Google has launched a new music service — for the US only — and added movie rentals to its Android Market for devices running its mobile software.
The worst floods to hit the central United States in more than 70 years have swallowed up homes, farms and roads after the Mississippi River swelled.
YouTube is doubling the size of its online video store in an expansion that will make more movies available for internet streaming.
An Orthodox Jewish newspaper has apologised for deleting Hillary Rodham Clinton from a photo of Obama and his staff monitoring the raid on Bin Laden.
The US has promised it was not seeking to halt China’s rise, but nevertheless said human rights and economic reforms would serve Beijing’s interests.
Clothing firms are marketing sexy garments for pre-teen girls, reinforcing a destructive stereotype of female attractiveness, new research shows.
Chinese computer colossus Lenovo is infusing its leading business laptops with more fun features as internet age lifestyles mesh work with play.
The US’s joy, as much of relief as of delight, is understandable. But the thesis must now be put to the test.
The <i>Wall Street Journal</i> is facing a backlash from web security and privacy experts over its WikiLeaks-inspired whistleblowers’ site, SafeHouse.
Obama lost no time in making political capital from Bin Laden’s death scheduling a high-profile appearance at New York’s Ground Zero.
It is hard to be sympathetic to Osama bin Laden, despite his pitiless assassination at the hands of United States special forces.
US President Barack Obama laid a wreath at Ground Zero in New York, in a bid to bring closure to 9/11 victims’ families after the death of Bin Laden.
Pakistan’s military has demanded the US reduce its troops in the country to a "minimum" as fallout from the killing of Osama bin Laden intensifies.
Three weeks after the 50th anniversary of the Russian who became the first man to travel in space, the US is honouring the man who followed him.
The White House has revised its version of what happened during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s home in several significant ways.
Obama told CBS’s <em>60 minutes</em> that he was "absolutely certain" Bin Laden was dead but that the US did not need to "spike the football".
Footage has emerged of Michelle Obama throwing shapes in front of hundreds of high-school students to the strains of Beyoncé’s <i>Move Your Body</i>.
US President Barack Obama has decided not to release a "gruesome" photograph of Osama bin Laden’s body, lest it be used as a propaganda tool.
Is the ANC conflicted about the killing of Osama bin Laden by the US, or is it playing it safe on an issue that has little significance for SA?
United States voters are showing little enthusiasm for any of the Republican presidential candidates — especially Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.
Texas on Tuesday put to death a man convicted of a 2001 rape and murder by using a sedative that has often served to euthanise animals.
What the picture of United States President Barack Obama and his national security team tells us.
Obama administration’s insistence that DNA tests prove body is "virtually 100% match" fails to silence calls for graphic evidence.
Mistrust between Pakistan and the United States deepened on Tuesday as the US admitted Pakistan was not told about the Osama bin Laden raid.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced on Tuesday Bing search engine and maps would be the default service on BlackBerry devices.
Pakistan’s president said on Tuesday accusations that his nation extends a safe haven to extremists were "baseless".
The Congress of South Africa Trade Unions was "extremely concerned" on Tuesday about the manner in which al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed.
Osama bin Laden’s killing by US commandos in the shadow of Pakistan’s version of West Point has dealt a blow to Pakistan’s top intelligence agency.
The United States did not notify Pakistani allies about its operation against Osama bin Laden, a senior US administration official said on Monday.
The killing of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a covert US operation is a "victory for justice" that will bring "great relief" to the world.
The United States has killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, US President Barack Obama said in a dramatic televised address on Sunday.
The US government ramped up efforts on Saturday to help thousands of homeless victims of the country’s second deadliest recorded tornado outbreak.