US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, a senior official said on Friday.
Hillary Clinton delivered a ringing call for Democratic Party unity on Tuesday, promising to work for Barack Obama.
United States Democrats on Monday worked to unite the party for its convention to nominate presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency unveiled details of the voluntary pilot programme it hopes will improve the accuracy of doping tests. The programme will profile the body…
The head of African miner Randgold Resources on Tuesday said net profit in its third and fourth quarters should be in line with the first-quarter level, citing higher bullion…
Mother Teresa’s hidden faith struggle, laid bare in a new book that shows she felt alone and separated from God, is forcing a re-examination of one of the world’s best-known…
A former amateur mountain bike racer from Boulder, Colorado, has accused Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen of trying to trick him into carrying illicit doping materials…
A top leader of the powerful United States evangelical movement and outspoken opponent of gay marriage with close White House links has stepped down from his positions following…
A gunman who held two girls hostage and shot one of them at a Colorado high school on Wednesday was killed by police who stormed the classroom building where he was barricaded,…
Justin Gatlin said on Friday he has ”no idea how any banned substance got into my body,” and restated his plan to appeal the eight-year ban from track he received earlier this…
It sounds like a great idea: Let’s just blast hurricanes like Rita and Katrina out of the sky before they hurt more people. Or, at least weaken the storms and steer them away…
South Africa’s Retief Goosen scored 32 points to capture his first PGA Tour title this year by winning the International. After rain postponed Thursday’s first round, 63 players…
The religious groups that had pleaded with government officials to keep a severely brain-damaged woman alive in Florida are now vowing to push for stricter legal standards when…
Hunter S Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularised a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself on…
More than 130 years after Alfred Packer ate his five companions to survive a Colorado winter, a museum curator is making a case that the notorious cannibal was innocent of…
As Clela Rorex sits back and watches the national debate unfold over same-sex marriage, she smiles. She’s seen it all before. After all, the former Boulder County clerk and…
A geomagnetic storm spawned by a giant eruption of gas on the sun has reached the Earth’s upper atmosphere, interfering with high-frequency airline communications but causing no…
Coal seam fires that can burn underground for centuries pose a major threat to the environment and human health, experts say. Once under way they can be impossible to put out,…
ARMGold, a South African gold miner that went public in Johannesburg in May, intends to float an offering of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) early next year, Executive…
With little ceremony, firefighters stopped the spread of the largest wildfire in Colorado’s history that at one point crept within a few kilometres of the city’s southern suburbs.
