Barack Obama opened a crack on Monday in the embargo against communist Cuba, allowing US telecommunications firms to start providing service.
In a move to ensure that all of Bernard Madoff’s personal wealth is used to pay his defrauded customers, some investors filed court papers on Monday.
Pity the world’s rich: as the credit crunch bites, they too are heading to the pawnbroker’s — albeit with a Renoir or Van Gogh under their arm.
After spending a year of his life competing at the Masters, golf legend Gary Player made an emotional farewell to the event on Friday.
Rescue workers dug through the rubble left by tornados and firefighters battled wildfires on Saturday after a storm system cut a swath through the US.
The Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Games is strong and impressive, the chair of the International Olympic Committee’s evaluation commission said.
Barack Obama set out his vision for a world free of nuclear weapons on Sunday, vowing to involve all states with atomic weapons in the process.
The Guantánamo military prison guards call it a ”cocktail,” the mix of faeces, urine and spit that inmates hurl at them.
For optometrist Howard Levy, nothing eases the tension of eye exams and paperwork like strapping on a guitar and jamming with fellow professionals.
Barack Obama was meant to sweep into town looking unassailable. Instead he arrives beleaguered, with an awful lot to prove.
The US offered Taliban fighters who renounce violence in Afghanistan an ”honourable form of reconciliation” on Tuesday.
Ricky Hatton thinks Manny Pacquiao’s big win over Oscar De La Hoya in December was a fluke. Hatton is counting on beating the Filipino star on May 2.
United States Catholic bishops believe alternative therapy ”lacks scientific credibility” and may cause ”insurmountable problems”.
The Obama administration seized the wheel of the failing United States car industry on Monday, forcing out General Motors’s CEO.
Motivated by unhappy TV executives and confused fans, international gymnastics officials are looking at reworking the revamped scoring system.
Without the glam of Hollywood endorsement, Kiva has been quietly connecting ordinary concerned citizens to aspirant entrepreneurs in the Third World.
The US president plans to send thousands of troops to train Afghan forces as part of a strategy that will focus efforts on destroying al-Qaeda havens.
Rising waters in North Dakota on Friday forced hundreds to head for higher ground as the state braced for its worst floods in recorded history.
Micro-blogging sensation Twitter plans to begin dabbling this year with ways to pump cash from the fast-growing free service.
Barack Obama is trying to dampen a fire he once stoked, urging a more tempered response to public furore over bonuses paid to executives of AIG.
If you don’t know a stone toter from Adam’s off ox the Dictionary of American Regional English is for you.
Another way to think about the prospects of recovery is last week’s US wealth data. Americans lost a collective $12.7-trillion last year.
Visiting shuttle Discovery astronauts on Friday unfurled the new solar panel wings they installed onto the International Space Station.
For Barack Obama, it was a horrible way to end the week, but perhaps that was only fitting: it had been a horrible week.
A United States appeals court on Friday denied bail to Wall Street fraud convict Bernard Madoff, as prosecutors highlighted public outrage.
United States President Barack Obama on Friday launched a historic direct appeal to the Iranian people, urging an end to decades of animosity.
The former and much missed (by comedians) president of the United States, George Bush, is to receive a rumoured $7-m advance for his autobiography.
Barack Obama is deploying every weapon in the presidential armoury to bolster his economic rescue strategy.
James Purdy, who has died aged 94, wrote outlandish, idiosyncratic novels that did not sell in large quantities but survive, sometimes in print.
Edward M Liddy, chairperson and CEO of AIG, has become the reluctant defender of princely employee bonuses that Congress finds indefensible.
Ron Barnard is throwing in the towel. Like a number of homeowners who owe more on mortgages than their homes are worth, he’s ready to walk away.
Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic stayed on course for a semifinal showdown with third-round triumphs in the Indian Wells Masters series on Tuesday.