New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered a mandatory evacuation from several low-lying areas as Hurricane Irene looms.
Warren Buffett has thrown a lifeline to the Bank of America, nnouncing he would invest $5-billion in the beleaguered United States banking giant.
New Yorkers living in low-lying areas should think about moving out on Friday before Hurricane Irene hits the city of 8.4-million people.
Asian stock markets were unsteady as investors waited to see whetherBen Bernanke would promise new steps to help the US economy ward off a double-dip.
Hurricane Irene battered the Bahamas on Wednesday on a track to the North Carolina coast that forecasters say could threaten the US north-east.
Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple on Wednesday and passed the reins to his right-hand man Tim Cook.
More than 30 countries have recognised Libya’s rebel council, but SA has so far refused to accept its legitimacy, and criticised Nigeria for doing so.
A strong earthquake rattled the US East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation’s capital.
Hurricane Irene strengthened into a Category Two hurricane as it swept north of the Dominican Republic on Monday.
Joe Biden warned the world not to underestimate Japan and the US, saying the two countries are still Pacific powers and will overcome their problems.
The global conflicts that have raged since 9/11 have seen no clear winners but many losers — at least 250 000 people have been killed.
"I think you’d better wake up," said a voice in my left ear. "The World Trade Centre’s on fire." It was very decent of my partner to stir me.
Tuareg rockers Tinariwen have been exporting their acclaimed brand of desert rock to a worldwide audience for a decade.
Abercrombie & Fitch offered to pay a character in reality show <i>Jersey Shore</i> to stop wearing its clothes, fearing its image is being tarnished.
Four big cigarette makers have sued the US Food and Drug Administration, seeking to void as unconstitutional new graphic labels.
A man wanted in Australia for allegedly strapping a fake bomb to the neck of a teenage girl, has been arrested in the United States.
South Korea and the US have launched a massive joint military exercise, drawing condemnation from the North, which warned of "all-out war".
Campaigners say plants being grown in US may worsen global food crisis, while farmers express cross-contamination fears.
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.
Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll on Saturday in the first big test of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign.
The US called on countries to stop buying Syrian oil and gas to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
A US court on Friday dealt a new blow to the health care reform law, declaring its centrepiece provision unconstitutional.
The notorious agriculture company is walking a tightrope over evolution’s fiery maw with its practice of monoculture.
Architect Michael Arad first imagined the reflecting pools with waterfalls — he calls them voids — as two empty spaces in the Hudson River.
It was Kenneth Thompson’s role in the prosecution of police accused of beating and sodomizing a Haitian immigrant that put the lawyer on the map.
Filmmakers producing a film about the US special forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden are getting help from the Pentagon.
US stocks tumbled more than 4% as rumours about the health of French banks sparked concern that the eurozone’s debt crisis could claim new victims.
Gloomy comments from the reserve bank were the backdrop to a fall in bond yields and a volatile day for the rand, which ended down against the dollar.
Scientists have for the first time used gene therapy to destroy advanced tumours in cancer patients — a goal that has taken 20 years to achieve.
A civil society group has criticised the United States for trying to be the "policeman of the world" and interfering in the affairs of other nations.
A polygamous sect leader whose followers believe he is a prophet who speaks directly with God is likely to continue to lead his church from jail.
The leader of a polygamist sect in Texas has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting two young girls.