The United States warned on Tuesday it would ratchet up pressure and ready new sanctions on Iran after the UN nuclear watchdog said its arch foe had worked on sensitive nuclear weapons technology.

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A US judge on Monday blocked the government's attempt to place graphic warning labels on cigarette packs, saying big tobacco was likely to succeed in arguing it was a violation of free speech.

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Forty-eight percent of US middle and high school students suffered sexual harassment in the past school year, both in person and online, a national survey released today said.

And 87 per cent of thos

US President Barack Obama has extended the national emergency against Iran by one more year, which has been in place since 1979.

"Because our relations with Iran have not yet returned to normal and

Pakistan's ISI was aware of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad and the spy agency officials also provided protection and safe houses to his then deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, accord

Exactly a year before the presidential polls, half of Americans say President Barack Obama does not deserve to be re-elected versus 40 percent who say he does, according to a new poll.

Independents,

Paleonto-logists have unearthed fossils of what they believe is a giant prehistoric crocodile with a shield-like skull that may have preyed on 13-foot-long fish in Moroccan rivers some 100 million years ago.

Citigroup's Indian American chief executive Vikram Pandit says last week's collapse of MF Global Holdings Inc. proves that the financial world needs ever more transparency on disclosure and derivative

Minutes before the operation to hunt down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan began, US President Barack Obama was playing golf so that he could "distance himself" in case the raid went wrong, claims a new bo

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that the country's nuclear weapons are very hard targets and can never be attacked by the United States.

"I don't think it is possible from my pur