The suspect approached the woman on a train car and intentionally set her on fire before fleeing the scene, police said. 

Man arrested following woman's death after being set on fire on New York subway

Denise Morgan, from Tullyallen in Co Louth was found at a home in the Glendale area of Queens in the early hours of Saturday morning. 

Tributes paid to woman shot dead in New York City apartment

The civil rights leader's family announced their bid on the anniversary of his assassination.

The pair managed to save the ill man just moments before a train pulled up to the platform.

The gunman wounded two police officers in the shootings. 

A bucket of golden flakes worth £1.2m was taken from the back of an armoured truck in midtown Manhattan.

A New York cop has become an internet sensation after a tourist secretly photographed him giving a barefoot homeless man a pair of boots.