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Luigi Mangione agrees to New York extradition

The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO will return to New York to face murder charges.

19/12/2024

USA

CEO shooting: Luigi Mangione charged with murder as act of terrorism

Luigi Mangione has been indicted for the 4 December killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, facing multiple murder charges, including first-degree murder.

18/12/2024

Business

Italy: Milan's Via MonteNapoleone wins out as world's priciest street

The average shopper on Via MonteNapoleone spent €2,500 per purchase between August and November - the highest average receipt in the world, according to the tax-free shopping firm Global Blue.

17/12/2024

Business

Bookstore staffers receive holiday bonuses from author James Patterson

"Booksellers save lives. Period," the author said in a statement through his publisher, Little, Brown and Company. "I’m happy to be able to acknowledge them and all their hard work this holiday season."

11/12/2024

USA

CEO shooting: What we know about suspect Luigi Mangione

Police have charged a 26-year-old man in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO Bryan Thompson last week.

10/12/2024

USA

New evidence comes to light in hunt for health care CEO's killer

US authorities, who are still probing the suspect’s identity, believe the gunman took a bus from Atlanta to New York ahead of the attack.

06/12/2024

Art

Lost works by Haring and Basquiat revived at reopened Luna Luna park

Luna Luna, a long-lost 1987 art carnival featuring iconic works by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, has been resurrected in New York City after decades in storage.

27/11/2024

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Pianist Tom Yun reveals Chopin’s hidden creation

An unknown musical work attributed to European composer Frédéric Chopin was performed by pianist Tony Siqi Yun.

21/11/2024

Art

Famous duct-taped banana sells for €5.8 million at art auction

Sotheby’s had estimated its value between $1 million and $1.5 million (€924,000 and €1.4 million). It sold for $6.2 million (€5.8 million) in NYC.

21/11/2024

Art

Painting by René Magritte makes surrealist history at auction

This is the first time that a painting by the Belgian artist René Magritte has sold for more than $100 million.

20/11/2024

Lifestyle

How a subway tunnel became NYC’s most unlikely therapy spot

Commuters are invited to share their thoughts, fears and dreams on the open wall, creating a collective expression of the city’s heart and mind.

13/11/2024

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New York City's underground tunnel becomes public therapy couch

Artist Matthew Chavez is installing his participatory art project called Subway Therapy in the New York underground.

12/11/2024

USA

New York presidential election 2024 results: Kamala Harris wins

The Democratic candidate has won the New York race and secured the state’s 28 Electoral College votes.

06/11/2024

Culture news

Watch: Timothée Chalamet crashes his own look-alike contest

Dune actor Timothée Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own look-alike contest in NYC, thrilling fans and causing such a frenzy that police had to disperse the crowd.

28/10/2024

Art

Going bananas: Viral fruit artwork to auction for staggering amount

The world’s going bananas – and now an infamous artwork heading to auction will a-peel to wallets...

28/10/2024

Design

NYC's Vessel structure reopens with new suicide prevention measures

Manhattan's Vessel has reopened with enhanced safety features, including steel mesh nets, after a series of suicides led to its 2021 closure.

22/10/2024

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Giant sculpture of a pigeon in New York has the city in a flutter

Iván Argote's five-metre-high sculpture, entitled "Dinosaur", depicts a giant pigeon overlooking 10th Avenue in New York.

18/10/2024

Taste

London, Madrid, Copenhagen: Europe’s best pizzerias outside of Italy

These European cities rank among the best for pizza.

14/10/2024

Art

How Olafur Eliasson will take over Piccadilly Circus and Times Square

Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is set to take over some of the world’s biggest public spaces in his most impressive installation piece yet.

27/09/2024

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Dissident groups protest Iran government outside United Nations

Protesters outside the UN in New York displayed images of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, with a snake’s head in opposition to the Iranian government.

25/09/2024