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.
Brazil’s rapid expansion has not been underpinned by sound legal systems, as logic has dictated. But they have managed to break out of poverty.
The United States’s Republicans are pitting women against one another in an attempt to distract from the real issues.
<em>The New York Times</em> has revealed that Wal-Mart covered up findings of an internal probe that proved its Mexican subsidiary bribed officials.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has urged Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime to protect the 300 ceasefire monitors due in Syria next week.
Singer Jennifer Hudson is one of 300 potential witnesses in the trial of her then brother-in-law, which started on Monday.
Amid weaker than expected data in the US and China, and a flare-up in Europe’s debt crisis, markets will be paying close attention to key statistics.
Among the US states with medical marijuana, Colorado stands out because it has chosen to develop a comprehensive system to regulate marijuana.
TV show host Dick Clark, whose long-running TV dance show helped rock ‘n roll win acceptance in the mainstream US audience has died at the age of 82.
The space shuttle <em>Discovery</em> has made its final voyage a piggyback jet ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Virginia.
US and Chinese officials have taken part in war games in bid to prevent military blowout resulting from rising anger over cyberattacks.