New York

A billionaire real estate developer from Macau will go to trial in Manhattan on charges he bribed senior United Nations officials to support a multibillion-dollar conference centre he hoped to build.

New York state moved to end child marriages, raising the legal age to 18 from 14 to tackle the issue of underage marriage that is permissible across the United States.

The sculptor of Wall Street's "Charging Bull" statue is seeing red over New York City's decision to keep in place the "Fearless Girl" sculpture that now stares it down, saying it has changed the meaning of his work.