New York has unveiled the most ambitious plan yet for the payphone of the future offering WiFi connections, free calls and more.

The Waldorf Astoria sale to a Chinese buyer is likely to spark a national security review to assess potential spying risks.

Shop up a storm at these Big Apple landmarks.

It is one of New York's most successful law firms, a company that has won US$3 billion ($3.85 billion) in payouts for sick Ground Zero workers, diet pill users and asbestos cancer sufferers.

Hot-shot Kiwi chef Matt Lambert will be adding NZ clams and cheeses to the menu of his Michelin star New York restaurant after a visit here this month.

Voters in San Francisco will decide next month whether to tax sodas and other sugary drinks to reduce ailments including obesity and diabetes.

Fears frenzied attack on New York police officers by hatchet-wielding man could be linked to terrorism.

The NY real-estate industry is mobilising to kill a proposed levy on non-resident owners of luxury apartments.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully says winning a seat on the United Nations Security Council does not mean New Zealand is committed to military action in Iraq.

When Facebook announced it was going to list on the stock exchange, it became the hottest stock offering in internet history.

The planet will be drowned in love and good intentions from the United Nations today when leaders from around the world gather for a climate summit that will try to give fresh impetus to global negotiations.

Thirteen years have passed since the day New York firefighter John Mills' life changed forever.

The Big Apple's top restaurants are regular haunts of many of the famous and infamous.

The guys who hang off Madison Ave in East Harlem are not what most people would describe as news-and-current affairs junkies.

One of Shortland Street's brightest stars is off to New York.

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Is it a lamp, a work of art, a piece of furniture, or a magical prop from a science fiction film?

Zoe Walker checks into a 'Baby Grand' hotel in The Big Apple.

There'll never be enough time to do everything you want to in New York City, but Wynne Gray gives it a very good crack.

Television tourism is whipping up a storm in New York and New Jersey where fans can live as their heroes.

He may be one of the world's richest men but American multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg couldn't do much about Queenstown's unseasonable summer weather.

A New York City father began posting harrowing tweets online revealing how his high rise apartment building was burning below him - trapping him and his family inside.

A US court says negligence was not to blame for a third World Trade Center tower collapse on September 11, absolving a developer of the building's destruction.

Karen Walker just shown her latest collection called New Rose in New York - a range described in the press notes as "an alternative view to prettiness". "This town ain't big enough for both of us is the message - art school girl vs. working girl." Great dirty colours, oversized silhouettes and dripping rose prints.

Intricately embellished dresses, fluid silk gowns, and glamorous pops of jewel-toned fur hit the runway emoting a kind of effortless elegant we've come to expect from Carlolina Herrera.

America's attention is turning once again to turkeys as the Thanksgiving harvest holiday approaches next week, and a flock of the wild birds in NYC has caused a heated debate.