There’s nothing fancy about being a spy – in fact, one intelligence document warns that candidates should not be recruited if their motive is glamour.
SA’s intelligence service relied on a spy close to Russia to find out details about its own government’s involvement in a $100-million satellite deal.
Republican senators have opened the way for a new showdown with United States President Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney has raised Republican hopes of an election comeback with a spirited and aggressive performance in the first televised presidential debate.
Mitt Romney’s battered presidential bid has been hit by a secretly recorded video in which he sets out views on the Israel-Palestine issue.
President Barack Obama is likely to press German Chancellor Angela Merkel to support a growth package to bail out Europe at the G8 summit this weekend
The brutal contest for the Republican nomination hints at deeper divisions among US conservatives.
Mitt Romney’s rivals for the Republican ticket have ripped into the presidential candidate on live TV in a desperate bid to cut his massive poll lead.
Republican presidential hopefuls will go head to head for the first time at Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses in the fight for the GOP ticket to take on Obama.
Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential ticket boosted as the head of rival Michelle Bachmann’s Iowa campaign walks out on her.
Obama lost no time in making political capital from Bin Laden’s death scheduling a high-profile appearance at New York’s Ground Zero.
Republicans will fight the president’s reforms now they have a stronger hold on Congress.
The Republicans plan to hold a congressional inquiry into WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks founder faces growing legal problems around the world. The US announced that it’s investigating whether he violated its espionage laws.
One in seven Americans now live on or below the poverty line, according to figures published recently by the United States Census Bureau.
The United States’ focus is shifting away from Cold War weapons strategy — but Iran and North Korea could still be targeted.
The Obama administration says the US’s financial system runs the risk of collapse, write Andrew Clark and Ewen MacAskill.
Private cars are thought to account for about a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions in America.
John McCain’s election campaign on Friday night suffered the body blow for which Republicans had been bracing themselves.
The UN security council has called on Iran to curb uranium enrichment and reprocessing on the grounds that they could be used to make a bomb.
