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'Total anarchy': New York smashed by swarms of armed looters

Streets have been overrun by hundreds of people wielding baseball bats and other weapons.

America's enormous anger explained

George Floyd is just one of many black people killed by injustice in America.

Mayhem in America: Cities looted, line of police cars destroyed as US burns with rage

Americans in many cities woke up to charred, glass-strewn streets after a night of rage.

How Covid-19 is reshaping urban lives

Harry de Quetteville asks: Will our cities ever be the same again?

George Floyd protests: 19-year-old man shot dead

A 19-year-old man has been shot dead in Detroit after a gunman opened fire on protesters.

'It's the death towers': How the Bronx became NY's virus hot spot

New York Times: Area has NY's highest rates of virus cases, hospitalisations and deaths.

The bird watcher, that incident and his conflicted feelings on her fate

New York Times: "I don't know if her life needed to be torn apart."

Watch: Dog-walker fired from job after racist tirade

Amy Cooper let her cocker spaniel off its leash, then a man started filming.

'This is not good': New Yorkers flock to parks

New Yorkers have descended on public spaces. But the backlash has been swift.

Horror as truck with 100 bodies inside discovered on New York street

A funeral home had resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks.

Jobless guides hope tourists will return for another bite of Big Apple

Roughly 300,000 people are employed by tourism in New York City.

One rich NY hospital got Warren Buffett's help. This one got duct tape

New York Times: The inequities of New York City's health care system are clear.

NY mayor breaks up rabbi's funeral, lashes out over virus distancing

New York Times: Hundreds of mourners who gathered for the funeral were sent home.

Haunted by Covid patient deaths: Hero doctor takes her own life

Grieving father says his daughter is another casualty of the Covid 19 pandemic.

Covid 19: Photos of a global pandemic

A week of images document the courage, the anguish and the sheer impact of Covid 19.

A 190kg tiger living in a New York apartment? Yes, it happened

New York Times: Before Tiger King, there was New York's infamous Tiger Man.