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NY Newspaper Sparks Outcry By Printing Addresses Of Gun Owners

Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.12.2012 | UK

A New York newspaper has provoked controversy after publishing the names and addresses of people with pistol licences in two upstate counties. The ...

What Can We Expect From Our Future Cities? It's All About 'Playfullness', Argues Clare Reddington

Clare Reddington | Posted 10.02.2013 | Home
Clare Reddington

I remember clearly my first trip to New York City. I was seven and in awe of the skyscrapers and the sense of possibility. I remember too my uncle lying down on the floor to take a photo, which my younger, well-behaved self found shocking.

What 3 E's of New York Changed My Brain?

Professor Ian Robertson | Posted 08.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Professor Ian Robertson

The late writer Christopher Hitchens wrote that when you come to New York, you go to bed an hour later and wake up an hour earlier, and I can confirm this anecdotally myself. Noradrenaline is the key 'wake-up' drug of the brain and it may be that the shear repeated novelty and stimulus of this great city is chemically flooding my brain with this brain-protecting substance.

With Occupy Sandy Relief, Occupy Wall Street Becomes a Movement

Adam Jung | Posted 31.01.2013 | UK Politics
Adam Jung

Almost fifteen months later, with Occupy Sandy, we see dramatic achievements daily, communities empowering themselves, and a truly organic movement becoming more decentralized, more efficient, more focused, and receiving praise from some very unlikely corners.

Happy Birthday Woody Allen!

Jonathan Wakeham | Posted 29.01.2013 | UK Comedy
Jonathan Wakeham

As we head towards awards season, and the BIg Message movies lumber into cinemas to tell us what to think, Woody has carved a career out of asking the questions that all of us wrestle with: What is the point of life? Can we ever love one person? And how the hell do you catch a live lobster?

How I Tricked My Way Into Meeting Muhammad Ali

Tom Ward | Posted 26.01.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Tom Ward

How long should you brush your teeth for before you meet Muhammad Ali? I had eaten a taco earlier in the day. What a fool I had been. A young fool full of the naivety of New York. What would happen if I did a taco burp as I was introduced to Muhammad Ali? It did not bear thinking about.

From Victoria's Secret To Fan Meet and Greet, Rihanna's Whirlwind Two Weeks

Elliot Wagland | Posted 21.11.2012 | Home

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Where Is Kim Thinking Of Moving To?

WENN | Posted 11.11.2012 | Home

Kim Kardashian is the latest celebrity to start plotting a move to London, saying it reminds her of being in New York. Kim seems fairly used to get...

We Are Family

Juliet Simmons | Posted 07.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Juliet Simmons

When I was growing up one of my favourite books was To Kill a Mockingbird. I love the bit which says that "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

PHOTOS: 'We're Waiting For The Locusts And Pestilence'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 08.11.2012 | UK

New Yorkers could be forgiven for hoping for a return to some sort of normality after the drama of Hurricane Sandy and the presidential election in th...

Restaurant Gives Instagrammers What They Want

Jonathan Heath | Posted 06.01.2013 | UK Tech
Jonathan Heath

Diners at the newly opened Comodo in New York will be encouraged to photograph their food (as normal) but make sure to include the hashtag #ComodoMenu which uses Instagram to collate all the other guests images together.

Computer Animation Shows Explosive Development Of Superstorm Sandy

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 06.11.2012 | UK Tech

Using 800 infrared images scientists have produced an amazing computer animation that shows the incredible development of Hurricane Sandy – and its ...

Then And Now Pictures..

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill and Elliot Wagland | Posted 20.11.2012 | UK

With Superstorm Sandy - seeing is believing. Huffington Post UK's Picture Editor Elliot Wagland has tracked down some astonishing then-and-now pict...

Sandy has Changed the Terms of the US Debate

Iain Anderson | Posted 02.01.2013 | UK Politics
Iain Anderson

for me the key thing is that Sandy has brought front and centre political issues which have not reared themselves in the campaign up until now. Climate change impacts and America's eroding 1950s and 1960s infrastructure - Democratic talking points.

Brits Flee Storm Damage As New Yorkers Count The Cost

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 01.11.2012 | UK

Britons are heading back across the Atlantic after Superstorm Sandy left many stranded along the East Coast, with flights cancelled, power cuts, roads...

Who Will Be Running for the Democrats in 2016?

Nick Purves | Posted 31.12.2012 | UK Politics
Nick Purves

If President Obama loses this year, it is highly unlikely that he will run again in 2016. Only one president in US history has served non-consecutive terms and Obama would leave office with the perception that he was the man who failed to get the American economy going again. So it will be left to others to put themselves forward as possible candidates.

Brits Abandoned Passports And Belongings As Sandy Hits

Posted 31.10.2012 | UK

British nationals forced to leave their belongings in hotels when they fled Hurricane Sandy are being issued with emergency passports to help them get...

Sandy Claims 126 Lives And Raises Fears Of Food Shortages

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK

A day after Sandy made landfall on the American east coast, those affected in the US and Caribbean are counting the human, economic and political cost...

Superstorm Sandy Causes Coffins To Rise From Their Graves

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 01.11.2012 | UK

In a final insult to an already battered and bruised US East Coast population, Superstorm Sandy has caused coffins to rise up from the ground. The ...

UK Airlines To Resume Flights To New York

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK

UK airlines are hoping to resume flights to and from New York later on Wednesday after superstorm Sandy caused widespread devastation, throwing holida...

#FakeSandy Pictures Include Photoshopped Shark And Hollywood Movies (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.12.2012 | UK

Dramatic images of Superstorm Sandy appeared across Facebook, Twitter and blogs as the storm hit the US East Coast - but many were not what they seeme...

WATCH: Videos Reveal How Sandy Snapped Trees Liked Matchsticks

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK

The sheer power of superstorm Sandy has been shown in a number of videos uploaded to social networking site YouTube. The storm, which lashed out w...

School Children On New York Trip 'Safe And Well'

PA | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Parties of children from three Shropshire schools on trips to New York are reported to be safe, well and in good spirits following "super-storm" Sandy...

PICTURES: 'Apocalyptic' Destruction Left In Sandy's Wake

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK

Scenes of devastation were witnessed across the East Coast on Tuesday, as Americans woke up to apocalyptic-scale destruction. Superstorm Sandy tore...

Boris Johnson: London Stands 'Shoulder To Shoulder' With New York

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK Politics

Boris Johnson has written a letter of support to New York mayor Michael Bloomberg as Americans came to terms with the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy...