United States President Barack Obama, marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Sunday, praised the city’s resilience.
Socialite, celebrity TV and website favourite Paris Hilton has been released by Las Vegas police after her arrest for possessing cocaine on Friday.
Despite an impressive record by the president, discontented American voters are turning against the Democrats.
US combat troop withdrawal from Iraq is billed ‘mission accomplished’ but we’ve heard it before.
The announcement came amid growing concern that the withdrawal will bring a further deterioration in Iraq’s security.
US attitudes and beliefs should make the media despair.
As deflation and depression loom, the United States could be at a historical turning point.
Financial services reform in the US includes a ban on punitive charges for credit card infractions.
From performance to aesthetics, the Alienware M15X ticks all the right boxes to prove that it’s not your average notebook.
Facebook Places, which has launched in the US, sparks fresh privacy concerns.
From Arizona to Ground Zero via birthers, the Republicans are riding a wave of white resentment. It’s reckless and frightening.
Roger Federer returned to winning ways on Sunday by claiming the Cincinnati Masters and announced himself as the man to beat at the US Open.
<i>Golden Girls</i> actress Betty White won the fifth Emmy of her career on Saturday for hosting an episode of <i>Saturday Night Live</i>.
Scientists have mapped a 35km plume of oil droplets from BP’s rogue well in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.
The last US combat brigade pulled out of Iraq and crossed into Kuwait, almost seven-and-a-half years after the US-led invasion, media have reported.
A device aimed at measuring the body’s immune
response to HIV on site could ‘revolutionise’ Aids care in poor, under-resourced areas.
One sector of apartheid life, has, to date, escaped any process of truth and reconciliation — the international corporation.
Germany’s Martin Kaymer won his maiden Major title in a gripping two-way playoff with American Bubba Watson for the 92nd PGA Championship on Sunday.
American Nick Watney broke free of the chasing pack to open up a three-stroke lead after the third round of the US PGA Championship on Saturday.
President Barack Obama on Saturday reassured Americans that the government will stand by coastal residents as a massive clean-up forges ahead.
BP will proceed with a relief well to kill its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, the top US spill official said on Friday.
Rupert Murdoch is planning to test his belief in the transformative power of the iPad to bring news to the younger generation.
A judge has banned the planting of genetically modified sugar beets engineered by Monsanto in a ruling that marks a setback for the biotech giant.
Central banks warn that pace of economic recovery is likely to be slow and ‘choppy’.
The militant Islamic group is enticing disaffected US-allied Iraqis to defect by offering them more attractive salaries.
American Bubba Watson and Italian Francesco Molinari took control at the US PGA Championship in a fog-disrupted first round on Thursday.
Louis Oosthuizen is out to prove at this week’s US PGA Championship that his maiden Major win at the Open Championship last month was no fluke.
The rich fishing grounds of the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to reopen more than three months after crude began gushing from the sea floor.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned on Friday after an probe found that he had falsified expense reports to conceal a "personal relationship".
WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file, sparking speculation that those behind the organisation may be prepared to release more information.
US prosecutors stepped up their criminal probe of cyclist Lance Armstrong on allegations of doping, the <i>New York Times</i> reported on Thursday.
An end to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster was in sight on Wednesday as BP plugged its runaway well.