The skin-tight dress Marilyn Monroe wore for her sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" before then US President John F. Kennedy at a 1962 gala was sold on Thursday for $4.8mn at an auction in Los Angeles.
Japan's premier Shinzo Abe headed to New York Thursday for talks with Donald Trump, the first leader to meet with the president-elect whose campaign pledges provoked anxiety over US foreign policy.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as a "serious" contender to become the next US secretary of state, a top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday.
Thousands of passengers were delayed worldwide after a computer glitch temporarily halted departures at United Airlines, the latest in a series of outages to affect rival companies in the industry.
A Long Island Rail Road passenger train derailed on Saturday near the community of New Hyde Park, New York, injuring as many as 29 people and halting service on the key transit line in both directions, railroad officials and police said.
At least three people were reported killed in a rush hour train crash on Thursday in New Jersey, with officials confirming more than 100 people were injured, many of them critical.
Adele's 25 has topped 10mn sales in the United States, her second album to cross the threshold as the English singer cements her status as the century's top-selling artist.
Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) will relocate to Msheireb Downtown Doha, a move aimed at creating the country’s own identity as a major financial centre in the region.
The Afghan-born American wanted in connection with weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey was taken into custody on Monday following a shootout with police, US television networks reported.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said there was still no indication that an explosion that injured 29 people in Manhattan on Saturday was linked to international terrorism as investigators scoured the scene of the blast.
An Indian teenager who lost an eye and whose face was brutally disfigured in an acid attack walked the New York catwalk to whoops and cheers on Thursday in what she called a life-changing experience.
Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the violence that has plagued the annual event, authorities said on Monday.
