Matthew Sollars

The city's two candidates for mayor — Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Democratic City Comptroller William Thompson, Jr. — slugged it out for an hour Tuesday night in their first televised mayoral debate.

The names of ten New York City police officers who died from illnesses possibly related to the Sept. 11 attacks were added to a granite memorial wall on Tuesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rebuffed a U.S. request to get tough with Iran on Tuesday, saying the threat of new sanctions would prove "counterproductive" to negotiations on its nuclear program.

Jury selection in the trial of two former managers at investment Bear Stearns got underway in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

A leading art historian says he has found the first major work by Leonardo da Vinci to be unveiled for 100 years.

The world will need to increase food production by 70% over the next 40 years to feed the world's growing population, the United Nations food agency predicts.