For every American setting an alarm clock to go off before dawn on Friday to catch the Royal Wedding, there is at least one curmudgeon glowering in a corner, eagerly waiting for the whole thing to be

On a sultry afternoon in Washington's Chinatown, dozens of teenage girls tried on silk and satin evening dresses, chose glittery bling and handbags to match, and walked out without paying.

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The identity of one of the Titanic's most famous passengers, a little boy known as the ‘unknown child,’ has finally been recognized, a team of American and Canadian researchers has revealed.

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CIA Director Leon Panetta will become the new US Defence Secretary replacing Robert Gates, in a major shake-up of President Barack Obama's security team.

The top US military commander in Afghanistan

Seeking to put an end to a controversy over his birthplace, Barack Obama on Wednesday released his birth certificate, which showed that he was born in the American state of Hawaii, making him constitu

The United States has ordered embassy families and some staff out of Syria as it has hardened its tone on Damascus's crackdown on protests without calling for President Bashar al-Assad to go.

Al-Qaeda terrorists have threatened to unleash a 'nuclear hellstorm' on the West if their leader and world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden is nabbed.

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Al-Qaeda supremo Osama bin Laden and his deputy spent a frantic three months traveling non-stop across Afghanistan after 9/11, according to secret US military files released by WikiLeaks.

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A US religious figure whose father advised several US presidents said in a interview to be broadcast on Sunday that he may back real estate tycoon Donald Trump's 2012 bid for the White House.

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In gruelling conflicts in Pakistan and now Libya, the spotlight is being thrust on America's use of pilotless drones. But US military officials insist they are far from faceless machines.

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