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/ 5 September 2011
World Bank president Robert Zoellick said the world economy was entering a "new danger zone". What can policymakers do about it?
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/ 5 September 2011
The decade since the terror attacks in the US has been filled with needless destruction — but no revenge.
United States President Barack Obama has travelled to flood-stricken New Jersey to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Irene.
Embattled US President Barack Obama is running neck-and-neck with his top Republican rivals for the White House in 2012, according to a new poll.
President Barack Obama is preparing a September jobs package to crank up employment but is hamstrung by budget cuts and a tight debt ceiling.
A relative of President Barack Obama was arrested last week outside Boston on charges of drunk driving, an official said on Monday.
United States stocks are setting up for another turbulent week that will begin with a focus, oddly enough, on the weather.
President Barack Obama has warned that the US east coast was in for a "long 72 hours" as he led his government’s response to Hurricane Irene.
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed on the need for "concerted action" to spur global growth.
President Barack Obama has admitted that Americans were not satisfied with his record on the economy, as long-serving aides launched a fight back.
Republicans may need to give up hopes of a better candidate defeating Barack Obama in 2012 presidential race.
Barack Obama has accused Congress of holding back the US economic recovery by blocking "common sense" measures he said would create jobs.
Tanks rumbled into Homs a day after security forces killed at least 33 protesters across Syria, adding urgency to a UN mission expected this weekend.
President Barack Obama has begun a bus tour of the Midwest, focusing on jobs and the economy, and aiming to leave behind doubts about his leadership.
President Barack Obama joined key British and Saudi allies in demanding that the Syrian regime "immediately" halt its brutal crackdown.
Having said no to taxes for months, Republicans now are saying maybe in the face of public disgust over a deadlock in the US Congress.
Six Republican presidential hopefuls will compete in the Iowa straw poll — an unofficial test of campaign strength.
A US court on Friday dealt a new blow to the health care reform law, declaring its centrepiece provision unconstitutional.
US President Barack Obama said on Monday he inherited many of the country’s problems with high debt and deficits when he entered the White House.
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s on Friday downgraded the US credit rating for the first time since 1917.
TheUS was headed toward an unprecedented default, and all Washington wanted to talk about was the manner in which the president had left a room.
A last-gasp deal to raise the US borrowing limit cleared its biggest hurdle in Congress on Monday, warding off the risk of a debt default.
President Barack Obama on Sunday announced a last-minute deal to raise the US borrowing limit and urged lawmakers to "do the right thing".
A bitter divide remained in the US before Tuesday’s deadline to raise the country’s debt ceiling, to avoid a crippling default.
Analysts say standoff between Obama and Republicans could spark a global recession.
Efforts to avoid an unprecedented US debt default suffered a new blow on Thursday when fiscally hardline Republicans blocked a budget deficit plan.
Top Republicans and Democrats worked behind the scenes on Wednesday on a compromise to avert a crippling United States default.
The US failed to achieve a budget breakthrough on Sunday and instead worked on rival plans in an impasse that heightened prospects for a debt fault.
Western governments lined up to condemn Friday’s twin attacks in Norway, saying the "cowardly" perpetrators demonstrated a lack of humanity.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday supported a bipartisan proposal for a new deficit-reduction plan aimed at averting a debt default.
Deficit reduction talks between President Barack Obama and Republican leaders ran into trouble on Sunday at a meeting marked by testy exchanges.
Barack Obama replied to a barrage of questions about the economy from Twitter users in the social media-savvy president’s first "Twitter Town Hall".