Frontrunner Mitt Romney and rivals for the Republican presidential nomination will face off in a high-stakes debate ahead of New Hampshire's primary.

Republicans are strategising to win more votes from the demographically critical US Hispanic group, without alienating the party's conservative base.

The Cape Cod resort area could in the next few years claim a new title of home to the United States' first offshore wind farm.

A small fishing town in Massachusetts is coming to terms with the news that 17 teenage girls at the local high school are pregnant.

For most people, messages from heaven are usually accompanied by choirs of angels, spectacular miracles or at least the odd burning bush.

Concert pianist Lily Dumont Mindus, who performed around the world after fleeing Nazi Germany, has died. She was 94. Mindus -- who died at her home on Monday -- performed as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by the time she was 15.

Labour costs do matter, and they will impact on unemployment rates and influence the number of jobs that South Africa will generate in the future. However, they do not constitute the most important factor behind the current unemployment crisis.