President Obama has commited the US to promoting reform in the Arab world, but his "Arab Spring" speech had stern words for Israelis and Palestinians.
The US has promised it was not seeking to halt China’s rise, but nevertheless said human rights and economic reforms would serve Beijing’s interests.
US President Barack Obama threatened to veto a short-term spending Bill put forward by Republicans to avoid a government shutdown on Friday.
The United States said on Monday it will recognise South Sudan as the world’s newest nation as it moved to taking the north off a terrorism blacklist.
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/ 7 February 2011
AOL has agreed to purchase the <em>Huffington Post</em> for $315-million, the United States internet company announced on Monday.
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/ 3 February 2011
Injured South African photographer Joao Silva will try on his first pair of prosthetic legs in Washington on Monday, his friend Greg Marinovich said.
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/ 19 December 2010
In a historic vote for gay rights, the Senate agreed to do away with the military’s 17-year ban on openly gay troops.
US President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday despite China’s warning that the meeting could damage strained ties.
North Korea shot back on Thursday at US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who recently likened the isolated regime to a child demanding attention.
Barack Obama on Wednesday will order a crackdown on waste and cost overruns in government procurement that could save up to -billion a year.
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/ 21 January 2009
In the end, the inaugural balls went off a little more smoothly than the oath of office as Barack Obama avoided stepping on his wife’s toes.
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/ 21 January 2009
Barack Obama took power as the first black United States president on Tuesday and quickly turned the page on the Bush years.
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/ 19 January 2009
On the eve of his historic inauguration, Barack Obama joined on Monday in honouring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
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/ 19 January 2009
Barack Obama said on Monday his inauguration as the US president would extend the work of ”renewing the promise of this nation”.
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/ 16 January 2009
Bank of America was rescued by the US government on Friday through a -billion bailout.
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/ 14 January 2009
One of Barack Obama’s first acts as the new US president could be to order the closure of the controversial ”war on terror” detention camp.
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/ 14 January 2009
In less than a week’s time Malia and Sasha Obama will move into one of the world’s most coveted residences, thrust back into the global spotlight.
Barack Obama’s economic team is working on an overhaul of the -billion programme, with the aim of doing more to spur the flow of credit to the US.
Thousands of people were evacuated on Wednesday across Washington as flooding caused by heavy rain and melting snow threatened to deluge the region.
Israel has yet to learn the US lesson, that the war on terror was a failure
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/ 21 November 2008
US President George W Bush may be a lame duck, but protesters and aspiring US rivals are still dogging him with a passion on his last foreign trip.
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/ 11 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama visited the White House on Monday for his first post-election meeting with President George Bush.
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/ 10 October 2008
Global finance chiefs gathered in Washington for crisis talks on Friday as panic spread in global financial markets.
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/ 11 September 2008
A memorial opens next to the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on the seventh anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Tony Snow, who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President George Bush’s press secretary, has died.
United States President George Bush said on Tuesday the United States was looking at imposing more sanctions against Zimbabwe’s government.
Jesse Helms, an iconic United States conservative lawmaker known for hard-line stances on foreign policy and civil liberties, has died.
Jesse Helms, an anti-communist firebrand who championed a wide range of conservative causes in his 30 years in the US Senate, died early on Friday.
Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren’t musical acts in a summer concert series: They’re artists featured on Barack Obama’s
iPod.
Barack Obama faced widespread condemnation on Friday from both right and left for reneging on a promise on election campaign financing.
European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three ”super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star.
Tim Russert, a household name in American political discourse as host of NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday talk show, has died of a heart attack.