US President Barack Obama planned on Monday to promote US Army General Martin Dempsey, who commanded an armored division in key battles in Iraq, to the top uniformed military position in the country, a US source said.

President Barack Obama moved on Monday to complete an overhaul of the national security apparatus, selecting Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as his new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman amid a winding down of t

The Taliban has said they have no plans to attack Pakistan's nuclear arsenal as it is the only Muslim state to possess such weapons, amid global concerns over the possibility of atomic weapons falling

The Taliban has said they have no plans to attack Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, asserting that it is the only Muslim state possessing such weapons and the terror group aims to take over the country as well as its nukes.

Babies as young as one year old are capable of making judgements about the probability of an event they have never seen before, a new study has claimed.

US President Barack Obama has made history by using an autopen - an automatic signing machine - from an ocean away to sign a legislation into law hours before expiry. And stirred a new controversy.

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US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has not given clean chit to Pakistan's ISI over Osama bin Laden's presence in the country, her spokesman said on Saturday.

The United States on Friday called on China to speed up progress in making its currency more flexible, but refrained from branding Beijing a currency manipulator, a move that could trigger sanctions.

The moon may have a lot more water than imagined, perhaps as much as on earth in some parts, a study said on Thursday, in a discovery that has cast doubt on long-held theories about how it was formed.

Pakistan has agreed to allow the Central Investigation Agency (CIA) to send a forensics team to examine the Abbottabad compound where al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was killed, US officials have sai