At least three people are dead and two are injured after a boat overturned near New York on Sunday, officials said.

The boat capsized at around noon in the Ambrose Channel between Queens and Staten Island, the city's main shipping shipping route, as an urgent search is still underway for a passenger.

Three people have died and two people are injured after a boat capsized in New York City's freezing waterways on Sunday afternoon. A sixth person is still missing following the tragedy, which unfolded at around noon in the channel between Brooklyn and Staten Island,

Two Italian military fighter jets flanked American Airlines Flight 292 as it arrived but the Federal Aviation Administration did not elaborate on what was the security issue aboard the plane.

An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi was diverted to Rome due to a security concern the airline later said was not credible

An airport spokesman says an American Airlines flight en route from New York to New Delhi has turned around over the Caspian Sea and landed in Rome