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Celebrities have burst onto New York Fashion Week, donning couture red dresses made by some of America's top designers and strutting the catwalk to raise money for heart disease.

• 07 февраля 2014, 15:49

New York Fashion Week explodes onto a snowy Manhattan Thursday, kicking off the fall/winter 2014 season with a new look and 300 catwalk presentations before the industry shows head to Europe.

• 06 февраля 2014, 11:07

Like Mike Tyson in 1980, Gennady "GGG" Golovkin was KOing his opponents throughout 2013.

• 03 февраля 2014, 17:04

Four Old Masters stolen by the Nazis, including Hitler's deputy Hermann Goering, go under the hammer in New York this week where they are expected to fetch up to $1 million.

• 28 января 2014, 16:16

Shivering in Arctic temperatures and reeling from a brutal winter snowstorm, elderly New Yorkers got the surprise of their lives when five top chefs suddenly appeared with meals on wheels.

• 23 января 2014, 12:51

Snow blanketed much of the northeastern United States Tuesday, grounding thousands of flights and causing chaos on the roads as forecasters warned that a brutal cold spell was on its way.

• 22 января 2014, 12:32

Former New York police officers and firefighters were among 106 people indicted Tuesday over a "massive fraud" worth hundreds of millions of dollars, some in connection with the September 11 attacks.

• 08 января 2014, 12:49

In 2014 the scholarship is having two new categories - Media and Cultural Studies - that include journalism, cinematography, TV journalism and other similar majors.

• 26 декабря 2013, 18:00

The teenage daughter of New York's incoming mayor confessed on Christmas Eve to smoking pot and underage drinking in a video aimed at helping others battling depression.

• 25 декабря 2013, 16:31

The Latvian filmmaker Victor Vilks is planning to make a new movie that will be a response to Borat on behalf of Kazakhstan.

• 17 декабря 2013, 11:37

The first book written in what is today the United States of America fetched $14.2 million in New York on Tuesday, becoming the world's most expensive printed book sold at auction.

• 27 ноября 2013, 13:12

Yahoo made a fresh move Monday to expand as a media group, naming a star "global anchor" to be the face of its digital news brand.

• 26 ноября 2013, 15:31

A New York City law banning cigarette sales to people under 21 was signed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday, the latest move in the Big Apple's war on smoking.

• 20 ноября 2013, 17:00

A young Frenchman who weighs 230 kilograms (500 pounds) and was deemed too heavy to fly on a jetliner arrived in New York Tuesday to head home by ship.

• 13 ноября 2013, 16:38

Some of the finest Impressionist and Modern art offered for auction by Christie's in New York fell short of expectations Tuesday despite strong interest from buyers in the middle market.

• 06 ноября 2013, 15:38

Voters in New York picked Bill de Blasio to be the city's first Democratic mayor in a generation, in one of a handful of elections seen as having considerable national importance.

• 06 ноября 2013, 12:35

The 'Bad Boy', Gennady Golovkin, WBA world middleweight champion from Kazakhstan, shared the plans for the Curtis fight.

• 06 ноября 2013, 01:07

Director Peter Jackson gave fans a sneak peek of his latest Tolkien epic Tuesday, revealing he is working non-stop to get "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" ready to premiere next month.

• 05 ноября 2013, 17:35

Abel Sanchez, the coach of the World Middleweight Champion Gennedy Golovkin, has shared his opinion on the Golovkin vs Stevens fight.

• 04 ноября 2013, 23:29

Gennady Golovkin from Kazakhstan has beaten American boxer Curtis Stevens to retain his WBA world middleweight title.

• 03 ноября 2013, 18:15