Russia allegedly has a nuclear doomsday missile that would be six times more deadly than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Local media reported police alleging that a 16-year-old had thrown bleach at classmate, injuring herself and four others in the process.
Time Out has ranked 32 major world cities and three United Kingdom cities have managed to make the top 15.
A male sleepwalker fell out of the eighth floor window of an apartment in Manhattan's Lower East Side, and survived thanks to scaffolding that broke his descent.
Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán was extradited to the US in January last year and now faces trial in New York.
New York bar says customers will be asked to leave if they use the word incorrectly in conversation.
Women's marches were held in many US cities, as well as London, Paris, Rome and Berlin, to mark the first anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration.
Hundreds of Haitian immigrants marched on New York on Friday to against comments allegedly made by President Trump in which he referred to their homeland as a "s**thole".
Other monuments that some regard as problematic still remain, including one of Christopher Columbus.
New technology means that the case which has been unsolved for 23 years has finally reached a conclusion.
Shanta Myers, 36, her girlfriend Brandi Mells, 22, and Myers' children, Shanise, five, and 11-year-old Jeremiah were killed at a house in upstate New York on 21 December.
Firefighters have been called to Trump Tower in New York to tackle a blaze that appears to be coming from the roof.
A Twitter user named Ziggy went viral with his account of "nearly getting killed" by police in Nassau County, New York, when officers responded to a falsely reported armed robbery.
A 26-year-old man from New York City has been sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison after he forced his girlfriend to walk the streets naked a punishment.
Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' exposé on Donald Trump and Steve Bannon promises to be one of the biggest selling political books of all time - but who is the controversial writer?
Recent cold snap is set to become deteriorate as a freezing meteorological "bomb cyclone" is predicted to affect East Coast.
The bone-chillingly cold temperatures have frozen parts of Niagara Falls and caused a mile-long pile-up on Interstate 90 near Buffalo, New York.
Four people found dead on Boxing Day in a New York basement apartment have now been identified and thought to have been victims of what police are describing as a quadruple homicide,
Javier Morales, 28, was arrested on charges of rape, sex abuse, resisting arrest and obstructing for a case in New York City.
A 16-year-old girl has been gunned down in her Brooklyn apartment by a man she allegedly rejected for a date.
The man filmed his girlfriend walking the streets naked and shared footage of the punishment - which he says is an African custom.
Police have offered $5,000 for information on a couple accused of using a stolen credit card to purchase sky diving trips in New York.