Rediff.com picks top 10 photographs from events that unfolded across the world last week.
In a major political boost to Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an otherwise fierce critic of the president, has endorsed his bid for re-election, citing his efforts in dealing with climate change as the city recovers from the destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy.
The 125th birth anniversary of the iconic Statue of Liberty was celebrated in New York with events including a gun salute, fireworks and naturalisation ceremony for 125 immigrants organised to commemorate the day.
The controversy about the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero "has highlighted the inner strength of America's pluralist society as well as the raw sentiments of some politicians," according to Srinagar-born Professor Sayyid M Syeed, national director of the Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances of the Islamic society of North America.
Formula One commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone has dismissed reports from Australia he was visiting New York this week to discuss the possibility of staging a Grand Prix on Staten Island.
A 27-year-old man, who was allegedly an al Qaeda sympathiser, has been arrested in New York by law enforcement authorities on charges that he planned to carry out terror attacks in the city targetting government workers, military personnel and officials in New York.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday said the new terror threat to the city ahead of the 9/11 anniversary is "credible but has not been corroborated". He asked people to remain vigilant as law enforcement officials further heightened security across the city.
The number of Harvard alumni who are billionaires swelled to 62, up from 54 in 2009, 'more than any other American university by a long shot,' Forbes said.
United States President Barack Obama hosted the first state dinner of his presidency for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House on Tuesday night.
The heiresses chose to live a low key life, spending much of their time trying to live up to their family's legacy.
A decade after the Twin Towers were razed to the ground in the 9/11 attacks, an altered Ground Zero will be unveiled to the public, with waterfalls, reflecting pools and hundreds of trees at the site honouring the memory of the nearly 3000 victims of the terror strike.
Michael Bloomberg, who is reportedly considering an independent run at the US presidency, derided xenophobic politicians and said immigration and diversity were good for America
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's police chief Ray Kelly have said that had the bomb seized and neutralized exploded, it could have had a devastating impact on the city.
When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg formally inaugurated the Sports Museum of America May 7, Sameer Ahuja saw a dream transform into vibrant reality. The nation's first and only interactive, multi-media all-sports museum experience proved an instant hit, with people lining the street before its 26, Broadway entrance, just across the street from the Statue of Liberty ferry, to get in. The building had earlier housed the Standard Oil Company, founded by John D Rockefeller.
The New York police on Sunday defused a car bomb in the heart of New York's famous tourist hub of Times Square after evacuating thousands of visitors, residents and theatre-goers from the area, averting what could have been a "very deadly event" in the US.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has set a cat among pigeons by his decision to change his political affiliation from Republican to independent
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest scheme to decongest New York is to carve a 10 km path through the centre of Manhattan and turn it a pedestrian zone for select times in a day.
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Thousands gathered at 'Ground Zero' in lower Manhattan fell silent at 8:46 am EDT, when the first plane struck the WTC two years back.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday arrived in Frankfurt en route to New Delhi after concluding his visit to the US where he met President Barack Obama and agreed to make joint efforts to dismantle terrorist safe havens besides stepping up cooperation in defence, energy, economy and space.
The 70-year-old leader had a disappointing Super Tuesday that included a third-place finish in her home state of Massachusetts.
Indian-American governors Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley, as well as an Indian-origin scribe were among those on the receiving end of Donald Trump's barbs on social media, according to a New York Times compilation of people, places and things the Republican has insulted since declaring his bid for presidency.
India poses a "bigger problem" than China when it comes to fighting climate change, particularly on reducing carbon emissions, Democratic presidential aspirant and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has claimed. During his maiden appearance on a Democratic presidential primary debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Bloomberg said it was "ridiculous" of the Trump administration to take the US out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, as he outlined his approach to tackling climate change.
The "Super Tuesday", or March 3 presidential primaries, were held in as many as 15 states including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. Biden, 77, registered impressive victories in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Arkansas, propelling him as the frontrunner in the primaries. However, Sanders, 78, by winning big in the State of California -- which sends 415 pledge delegates -- reflected the fight to win Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Donald Trump was not over yet.
Harris, 54, would beat Trump most handily -- by a 10-point margin -- if the election were held now, according to an online poll carried out by Axios.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a fraud, a liar and a hypocrite, top Democratic leaders and speakers at the party's national convention said as they lashed out at the billionaire from New York.
Clinton and Trump came face-to-face at a white-tie charity dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, barely 24 hours after they clashed with each other at the third and final vitriolic presidential debate in Las Vegas.
'We have never before seen an Indian prime minister's visit to the United States so heavily business-oriented and so packed with meetings with the US business community.' Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com reports from Washington, DC.
More than a year after he was nominated by President Barack Obama, the US Senate, defying the powerful pro-gun lobby National Rifle Association, voted to confirm Dr Vivek Hellegere Murthy as the first Indian American US Surgeon General and the youngest ever at age 37, in a cliff-hanger of a 51-43 vote.
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