Twilight star Kristen Stewart appeared nervous as she limped her way to the microphone while presenting the Oscar for best production design with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe.

Ben Affleck’s Iranian hostage drama Argo won the best picture Oscar while Ang Lee pulled off a big surprise by taking home the best director trophy for Life of Pi, the story of a shipwrecked Indian boy, at the 85th Academy Awards here.

The Barack Obama administration took another step toward institutionalising gay marriage, formally asking the US Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 law defining marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is reportedly having trouble adjusting to her pregnant body and misses wearing her little dresses.

A day after Obama administration’s ambitious immigration plan that can pave way for some 11 million illegal immigrants, including nearly 2.5 lakh Indians, to become legal permanent residents in the US, was leaked, the proposal was labelled “dead on arrival”.

US F-16 fighter jets intercepted two small planes that separately violated flight restrictions set up in Florida for US President Barack Obama’s visit, according to a media report.

The divorce trial of Kim Kardashian and ex-husband Kris Humphries is set to begin from May 6. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star split from basketball player Humphries in November 2011 after just 72 days of marriage but they have so far failed to dissolve their union amicably and while Kardashian wanted a trial next month because of her pregnancy, it has been delayed till May, reported E! online.

President Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser has listed Mumbai attack convict David Headley among the high-value targets arrested by the US in the last four years.

Asserting the manufacturing sector added about five lakh jobs in the last three years, US President Barack Obama today said there was a need to accelerate this trend and make it a “magnet” of high-tech jobs and manufacturing.

The Indian American administrator of the USAID, Raj Shah, has been praised by US secretary of state John Kerry for his successful leadership to America’s foreign aid programme, in particular in developing countries.