Al-Qaeda is on a 'path of decline' following the deaths of top leaders but its affiliates are rising a threat in vulnerable regions, the US State Department warned in a report on Tuesday.

In its Coun

The United States kept Cuba on a blacklist of alleged state sponsors of terrorism for the 30th year running, the State Department said on Tuesday in an annual report.

Cuba angrily denounced the actio

An influential American lawmaker has expressed concern on the harsh and often-dangerous working conditions faced by workers in Apple's China-based factories and asked the company to report to it on th

Octomom Nadya Suleman and her toyboy Frankie G have apparently decided to end their love affair, after almost three months of courtship.

According to sources the mother of 14 has called it quits beca

Former Republican vice president Dick Cheney advised his party's candidate in the upcoming US elections to pick a running mate with more experience than Sarah Palin.

Palin was Republican presidential

The CIA station chief opened the locked box containing the sensitive equipment he used from his home in Tel Aviv, Israel, to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia, only to find that someone ha

Amid growing political opposition in India for easing of foreign investment norms in retail and other sectors, US-based companies like Wal-Mart and Prudential Financial are lobbying hard with their own lawmakers here to garner support for their Indian business expansion plans.

U.S. President Barack Obama has topped the league of world leaders with 17 million followers on Twitter, according to a survey of the social networking usage by heads of government.

According to The

A black couple in the US would never have imagined that their colour would come in the way of their marriage. The couple's dream of exchanging vows at a church they had been attending in Mississippi was dashed when they were turned away by the predominately-white church due to their skin colour, US media reports said.

Poverty will be virtually eliminated by 2030 globally, with a rising middle class of some two billion people pushing for more rights and demanding more resources, the chief of the National Intelligenc