York, England News

YORK should be declared a human rights city within the next four years, placing it at the centre of international campaigns, a charity based in the city has said.

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New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and New York City Comptroller John Liu are pressuring Olympic advertisers to speak out against Russia's restrictions on gay and transgender rights before the Sochi Winter Games begin in February.

No First TransPennine Express trains are running between York and Newcastle. Trains between Leeds and Selby are being delayed because of an obstruction on the line.

This was the scene at Acomb Green when a tree fell on a parked car opposite the Sun Inn pub early this morning.

Fire crews are at the scene of a tree which has fallen the back of a property on the Main Street, and they are also dealing with a marquee that is in an unsafe position.

A A 663,000 scheme to improve York's public toilets in time for the Tour de France , with 40p charges being introduced, has been backed by city leaders.

This week, our Prison Time Media Project is examining the North Country's vast complex of prisons.

Some New York City taxpayers are angry over the announcement that outgoing police commissioner Ray Kelly will have his own private security team slated to cost New Yorkers $1.5 million.

Comprised of five boroughs, also known as counties, New York City has often been referred to as the capitol of the world.

Operation Hawk has been running since June, but a special day of action took place yesterday with increased patrols in city and town centres and extra officers on the roads, to clamp down on crime in the county and criminals from neighbouring areas.

". . . sometimes different cities follow one another on the same site and under the same name, born and dying without knowing one another, without communication among themselvesa The old postcards do not depict Maurilia as it was, but a different city which, by chance, was called Maurilia, like this one."

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WOMEN aren't very good at reading maps, and men are incapable of multi-tasking. Outdated stereotypes or just how our brains are wired? DEBRIS from the rocket carrying China's moon rover plummeted to earth more than a 1000km from the launch site, crashing into two homes.

The train's engineer says he nodded at the controls - and didn't catch himself until it was too late, according to a union official.

Former NYC Police Chief William 'Bill' Bratton attends the New York City Police Foundation 2012 gala at the Waldorf Astoria in 2012 in New York City.

Billy Joel smiles during news conference at Madison Square Garden, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 in New York.

Jewelyes Guitierrez, a transgender student at Hercules High School in California, talked to the school board about the bullying that led up to a fight with other girls.

A DRUG dealer who used a motor vehicle repair business as cover for a A 350,000 cannabis farm has been ordered to hand over some of his ill-gotten gains.

His friend David Petherick, of Scarcroft Hill, said Mr Hall had never spoken at length about his family, but he understood he had relatives in York and North Yorkshire.