Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge after more than 500 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.
President of the Mrs World Organisation David Marmel has invited Mrs Congeniality 2005 Doan Thi Kim Hong to chair the jury of the Mrs World 2011 competition.
The US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was headed on a multi-nation tour through Asia and the Gulf ahead of two major conferences on Afghanistan's future..
Anwar al-Awlaqi, an Al-Qaeda leader wanted over attacks in the US, was killed Friday in an air raid in Yemen hailed by President Barack Obama as a "major blow" to terrorists.
Typhoon Nalgae was poised to hit the Philippines on Saturday, threatening more than a million people living in areas still flooded from a previous storm, officials said.