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/ 19 January 2010
Iran said on Tuesday that Western warships stationed in the Gulf are "best targets" for the Islamic republic if its nuclear sites are attacked.
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/ 18 January 2010
<em>Avatar</em> was named best film drama and <em>The Hangover</em> claimed the top comedy trophy at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
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/ 16 January 2010
President Barack Obama on Saturday slammed Wall Street’s "audacity" for fighting a bail-out fee he wants to slap on financial firms.
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/ 16 January 2010
Big carmakers at the Detroit Motor Show had electrically powered and hybrid cars on display, but Americans still aren’t buying green vehicles.
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/ 15 January 2010
China said on Friday that Google’s threat to pull out of the country over censorship would not affect Beijing’s economic ties with the US.
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/ 14 January 2010
President Barack Obama will on Thursday unveil a fee on 50 top financial firms to recoup billions of taxpayer dollars used to bail out the industry.
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/ 14 January 2010
Teddy Pendergrass, the seductive American R&B singer, has died at the age of 59, media reports said on Thursday.
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/ 13 January 2010
Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, Iran’s former chief nuclear negotiator, accused United States President Barack Obama of state terrorism on Wednesday.
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/ 12 January 2010
Iran on Tuesday accused the US and Israel and their "mercenaries" of carrying out a bomb attack that killed a nuclear scientist, state media reported.
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/ 12 January 2010
Two gay men and two lesbians challenging a ban on marriage said their relationships had lasted for years but they felt like third-class citizens.
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/ 11 January 2010
He spent a year trying to do things co-operatively. Now he must take more charge and not let Congress call the shots.
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/ 11 January 2010
In a filmmaking career spanning almost 40 years, Oliver Stone has turned political controversy in America into an art form.
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/ 10 January 2010
With the paparazzi on the prowl, the disgraced golf star has vanished. But America still waits for an act of penitence.
His expression flat, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of trying to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day hobbled into a Detroit courtroom on Friday.
In an event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced plans to start beaming 3D gigs directly into living rooms.
Blasts of Arctic winds and drifting snow gripped much of the northern United States and Canada on Thursday and heavy snows fell in Europe.
Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe.
A US government report on Friday is expected to show the economy stopped shedding jobs last month for the first time since it fell into recession.
Microsoft plans to get its Natal body-gesturing gaming system into stores in time for this year’s holiday shopping season.
US President Barack Obama is "not patient" and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top US military officer said on Wednesday.
Manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets expected to hit US shelves in force by the middle of 2010.
The attempted bombing of a US airliner was a potentially disastrous "screw up" by the intelligence community, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday.
Televisions enhanced with direct internet access and 3D displays will be among the most anticipated products unveiled on Thursday.
For the second year in a row, Tiger Woods will be a notable absentee from the early part of the PGA Tour schedule.
Underneath its glitzy casinos, far from the bright marquees, there is another Las Vegas, a pitch-black, dank underworld.
Nasa has celebrated Mars rover <em>Spirit</em>’s bountiful, six-year stint on the red planet, way longer than the three months it was to last.
Air travellers from Nigeria, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and nine other countries will face full-body pat downs.
The ease with which the plane bomber could operate exposes the vacuity and recklessness at the heart of the US response to 9/11
The Detroit bomber reminds us that the war with fundamentalism goes on. But the facts offer room for hope.
Upcoming accounts could offer new insights on issues ranging from Iraq and Guantánamo to Hurricane Katrina.
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/ 31 December 2009
US intelligence chief Admiral Dennis Blair faced tough questions about his future on Wednesday as the Obama administration fended off criticism.
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/ 30 December 2009
Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a US airliner on Christmas Day suggest a religious and lonely man.