Proof again that the world belongs to stubborn people... Jewish communities all across Judea and Samaria (AKA the West Bank) celebrated the end of Israel's 10 month unilateral building freeze today by doing what they do best...building and improving their communities. The Jews of Kiryat Netafim marked the end of the construction moratorium by laying a cornerstone for a badly needed kindergart...

The call came early that morning, my mother's voice tight, low, worried. I was sweeping the floor or loading the dishwasher, busy with some mundane task, no thought for the world outside my door. "Turn on the tv, the World Trader Center was hit. A plane crashed into the building, turn on the tv!"  I watched the burning building, phone held to my ear as the second plane hit. Jesus, I coul...

Building Deemed Less Than A Landmark Now that those in power positions in New York City such as Mayor Bloomberg have signed on to the Ground Zero Mosque, where do we go from here? Now that we have shown our religious tolerance and upheld the virtues of the American ideal, what is next in the process for the building of Cordoba House mere steps away from the remnants of the World Trade Center, site...

Gordon Brown has held discussions with world leaders in New York on the state of the world economy, as US president George Bush unveils a $700 billion (£377 billion) rescue plan for America's banking system.

Walked out at 7am this morning into a blizzard, which is par for the course this time of year in this part of the world. Fortunately, the Cambridge Innovation Centre, which we visited this morning was only a short walk away. Whilst people may have an image of high technology incubators, they would have been surprised by this building which was essentially serviced offices, albeit in the heart of o...

There was a "sit-down and occupy the Kimmel Building" protest at New York University recently. It started. Then it stopped. Click through for the videos.

After a six-month hiatus, we're planning to get the blog up and running as a regular source of NUJ York news. Watch this space...

Ten years ago today, the worst attack on American soil occurred. You will always remember exactly where you were when you first heard the news of a plane hitting the Twin Towers. On that dreadful Tuesday morning, I was beginning my final year at high school in a small town in Long Island that is not that far from New York City. That day, New York, America and the world changed forever. The zealots...

Welsh Assembly Government staff are to move out of New York's iconic Chrysler building and into British Consulate offices to save cash.

We live in interesting times, but where exactly will those times lead us? French intellectual Laurent Cohen-Taugi addressed this question when he presented his latest book The Shape of the World to Come, charting the geopolitics of a new century to the Carnegie Council in New York City last month. David Stewart at The Columbia University