Eating junk food regularly is not just bad for your waistline, it can also damage your liver in a way similar to hepatitis, a new study has found.

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.

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.

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.

For the first time in American history, Senate Republicans blocked a nominee for secretary of defence, evoking an angry response from the White House, which termed the posturing against Chuck Hagel’s nomination an action against “national interest.”

Aiming to make America “a magnet of jobs and manufacturing”, US President Barack Obama plans to announce a slew of measures and incentives like ending tax breaks for moving jobs overseas, lowering rate for manufacturers and putting in place a global minimum tax, sources said.

President Barack Obama said North Korea’s latest nuclear test was a “highly provocative act” that hurt stability in the region and called its nuclear programme threat to US and international security.

The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden broke his silence Monday, recounting in an interview the night he shot the Al-Qaeda leader three times and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed civilian.

The US has defended its drone strikes against the al-Qaeda and Taliban in countries like Pakistan, saying the use of unmanned aircraft is “legal, ethical and wise” to prevent future terror attacks and save American lives.