An alligator crawling across the parking lot of a supermarket parking lot on New York's Long Island was captured after an alert shopper saw it and called police, a day after another reptile spooted in

A firefight between NATO troops and their Afghan allies killed five people in circumstances that remained murky Sunday against a background of increasing 'insider' attacks on coalition troops.

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US President Barack Obama on Sunday set the table for his first debate with Mitt Romney, billing the clash as about security for hard working Americans, not who could fire off the best 'zingers'.

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A high-speed chase turned ugly for Fox News on Friday when it televised -- live -- a fleeing carjacking suspect shooting himself in the head in the Arizona desert.

Twitter exploded in reaction to the

A US Army brigadier general has been charged with forcible sodomy and other offences after being sent home from Afghanistan.

The Fayetteville Observer newspaper reported today that Brig Gen Jeffrey

The US visa processing system has been modified with effect from Wednesday to simplify fee payment and appointment scheduling through a new website, www.ustraveldocs.com/in.

Visa applicants will be a

An inflammatory ad equating Islamic jihad with savagery was posted on Monday in 10 New York City subway stations, even as much of the Muslim world was still seething over a California-made movie ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad.

Two US Marines will face trial by courts martial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and posing for photographs with them, the Pentagon said on Monday.

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Having declared that his Presidential campaign does not need a makeover, Republican Mitt Romney raised millions of dollars at two fundraisers in southern California on Saturday to help bankroll the fi

A US airline passenger who lost his iPad on board used a special app to find it, in the home of one of the flight attendants, police said.

The attendant, identified as 43-year-old Horizon Air employe