New York
Belly dancing sinks NYC woman's disability claim
A New York City woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had her payments slashed after her ex-husband spotted online photos of her belly da
Citi earnings drop 32% in first quarter
US banking giant Citigroup reported Monday first-quarter earnings plunged 32 percent from a year earlier, but stressed its fundamental capital strength had improved over the year.
Net income fell to
Long Island serial killer taunted family: report
The suspected serial killer believed to have dumped slain prostitutes along a lonely New York beach taunted the sister of one victim and confessed to the murder, a report said on Friday.
The family o
It’s tough being a woman of colour: Padma
Supermodel, popular TV host, Emmy award nominee, these are few of Padma Lakshmi’s achievements but the Indian beauty says that her way up was tough being a woman of colour and an immigrant.
John Galliano sacked from his own label
After being dumped by Christian Dior over anti-Semitic remarks, designer John Galliano has now been sacked from his own label.
The board at John Galliano, 91 per cent owned by Christian Dior SA, handed the job over to the label’s in-house fashion team but claims it has no plans to sell the brand, Women’s Wear Daily reported.
11-year-olds in US can now order condoms via mail
Children as young as 11 in Philadelphia city in the US can now order free condoms via mail in a new campaign launched to reduce sexually transmitted diseases.
The programme, launched by the departmen
Oops! Statue of Liberty postage stamp shows Las Vegas
After printing 3 billion copies of a new postage stamp bearing an image of the Statue of Liberty, the United States Postal Service received a strange question from a stamp collector.
Did postal offic
'Superman' comes to Rajaratnam's rescue
A New York education advocate featured in an award-winning documentary 'Waiting for Superman' has vouched for hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam embroiled in the biggest insider trading case in the US.
Up to 10 bodies linked to New York serial killer
New York police stepped up the hunt on Tuesday for a suspected serial killer after a human skull and bones, potential ninth and 10th victims, were found in separate locations on Long Island.
Police b
NY zoo cobra named Mia: "missing in action"
The venomous Egyptian cobra that slithered its way to fame by escaping its enclosure at New York's Bronx Zoo for a week before being recaptured has been given a name, Mia, as in ‘missing in action.’
