Security checks, random searches, new airline ticket fees and other hassles since the September 11 attacks have kept many people off planes and on the road, particularly for short trips.
A marauding invader, with a voracious appetite and seemingly supernatural powers, aroused fears from the moment its presence in the United States first became the subject of news headlines and local television broadcasts.
Former US president Jimmy Carter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is a soft-spoken, onetime Washington outsider who not only made it into the White House but carried on afterwards to earn broad praise as a global mediator and humanitarian.
A team of US scientists revealed on Sunday that they have successfully implanted tissue obtained through therapeutic cloning into cows.
During the Cold War, the United States ran a much broader aerial intelligence operation than previously acknowledged, sending spy planes into China, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, newly declassified documents show.
Chandra Levy was murdered, but there’s too little evidence to say how the former government intern died or who might have left her body on a rugged park hillside.
The United States has made an attempt to develop mood-altering weapons similar to the gas used in a recent hostage crisis in Moscow but abandoned the program because it was difficult to reconcile with international law.
Allied planes bombed radar and missile sites in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq on Thursday, targeting President Saddam Hussein’s air defences for the third time this week.
THE United States and Russia have set up a joint task force to prevent terrorists from acquiring radioactive substances for use in building weapons of mass destruction, US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said.
Sudanese authorities have arrested a suspected al-Qaeda leader whom US officials say fired a surface-to-air missile at a US aircraft at an American airbase in Saudi Arabia.
The administration of President George Bush on Monday reacted icily to gestures made by Cuban leader Fidel Castro to former US president Jimmy Carter.
In an unusually personal and public rebuke, the International Monetary Fund’s top economist on Tuesday accused Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz of slander, self-aggrandisement and intellectual vanity.
Corporate governance and accounting reform in America will be on the front burner on Tuesday, as the Securities and Exchange Commission start cleaning up big business.
Environmental groups and biotech companies are accusing each other of exploiting starvation in much of southern Africa for political gain as countries in the region try to determine whether it is safe to use genetically engineered crops to relieve famine.
President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney call Saddam Hussein the ”enemy.” Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compares him to Adolf Hitler.
The US Justice Department sharply eased restrictions on domestic spying on Thursday, handing the FBI broad, new authority to monitor Internet sites, libraries and churches.
A study that found adult blood stem cells were unable to transform themselves into other types of tissue raises new doubts about whether they could be used to reinvigorate ailing organs.
Iraq’s people and its military will quickly desert President Saddam Hussein in the event of a US blitzkrieg against his regime, a key exiled opposition leader claimed on Thursday, ahead of talks with senior US officials.
The militant Islamic group Hezbollah has amassed thousands of surface-to-surface missiles in southern Lebanon, including weapons missiles with sufficient range to strike cities in northern Israel.
The United States on Tuesday signaled it was still interested in talking to a former US soldier believed to have defected to North Korea in 1952, hoping he can help trace Americans still missing from the Korean war.
US authorities announced on Tuesday that they have a suspect in a series of pipe bombs planted in mailboxes in five US states.
Microsoft’s flagship word processor has a security flaw that could allow the theft of computer files by ”bugging” a document with a hidden code, the company disclosed on Thursday.
Researchers studying people who are resistant to HIV have found a group of natural proteins that seem to inhibit the progressive infection of the virus that causes Aids, a finding that could lead to new therapies.
President George Bush will offer resumed direct mail services and new aid programmes to Cuba, but will maintain the US embargo until the Communist-ruled island returns to democracy.
US researchers say they have found protein markers in a blood test that can be used to eliminate unneeded biopsies by sharpening the diagnosis of prostate cancer, the second deadliest form of cancer among American men.
A medication tested on mice has proven effective in treating cancerous tumours by attacking the blood vessels that feed them.
A dozen US and British warplanes bombed a ”critical command and control node” in western Iraq in a raid that was larger than usual but not out of the ordinary, the Pentagon said on Friday.
Four prisoners held by the US military at a naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of an anti-terrorism probe have tried to commit suicide
The US Congress early on Friday gave President George Bush authority to go to war against Iraq, citing a ”continuing threat” posed by Baghdad’s alleged weapons buildup.
Detectives sifted through dirt and leaves as they looked for blood, fibres, hair or any other evidence to assist their investigation into the death of Chandra Levy.
The US Roman Catholic Church has removed 218 priests from their positions this year because of allegations of child sexual abuse, although at least 34 known offenders remain in church jobs.
The dark salty sauce that adds a kick to stir-fry or a tang to grilled salmon is a new source of conflict between Japan and the United States.