The Bush administration was recently forced to apologise to Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi after a compromising White House press statement about him.
Intel rolled out a new batch of chips for laptops on Monday that promises longer battery life and better graphics-rendering abilities.
Restoring financial market stability is a top priority for the United States Federal Reserve, Fed chairperson Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to Viacom.
Shares in Asian and European banks tumbled on Tuesday as investors dumped stocks on concerns about exposure to troubled US mortgage lenders.
So George Bush walked into a bar in Shreveport, Louisiana, with Colin Powell. It was Saturday morning and the two had spent a hard day on the job.
Barack Obama on Monday pledged to increase United States troops in Afghanistan by a third if he becomes president, sending 10 000 reinforcements.
It was an image meant to raise hackles: a cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker showing Barack and Michelle Obama — dressed as a militant.
Oil prices hovered near a barrel on Monday, swinging between gains and losses as traders weighed global supply concerns and a stronger dollar.
Barack Obama’s campaign decried on Monday a satirical cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker magazine.
A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission has submitted a petition to officials in a bid to have their proposal placed on the ballot.
A government plan to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped calm markets on Monday but did little to allay fears about the health of the system.
White House’s hostile rhetoric fails to stem flow of exports to regime under sanctions, writes Ewen MacAskill .
Speculation is running wild that either, or even both, US presidential candidates will pick a woman as running mate.
Oscar-winner Michael Caine joins the ranks of movie legends who have sunk their hands and feet in concrete outside Los Angeles’s Chinese Theatre.
The United States Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is attracting millions more dollars in funding than expected.
United States worries grew on Friday night when federal officials took over California mortgage lender IndyMac after a run on the bank by depositors.
Firefighters battling a raging wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California caught a break early on Friday.
The United States government is considering taking over top US mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and placing them into conservatorship.
The image is indelible: Jesse Jackson, once the most influential African-American leader in the US, angrily muttering about Barack Obama.
A 14 500-year-old woolly-mammoth skeleton, almost intact and dug up in 1994, has been unveiled at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
Naturalists are fearing for endangered California condors caught up in a massive two-week-old blaze still sweeping through the scenic Big Sur area.
Leonid Hurwicz, the oldest Nobel Prize recipient who shared the award in economics last year, has died at age 90.
Jesse Helms, an iconic United States conservative lawmaker known for hard-line stances on foreign policy and civil liberties, has died.
Google on Tuesday rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant <i>Second Life</i> with software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds.
One of America’s top universities is making a difference with online courses that — it hopes — will transform global education.
Are you a wing nut pretexting as a netroots advocate on webinars and thought you could blend in anonymously? Well, your cover was blown on Monday.
A new exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago is designed to challenge United States immigration policies.
SABMiller says it has concluded an agreement with Anheuser-Busch to transfer the US importation rights for the Grolsch brand to its US joint venture.
Barack Obama will stand before 75 000 fans to accept the Democratic White House nomination in a spectacular finale to his party’s convention.
Microsoft on Monday said it would be willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo! — but only if a new Yahoo! board is elected.
Jack White has penned a poem expressing his feelings for Detroit to clear up misconceptions about how the White Stripes singer feels about the city.