Space shuttle Discovery rocketed into orbit early on Saturday, carrying lab equipment, supplies, spare parts and genetically altered mice.
The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff’s firm will ask a court to decide how much the imprisoned swindler’s victims should recover.
Chris McGreal follows in the path of the Joads, John Steinbeck’s fictional family in the Grapes of Wrath who fled Oklahoma for California.
Ted Kennedy left his imprint on more legislation than any other senator. His death marks the end of an
era in United Statespolitics.
With Americans mourning Edward Kennedy, the liberal lion’s family on Thursday prepared to accompany his body on its final journey.
Senator Edward Kennedy, who died on Tuesday aged 77, was the liberal lion of US politics.
United States Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party, has died at age 77, his family said on Wednesday.
Like many terror groups, al-Shabab uses Internet videos to draw disenfranchised young men into its fold.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded Federal Reserve chairperson Ben Bernanke a second term.
There is no evidence of a link between weight loss drug Xenical and liver injury, drugmaker Roche said on Tuesday.
Details are emerging about how terrorists in Somalia have lured young American men back to their homeland to join their jihad.
”Lethal levels” of the powerful anaesthetic propofol killed Michael Jackson, according to court documents unsealed on Monday.
President Barack Obama and his family began a weeklong holiday on Martha’s Vineyard with a message to reporters: Chill out and don’t expect much.
The US Justice Department has recommended reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, which could expose CIA employees to prosecution.
Annie Leibovitz is as famous as the people she photographs but now the genius behind the lens is close to financial ruin.
Barack Obama said on Thursday that Libya should put cancer-stricken Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi under house arrest.
Indignant letters can still get results for unhappy airline travellers, but more people are turning to Twitter to vent their frustrations.
Barack Obama, looking to kickstart the stalled Middle East peace process, will hold talks on Tuesday with Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
District 9, a gritty, low-budget space alien movie set in South Africa with a cast of unknowns, has opened as Hollywood’s number one film.
As the storm over Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms rages, a surge in rightwing extremism is being fanned by opponents.
Space experts tell US President Barack Obama that Nasa will have to scrap lunar and Mars missions without a big increase in budget.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Liberia on Thursday, anxious to show support for Africa’s only woman president.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has dedicated his United States Presidential Medal of Freedom to all South Africans who fought for freedom and justice.
Fish stocks around the world are still collapsing but there are encouraging signs of change.
Traders catch scent of recovery on global manufacturing figures
Investigators in the Michael Jackson case continue to sharpen their focus on the personal physician who was with him when he died.
Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics and younger sister of former president John F Kennedy, has died at the age of 88.
Cuba’s President, Raul Castro, has offered to talk to the United States and ease half a century of enmity.
The Obama administration is close to appointing a special criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged abuses by the CIA of prisoners.
Nine people, including five Italian tourists, were killed on Saturday when a small plane clipped a helicopter over New York.;
The United States government is hoping Hillary Clinton’s visit will pave the way to US military bases on African soil.