With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

The wife of US Senate Majority Leader...

US President Barack Obama has donated the $1.4 million that came with winning the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, the White House said...

Extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani military in the ongoing fight with insurgents have further added to human rights concerns in the country, the US State Department said...

American singer Lady Gaga has no boundaries on her relationships and says she won't mind falling in love with a...

President Barack Obama has delegated his authority to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to send mandatory certifications regarding the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal to the US Congress after every six...

United States President Barack Obama has appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the new certification authority to verify the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement after every six...

Jamie Jungers, who has won Howard Stern's Tiger Woods' mistress beauty pageant, has revealed that the golfer never tipped waitstaff when they were...

Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes, have collaborated on a fashion line for teenage girls that debuts this August exclusively at...

Mariah Carey has never met director Woody Allen, but she plans to work with him some...

American supermarket chain Walmart has received flak for selling black Barbie dolls at a lesser price than white...

Rapper Jay-Z is said to have scrapped plans to invest in a racetrack casino project in New York after state officials allegedly ordered all backers to hand over detailed records of their...

American scientists have developed a new nitric oxide-releasing cloth that may come handy in making a wrap for donor organs and therapeutic socks for...

A new American study has suggested new ways to improve heart...

The report regarding Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani extending the tenure of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General (DG) Lt.Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha by a year clearly suggests that nothing much has changed in the country and two still rule the...

A number of schools in the US were closed down on Wednesday after posted on a social networking...

An American man has earned himself a Guinness World Record after he built the world's largest ever house of...

The Pennsylvania woman linked this week to an alleged terrorist plot involving militant Muslims was not known in her neighbourhood for her extreme religious...

An average woman will spend 13,000 dollars on makeup during her lifetime, a new survey has...

A constant gum-chewing habit can cause wrinkles to pop up, health experts...

Federal prosecutors in the US have charged the owner of a California restaurant over alleged sales of whale meat, which was labelled...

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 per cent over the last...

WASHINGTON | Americans regained more of their shrunken wealth last quarter, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios. But the gain was less than in the previous two...

MATT HANLEY mhanley@stmedianetwork.com The U.S. Department of Justice has determined the merger of the nation's largest providers of voting machines is anti-competitive -- which leaves Fox Valley...

In this publicity image released by Fox, the 12 male finalists for the ninth season of the reality singing competetion, "American Idol," front row from left, Andrew Garcia, John Park, Tyler Grady,...

New York City is to pay up to 657.5 million US dollars (£437 million) in compensation to rescue and recovery workers affected by dust at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks. The settlement was...

(AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin, File)FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, a shell of what was once part of the facade of one of the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center rises above the rubble...

(AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESThis 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking...

(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)FILE - In this June 24, 2007, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., right, and his wife Landra Reid attend an event at Ford's Theater in Washington. A...

President Barack Obama is planning to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of central bank in Washington, The Wall Street...

One of America's proudest traditions is that everyone, no matter how reviled, has a right to be represented in court and that there are always courageous lawyers willing to do the job. It's...

It is absurd for critics of Keep America Safe to proclaim an American legal tradition of representing alien enemy combatants. There is none. To mask this inconvenient fact, critics speak in...

In Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better...

How can it fail with the creation of the first-ever task force on childhood obesity? Or establishing partner initiatives to provide healthier options in school cafeterias? Or working to earmark...

Iraq is written, Sunday's parliamentary election may well provide the final chapter. The national vote in which minority Sunni Arabs cast ballots along with Shiites and ethnic Kurds could be a...

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They are not doctors, but rather registered nurse practitioners who say they are able to increase access to health care and make it more...

States from New York to Hawaii that have been hard-hit by the economic downturn say they have either delayed refunds or are considering doing so because of budget...

Drivers are battling an epidemic of teeth-rattling potholes, jarring not only wheels and tires but also transportation departments trying to pay for road...

I t's the foreign policy that dare not speak its name. The Canadian government's desire to bolster fledgling free-market democracies in Latin America in an ideological competition with left-leaning,...

DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety...

NEW YORK: More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement...

Federal authorities are investigating the business dealings of Denny Hecker stretching as far back as a decade, according to affidavits unsealed this week. The FBI affidavits, which relate to...

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers. ...

TRENTON, N.J. — Authorities say four people were fatally struck by trains in the Northeast. The first death occurred in Mercer County in New Jersey on Thursday morning when Amtrak's...