The US government shuts down nonessential services and Jacob Zuma is named as ‘Number One’ in Guptagate saga.
As Nina Davuluri took the title of Miss America, Haji Mohamed Dawjee looks at the harsh reception the first Indian-American winner received.
In reaching a deal on Syria after what a US official described as three days of "hard-fought" debate, Moscow and Washington can each count benefits.
On day three of talks between the United States and Russia, the two agree to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons by mid 2014.
The US will invest about $7-billion of state funds to double access to electricity for people in sub-Saharan Africa, says US President Barack Obama.
Signs of a potentially improved global wheat supply see local prices drop.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden possesses the cunning skills needed to survive the world of espionage. But even America’s most wanted needs an ally.
The US has pressed Russia to do everything in its power to expel Edward Snowden before he gets the chance to take an expected flight to Cuba.
US President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to South Africa has been condemned by some trade unions, political parties and civil society bodies.
Corporations have shredded the rulebook, turning the land of the free into a free for fall.
Russia and Turkey have joined SA in expressing outrage over revelations that the UK and the US spied on foreign delegates at G20 meetings in 2009.
The top US intelligence official launched an aggressive defence on Saturday of a secret government data collection program.
From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the powerhouse appears to be intent on winning the race to disaster.
A group of ‘Americans forced into exile in South Africa’ pen a letter to the Unites States President.
The United States says it will soon send a missile defence system to Guam to defend it from "a real and clear danger" from North Korea.
As the US prepares to ship most of its weapons home after more than a decade in Afghanistan, the bill for the move will be a staggering $6-billion.
A blizzard hammered the north-eastern United States on Saturday, shutting down travel and leaving at least nine people dead.
A legal review has concluded that the US president can order pre-emptive cyberstrikes if the country finds evidence of a digital attack against it.
In tracking down illegal weapons in the United States, the smoking gun may not be a gun at all.
US use of drones has soared during Obama’s time in office, with the White House authorising attacks in at least four countries.
Fans of cliff-top dramas should settle back and prepare for another episode as the March deadline approaches.
US stocks are poised to begin the year with gains after the late passage of a Bill to avoid harsh tax hikes and crimped economic growth.
Barack Obama is due to host congressional leaders including his Republican rivals in a last-ditch bid to halt America’s slide over the fiscal cliff.
US home prices rose in most cities in October compared with a year ago, pushed up by rising sales and a decline in the supply of available homes.
In Afghanistan, where US troops are fighting in America’s longest conflict, the re-election of President Barack Obama was met with a war-weary shrug.
A change in leadership in the United States and China – the world’s two biggest economies – will see a transformation in fiscal and monetary policies.
Fuel supplies headed toward disaster zones in the US north-east on Saturday and a million customers regained electricity.
South Africans may complain often and loudly, but that is far better than Americans’ paralysis, writes Sisonke Msimang.
Attacks on US diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya, sparked by a film that accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad, have left one person dead.
Three US Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan, in a deadly 24 hours for Nato-led forces.
SA’s relationship with the US is nothing if not complicated and the ambivalence was on display as Hillary Clinton danced her way around the country.
An agricultural firm in the US will not say why it pulled out of plans to fund a film on an apartheid-busting social rugby club of the 1980s.