US President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to defeat violent extremists following the attempted bombing of a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day and has ordered a full investigation amid media reports that the suspect has links to al Qaeda.
The Taliban have released a video of captured US soldier Robert Bergdahl, six months in to his captivity. The Taliban want the release of their prisoners from US detention centres in exchange for Bergdahl's freedom.
A massive storm in the center of the US has forced scores of churches to cancel Christmas services as blizzards and freezing rain brought treacherous travel conditions for millions. At least 19 deaths were attributed to the storm.
The US Senate passed a sweeping health care reform bill early Thursday by 60 votes to 39, extending coverage to 31 million Americans and landing President Barack Obama a major political victory.
Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff was moved last week from the cell where he is serving a 150-year jail sentence to a hospital to be treated for hypertension, a US prison official said, denying reports of assault on the disgraced financier.
An American Airlines Boeing 737 overshot the runway while landing at the international airport at Kingston, Jamaica, on Tuesday night. Local officials reported 91 mainly minor injuries, but no fatalities.
The parents in Colorado's balloon boy hoax were handed jail sentences Wednesday for their roles in the bizarre publicity stunt which became a worldwide media sensation.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has accused the FARC rebels of killing Luis Cuellar, the Caqueta state governor, whose body was found on Tuesday just a day after he was kidnapped in the country's south.
The FBI has released hundreds of pages from classified files concerning late pop icon Michael Jackson, revealing FBI-gathered information on the various sex-abuse cases involving the star, who died of an overdose in June.
US President Barack Obama has tapped former Bush administration adviser Howard Schmidt as his cybsersecurity coordinator, the White House announced Tuesday."Howard will have the important responsibility of orchestrating the many important ...
Colombia has announced it will build a new military base near its border with Venezuela, in a move likely to further strain its tense ties with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Friday that the base, located on the ...
The US Senate voted on Saturday voted in favor of a military spending bill worth hundreds of billions of dollars, with much of the money going to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, Time magazine's "person of the year", has received the support of the Senate Banking Committee to stand for a second term. Bernanke's nomination will go to full Senate vote after the holiday recess.
Locked up 35 years for child rape and kidnapping, James Bain was finally set free by a Florida judge after a DNA test proved he was innocent of the crimes."Mr Bain, I'm now signing the order... you're a free man.
During the WTO meeting's in Geneva, the European Union announced that an agreement has been reached with Latin Americas countries over long-disputed import tariff on bananas. The deal marks the end of the oldest trade war in the WTO’s history.
