The US President, Barack Obama, has said that the country's struggling economy is on its way to recovery, but warned that the job market will be the last thing to return to normal.
 
In an evening press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Obama defended his own prescriptions for ...

A civic group working to cut the spread of cancer in the US has filed a suit against the makers of hot dogs for not using cancer risk warning levels on the products.
 
The NGO, Cancer Project, has initiated the suit in Newark, New Jersey, on the behalf of three people against four of the ...

The US President, Barack Obama, has called for greater reconciliation between Iraq's ethnic groups during a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, at the White House on Wednesday.
 
Coming to agreements on contentious issues is essential to a unified Iraq and its stability in ...

Delegates from the US and Russia have started a new round of talks on Wednesday for reviving START, the nuclear arms reduction treaty which will expire by 2009 end.Diplomats from both countries told DPA that the teams had begun their meetings at the Russian diplomatic mission in Geneva in the late ...

Despite a rejection threat by President Barack Obama, the US Senate has voted to block the expansion of one among America's most controversial and expensive defence programmes – the production of the F-22 fighter jet.
 
The 58-40 vote on Tuesday gave the White House and Pentagon a key ...

The US President Barack Obama said that his administration is building a 21st century education system in America to compete with "China and India and everybody else all around the world".
 
The US has "to ensure that we're educating and preparing our people for the new jobs ...

The US stocks edged up on Tuesday after the Goldman Sachs posted its surprising quarterly earnings and retail earnings since January.
 
Goldman Sachs overwhelmed Wall Street expectations, earning $2.7 billion in the second quarter of the year despite the ongoing economic crisis, its best ...

G8 on Thursday has called for an increased coordination among countries to check the abuse of internet by terrorist organizations for misinformation. 
"Special attention must be paid to the abuses by terrorist organisations of both modern and more traditional means of public ...

The US President Barack Obama started his first meeting with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday morning at the Russian prime minister's country residence present outside Moscow.
Obama, on his first visit to Russia after becoming president, held extensive talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on ...

According to a new study, time spent online by the children aged between two and 11 in the US has surged by 63% in the last five years.


The average time spent online per month by children in the US has increased from nearly 7 hours in May 2004 to more than 11 hours in May 2009.
In comparison, ...

Along with Abraham Lincoln, US President Barack Obama also looks up to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela as his heroes for bringing the transformative change without violence by changing people's minds and hearts.

"Abraham Lincoln is probably the President who I find most compelling because ...

The first people in eight years to climb the narrow inner spiral up to the Statue of Liberty's crown were seven US immigrant soldiers who became US citizens under sparkling skies Saturday morning on the US Independence Day.
 

Lady Liberty, which has greeted millions of immigrants to the US ...

The robotic version of US President Barack Obama was displayed at an event on Friday at the Walt Disney World in Orlando.

The animated and speaking figure of the US President and some 1,000 newly-naturalised citizens attended the opening of a newly revamped Hall of Presidents at the theme park, ...

The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, addresses a budget deficit of about $24.3 billion and has called for a fiscal emergency.


The Governor also ordered many state offices to close for three days every month until June 2010, with staff not paid for those days. California is one of ...

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday criticized the military’s rebellion that expelled the Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, saying that the event has caused interruption in the democratic and constitutional order in the Central American nation.

Zelaya was present in the 192-nation assembly ...

Kapil Sibal, India's HRD minister, Aneesh Chopra, America's chief technology officer, and Sam Pitroda, India's National Knowledge Commission chairman, will be the key speakers at the Pan-IIT Global Conference to be held in Chicago during October 9-11.

About 3,000 IITians from around the globe ...

Bernard Madoff, the mastermind of biggest financial fraud in US, was sentenced to 150 years in prison on Monday.

New York Judge Denny Chin said the 71-year-old Madoff's $65 billion financial fraud that affected hundreds of investors around the world was unprecedented in this century.

His ...

"I am pleased to announce the appointment of Farah Pandith to serve as Special Representative to Muslim Communities," she said making a formal announcement about the creation of a new office responsible for US "efforts to engage with Muslims around the world on a people-to-people and ...

The 219-212 vote marks a major victory for President Barack Obama, who has made global warming and clean energy legislation a top priority for his administration.

But the legislation deeply divided US politicians, businesses and even climate groups. The outcome of the House vote was uncertain ...

US President Barack Obama invited key lawmakers to the White House on Thursday to initiate a debate on the immigration laws that has long stalled in the US Congress.
 
 Reforming US immigration laws involves shoring up the country's borders and dealing with about 12 million illegal ...

The governor of the US state of South Carolina, who had been missing for a week, finally turned up Wedensday and admitted to an affair with an Argentinian woman.
Mark Sanford, a Republican, vanished June 18 without telling either his family or staff where he was headed. In a press conference after ...

The US military believes there will be an upsurge in violence in Iraq ahead of the planned withdrawal of its forces from major Iraqi cities at the end of this month.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters Wednesday that violence in Iraq had typically spiked ahead of key dates such as ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in talks with one of her family's "staunchest loyalists", former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, to serve as a consultant to the State Department, the New York Times reported said Wednesday.
Blumenthal, who worked as an aide to president Bill ...

The US threw its support behind greener vehicles and electric cars Tuesday, approving $8 billion in loans to carmakers Ford Motor, Nissan and Tesla Motors.
The loans are the first to be granted from a $25-billion fund for more fuel-efficient technologies that was approved by Congress in ...

US President Barack Obama Tuesday strongly rejected Iranian accusations of interfering in the election crisis and in some of his toughest language yet said he was "appalled and outraged" by the violent crackdown on protestors.
Obama dismissed as "patently false and absurd" ...

US President Barack Obama Monday signed legislation that forces new restrictions on US tobacco companies and gives the government broad new powers to regulate the industry.
Obama said the law, which was passed by both houses of Congress earlier this month, "represents change that's been ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will undergo surgery for her fractured right elbow, the State Department said.

Clinton, 61, was taken to George Washington University Hospital, where doctors determined the break would require an operation, the New York Times quoted State Department spokesman ...

NASA launched a dual mission on Thursday to help pave the way for humans to return to the moon, as the US space agency looks beyond the continuing needs of the International Space Station.
The Atlas V rocket launch lifted off at 5:32 p.m. (2132 GMT), 20 minutes into planned, from NASA's Cape ...

The US Senate offered a formal apology for slavery on Thursday, five months after Barack Obama became the country's first African-American president.

The Senate's non-binding resolution "acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery" in the past ...

North Korea on Wednesday renewed its threats of military strikes against the US and its allies in case the Stalinist state felt provoked.
"If the US and its followers infringe upon our republic's sovereignty even a bit, our military and people will launch a 100 or 1,000-fold retaliation with ...