Protesters from Occupy DC, facing a clampdown on their encampment on Monday, stripped down for a topless street party on Saturday outside a black-tie gala for Washington's biggest movers and shakers.

Rating agency Fitch cut its ratings of five eurozone countries including Italy and Spain and lowered its outlook on Ireland, citing their poor finances and vulnerability to sharp turns in market senti

Aneesh Chopra, President Barack Obama's information technology honcho, who was the highest ranking Indian American in the Obama administration, is leaving the White House, apparently to try his hand a

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has expressed concern about Pakistan's treatment of a doctor who helped the United States find Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.

The doctor, Shikal Afridi, has been

A host of issues, like civil nuclear cooperation, Iran and Afghanistan figured in talks between secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Indian envoy Nirupama Rao, with both agreeing to work for consolidating the “tremendous progress” made in boosting Indo-US strategic ties.

The Pentagon on Thursday proposed trimming the Army's size by 13 per cent as the debt-ridden United States winds down a decade of war but vowed new investments to exert power in Asia and the Middle Ea

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has made clear that she won't be serving in a second Obama term if there is one, is ready to step off 'the high wire of American politics'.

Clinton told State

The WikiLeaks document dump, which saw hundreds of thousands of classified US files leaked, rattled US intelligence officials, forcing them to implement reforms to prevent another such breach.

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American billionaire Bill Gates has called for raising taxes in the country, and feels the rich people should swallow a larger burden of the tax hike.

“Even as the economy improves and you end the w