United States

Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010 who is currently busy preparing for the Miss Universe pageant, scheduled to be held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on August 23 has strongly opposed the idea of Ground Zero mosque.
 
Rima, 24 said that the mosque should not be so close to the ...

US President, Barack Obama, will be taking the charge of the UN Security Council session which is scheduled to be held next month.  This session will be discussion on nuclear disarmament, which is the first of such events to be held by the Security Council, which was formed for the maintenance ...

US President, Barack Obama, has wished good luck to the Muslims around the globe on Friday, as they are all set to initiate the preparations for fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
 
According to the US President, he still wishes to put the relations between the US and Muslim countries ...

Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State is scheduled to visit South Africa next week as part of her seven-nation tour of Africa.
 
Clinton’s tour is slated to start on Aug 5 when she arrives in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to attend the 8th US-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic ...

A memorandum on climate change and clean energy has been signed by US and China on Tuesday that sets out a path for improving cooperation between the world's two leading polluters.
 
But there were few details on what the "memorandum of understanding" entails. Government officials ...

US Special Middle East ambassador George Mitchell Monday called on Israel, the Palestinians and Arab states to take steps to promote a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, calling it one of President Barack Obama's "top priorities".
 
"We believe that a full, comprehensive ...

Top US and Chinese officials have launched a "Strategic and Economic Dialogue" on Monday for addressing the key issues ranging from their response to the global financial crisis, climate change and nuclear proliferation to threat from extremists.
 
President Barack Obama, Secretary ...

According to the US President, Barack Obama, the relations between the United States and China will be critical for the success of a whole host of global issues.
 
"The relationship between the United States and China will shape the 21st century," Obama said in Washington, urging ...

According to the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, Iran will never be able to achieve its goal of obtaining a nuclear weapon. She said: "Your pursuit is futile."
 
"What we want to do is to send a message to whoever is making these decisions, that if you're pursuing ...

Hillary Clinton says that she is now convinced that her boss and one time rival President Barack Obama is actually very international savvy and tough and is doing an incredible job.
 
"Those were appropriate issues to raise in the campaign," said Clinton who had questioned Barack ...

Sarah Palin, the former Republican US vice-presidential candidate, has left unclear her future political plans on Sunday as she formally ended her tenure as governor of the state of Alaska.
 
Palin, 45, gave a shock to the political spectators earlier this month when she announced that she ...

Barack Obama, the US President, is seeking to put off a raging racial flame with an expression of regret for saying that police had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black scholar and an offer to patch up with beer at the White House.
 
"Because this has been ratcheting up and I ...

The US law enforcement and intelligence agencies have plans to conduct a massive anti-terrorism exercise in the country in collaboration with four other nations.
 
All the security officials in the country will participate in the five-day exercise that will begin on Monday. ...

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, told that US has transferred 200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority to help it fill a serious budget shortfall.
 
The money is part of a $900-million aid pledge to the Palestinians made by Clinton at an Arab summit earlier this year. ...

Admiral Mullen, the top most US military official said that Pakistan's spy agency, ISI, has been "fomenting chaos" in Kashmir and advised Islamabad to restrain it.
 
"I believe that in the long run the ISI has to change its strategic thrust which has been to foment chaotic ...

According to US Vice President, Joe Biden, the US considers Georgia as a vital strategic partner and will continue to safeguard its security. He also added that the US will work for developing the Georgian economic and diplomatic reform.
 
He told that the US will be continuing to cooperate ...

The US President, Barack Obama, has said that the country's struggling economy is on its way to recovery, but warned that the job market will be the last thing to return to normal.
 
In an evening press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Obama defended his own prescriptions for ...

The US President, Barack Obama, has called for greater reconciliation between Iraq's ethnic groups during a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, at the White House on Wednesday.
 
Coming to agreements on contentious issues is essential to a unified Iraq and its stability in ...

The US President Barack Obama said that his administration is building a 21st century education system in America to compete with "China and India and everybody else all around the world".
 
The US has "to ensure that we're educating and preparing our people for the new jobs ...

The US President Barack Obama started his first meeting with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday morning at the Russian prime minister's country residence present outside Moscow.
Obama, on his first visit to Russia after becoming president, held extensive talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on ...

Along with Abraham Lincoln, US President Barack Obama also looks up to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela as his heroes for bringing the transformative change without violence by changing people's minds and hearts.

"Abraham Lincoln is probably the President who I find most compelling because ...

The robotic version of US President Barack Obama was displayed at an event on Friday at the Walt Disney World in Orlando.

The animated and speaking figure of the US President and some 1,000 newly-naturalised citizens attended the opening of a newly revamped Hall of Presidents at the theme park, ...

The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, addresses a budget deficit of about $24.3 billion and has called for a fiscal emergency.


The Governor also ordered many state offices to close for three days every month until June 2010, with staff not paid for those days. California is one of ...

Bernard Madoff, the mastermind of biggest financial fraud in US, was sentenced to 150 years in prison on Monday.

New York Judge Denny Chin said the 71-year-old Madoff's $65 billion financial fraud that affected hundreds of investors around the world was unprecedented in this century.

His ...

US President Barack Obama invited key lawmakers to the White House on Thursday to initiate a debate on the immigration laws that has long stalled in the US Congress.
 
 Reforming US immigration laws involves shoring up the country's borders and dealing with about 12 million illegal ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in talks with one of her family's "staunchest loyalists", former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, to serve as a consultant to the State Department, the New York Times reported said Wednesday.
Blumenthal, who worked as an aide to president Bill ...