US First Lady Michelle Obama has signed on to micro-blogging site 'Twitter' and within a few hours gained over 100,000 followers. "We're excited on Friday to launch @michelleobama as a new way for you

US President Barack Obama has called the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the progress in recent Israel-Palestine peace talks as well as the West's continuing standoff with Iran ov

The United States has used a secret channel to warn Iran's leaders against closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, saying that doing so would provoke a US response, the New York Times reported.

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The UN's rights body has concluded that France had violated the religious freedom of a 76-year-old Sikh man when he was asked to remove his turban for his ID photograph, a US-based Sikh group has s

A senior Obama administration official has said that India should ensure the full implementation of the India-US civil nuclear deal and that New Delhi is aware about this but have not done it yet.

US has warned Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that any move to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz would amount to crossing the 'red line' that would provoke an American response.

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A 24-year-old US soldier, accused of committing the biggest intelligence leak of classified government information in American history to WikiLeaks, may face a general court-martial.

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The male-specific Y-chromosome is shrinking at different rates across species — but there is no risk of men being extinct, says a new study.

The US on Thursday said it has neither sought nor received assurances that the Pakistani army will not stage a coup, even as it made it clear that it supports a 'civilian-led government' in the cou

The Marine Corps said on Wednesday it is investigating a video depicting what appears to be four Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.

In a statement, the Marine Corps said it has not