit by more than one inch of snowfall before Halloween for the first time ever – with experts predicting much more on the way. Three people were killed as the classic nor’easter... 

OWS protesters in New York City. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters in New York are planning a new mass rally against bank foreclosures which have left thousands of Americans homeless over the past years, Press TV reports. OWS organizers say protesters are to gather in Liberty and Square from there march to Queens, the foreclosure capital of New York. Earlier, about 400 New York protesters marched... 

Arrested: Video footage shows a woman being detained outside of a Citibank branch in Manhattan after she attempts to enter with her chequebook in hand. The banks fight back: Customers locked in and arrested after attempting to close their accounts in Occupy Wall Street protests. Banks across America appear to be fighting the growing protest against income disparity and rising fees as the Occupy Wall... 

Protesters on the lower deck of the Brooklyn Bridge. Over 700 protesters were arrested during the March on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York the arrests come after more than two weeks of constant protest by activists who say that Wall Street has become too greedy. The protests are called Occupy Wall Street and is organized by the Canadian anti-consumerist group Adbusters. Protesters have been camping... 

Wall St protests: Police harsh, media silent? Some 80 people have been arrested in lower Manhattan as the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” protest enters its second week. Police have been harsh in quelling the rally. However, not much of their violence is being reported by the mainstream media. Tensions are rising near Wall Street, where hundreds of demonstrators fed up with the existing financial... 

Zuccotti Park is a block away from the New York Stock Exchange a usually quiet location, however for the past week it has transformed into the headquarters of “Occupy Wall Street”, the site of demonstrations calling on the US government to break its close ties with big banks and corporations. The Protests have turned into what can be best described as anti-capitalist demonstrations attracting... 

Controversial space: The buildings that are to become the Park51 mosque and cultural centre, just two blocks from where the twin towers stood before the 9/11 terror attacks. The first part of Park51, the controversial Lower Manhattan Islamic community centre, is opening on Wednesday with an art exhibition featuring photographs of children. Just a few blocks away from the site where the Twin Towers... 

As the world remembers 3000 people killed in the United States on the tragic events of 9/11, demonstrators gathered in New York City in a memorial for the victims of the “global war on terror”. Organizers say the event is to commemorate fallen soldiers and those forgotten. Led by artists, activists and organizations across the country the memorial is to cry out in protest and grief with... 

Police have a man in custody after he allegedly fired shots into the air at the West Indian Day Parade before fleeing the scene in a cab. Gunfire erupted today near the massive West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn not far from where Mayor Michael Bloomberg was marching as the entire city reeled from a epidemic of shootings over the past two days. By noon today, a total of 46 people had been shot in the... 

Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera was photographed with this giant rat at the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn. It sounds like an urban legend: giant mutant-looking rats roaming a city housing project. Only there’s a picture. A photo making the rounds shows Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera minutes after he speared the humongous rodent with a pitchfork at the Marcy Houses. It’s covered in... 

New York is facing an unprecedented hurricane shutdown as officials ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and a full closure of the city’s public transport network. The sensational news comes as storm experts and politicians today laid out an apocalyptic warning of what will happen to Manhattan if Hurricane Irene makes a direct hit on New York City. Governor Andrew Cuomo... 

How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash? The Dow is now downmore than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days. So can we now call this “The Stock Market Crash of 2011″? Today the Dow was down 519 points. Yesterday, an announcement by the Federal Reserve indicating that the Fed would keep interest rates near zero until mid-2013 helped the Dow surge... 

Protesters gather at a large anti-war rally in Union Square on April 9, 2011 in New York City. Thousands of Americans have staged a protest rally in New York City to voice concerns over US war and foreign policies as well as the economy and the persisting reduction of social programs. Scores of peace, labor and community activists took to the streets of the major commercial city on Saturday to call...