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.
Sikhs in Wisconsin in the US have been routinely abused and taunted before the temple shooting. Chris McGreal reports.
Fears are growing that foreign funding of Syria’s rebels could lead to conflict in Turkey, Lebanon and beyond.
Mitt Romney embodies a system dominated by financial engineering that uses companies as casino chips.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding reception in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 40 others.
Embarrassingly, Washington’s infection rate tops that of some African countries, writes Sarah Boseley.
Obama’s decision meets a pledge he made on a visit to Afghanistan to upgrade Kabul to a security status given to only a limited number of US partners.
Russia’s desire to keep its last remaining ally in the Middle East collided head-long with the United States’ desire to remove President Bashar Assad.
Vendors of Apple products in Iran scoffed at media reports that the consumer technology giant was banning US sales to customers of Iranian background.
The US embassy in Kenya has warned of an imminent threat of an attack on the Kenyan city of Mombasa and asked its workers to leave the coastal town.
Last week’s market carnage in the US and Europe spread to Asia this morning. Now the ball is in the central banks’ court, writes Matt Quigley.
More than half the babies under the age of one are now likely to be Hispanic, black or Asian, writes Ed Pilkington.
It is easy to define the raison d’tre of the US or Israel, but South Africa’s mission seems murkier, writes Rapule Tabane
Hoping to shake off a slump in popularity, Obama has begun his official re-election rallies, six months before the US national elections.
The new skyscraper at Ground Zero has now reached a significant 6m above the Empire State building.
Two Arkansas women are fighting over the ownership of a winning lottery ticket that yielded $1-million to the woman who picked it out of a bin.
China is demanding an apology from the US over the standoff involving activist Chen Guangcheng, who has now left the US embassy in Beijing.
This week will bring key data on US jobs and manufacturing figures from around the world. With few exceptions, economists are not optimistic.
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is now under US protection in Beijing after fleeing from house arrest, a US-based rights group said on Saturday.
Nearly a year after a US raid killed Osama bin Laden, his core al-Qaeda network in Pakistan is "essentially gone" say US intelligence officials.
Bill Clinton has appeared in an election campaign video in which he hails Barack Obama for ordering the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
A Soyuz capsule with two Russians and an American on board has touched down safely in mild weather on the sweeping steppes of central Kazakhstan.
United States’ citizens acting at the behest of their country have shown an alarming pattern of despicable behaviour, including torture.