President Barack Obama is preparing a September jobs package to crank up employment but is hamstrung by budget cuts and a tight debt ceiling.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the IMF, returned to IMF headquarters to say goodbye after US criminal charges against him were dropped.
A relative of President Barack Obama was arrested last week outside Boston on charges of drunk driving, an official said on Monday.
Pop star Lady Gaga picked up two awards and Katy Perry won three but Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement trumped all the award winners.
Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan on Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the north-eastern US
Hurricane Irene closed in on New York on Saturday, shutting down the city, as millions of Americans on the East Coast hunkered down.
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed on the need for "concerted action" to spur global growth.
The Federal Reserve on Friday dashed Wall Street’s hopes of an immediate boost to the flagging Unites States economy.
Rice’s second autobiography will take us "into secret negotiating rooms" where global peace hung in the balance, publishers say.
Hurricane Irene closed in on the US East Coast on Friday, lashing North Carolina with ferocious winds and triggering unprecedented evacuations.
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.