Occupy Wall Street (OWS) the movement which rallied against corporate greed and social inequality, celebrated its two-year anniversary on Tuesday, as activists returned to the site of their former Manhattan encampment in Zuccotti Park near the New York Stock Exchange.
34-year-old Aaron Alexis, the suspected gunman in the mass shooting that left 12 dead and many more injured at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, was born in Queens, and was seen as a quiet person
Glafira Rosales, a fradulent art dealer, pleaded guilty on Monday to masterminding a $80 million scheme in which she pawned off 63 fake works to two Manhattan salons, including the now defunct Knoedler Gallery. The pieces had actually been created by a struggling Queens artist over a 15-year period, and not by well-known 20th Century Expressionists, as she claimed.
The United Nations has confirmed in a report that chemical weapons were used "unequivocally and objectively," which Secretary General Ban Ki Moon constituted as a "war crime" on Monday, as reported by BBC News. The UN, however did not attribute blame who used the weapons in the Syrian civil war.
