In its bleakest forecast in years, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday the world economy was set for a major downturn.
Norbert has become a major hurricane with winds near 185km/h, as it churns towards Mexico’s tourist destination of Baja.
Susan Coyne had her heart set on a pair of earrings at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, a purchase she would not have thought twice about.
Days after it got a federal bailout, American International Group spent 000 on a posh California retreat for its executives.
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama battled over the best way to help struggling US workers on Tuesday in a sometimes tense debate.
The US presidential debate slipped deeper into the mud on Monday as the Democrats joined the Republicans in dredging up damaging events.
Republicans are urging John McCain to adopt more aggressive tactics against Barack Obama amid fears that the White House is slipping away from them.
On the eve of the second presidential debate, Democrat Barack Obama on Monday challenged Republican John McCain’s integrity.
Margaret Ringenberg died in her sleep, aged 87, after a day at the Experimental Aircraft Association fly-in at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
The Bush administration has given a US thinktank the go-ahead to open an office in Iran, in a departure from its policy of isolating the regime.
Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday by saying John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the United States economy.
Democrat campaign targets the swing state of New Mexico. Dan Glaister reports
It was a scene that many Americans had been waiting exactly 13 years to see. OJ Simpson was found guilty and could spend the rest of life in prison.
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday of ”palling around with terrorists”.
Washington has seen a ‘throw the bums out’ mood before. But this is something else.
President George Bush said on Saturday that benefits from the recently passed financial bailout would take time to show up in the US economy.
OJ Simpson, who was cleared of murder in the 1990s, was convicted on all charges in his Las Vegas kidnapping and robbery trial on Friday.
Never before perhaps has such a tiny gesture assumed such electoral importance as Sarah Palin’s wink.
The jury in OJ Simpson’s kidnap and robbery trial reached verdicts in the case on Friday night against the former football star.
The US House of Representatives set aside doubts that prevailed a few days ago and passed a landmark -billion Wall Street bailout bill on Friday.
Emergency rescue plan to go back to the House of Representatives.
The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa.
The US on Friday haggled over a revised version of a $700-billion Wall Street bailout, with leading Democrats optimistic the package would be passed.
Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden clashed on the economy and Iraq during a lively but polite debate on Thursday.
The US military’s new Africa command went into action on Wednesday, but hostility has forced it to shelve plans to be based on the continent.
US voters braced for the most-anticipated vice-presidential debate in history on Thursday amid speculation that Republican Sarah Palin could stumble.
A hiker in California has found two aviation identification cards belonging to millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, police said on Wednesday.
The US Senate has approved a -billion bailout of the financial industry, putting pressure on the House of Representatives to approve the plan.
The US Senate prepared to vote on Wednesday on a revised -billion plan aimed at halting the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Five years after an actress was found shot dead in his Los Angeles mansion, legendary music producer Phil Spector’s murder retrial begins on Thursday.
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The US Senate will vote on Wednesday night on a new version of the -billion bailout package for Wall Street