WASHINGTON - The US has partially waived off sanctions against Myanmar following a series of political reforms in the formerly military ruled South East Asian nation.

The waiver was signed by US...

Actress Anne Hathaway and actor Adam Shulman threw an engagement party for family and friends in New York.

Hathaway joked that her beau ruined her plans to stay single.

"I am very much in love with...

The Obama administration is urging a group of Iranian dissidents living in northeastern Iraq to make a decision about moving to a new transit center near Baghdad as part of a U.N.-backed process of...

Criticizing American think tank reports on differences between India and China on several issues, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said relations between the two nations are...

Eli Manning has revealed that his 11-month-old daughter, Ava Frances, learned how to clap after he led the New York Giants to a victory over the New England Patriots for their second title in five...

Actor Clint Eastwood has insisted there was "no spin" in the Chrysler Super Bowl advertisement in which he starred, and that the spot was not meant to reflect a message about the Obama administrative...

American swimming legend Mark Spitz has said Ian Thorpe faces a "monumental task" to qualify for the relays at the London Olympics, six years after retiring from the sport.

Spitz said Thorpe's...

Gisele Bundchen defended her husband Tom Brady's performance at Super Bowl but criticized the New England Patriots' teammates for their loss in the hands of New York Giants.

After the Super Bowl,...

US State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland has said that the decision over granting US citizenship to Dr Shakil Afridi, the man who allegedly helped the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) track...

The United Kingdom was forced to plead with the US to take part in the flotilla challenging Iranian power in the Gulf after American commanders decided the British military had nothing to contribute...

Ricky Martin, who is in New York these days getting ready for his return to the Broadway stage, will play a Spanish teacher in a popular television series "Glee".

Martin will play David Martinez, a...

President Barack Obama is preferred by 52 percent of Americans compared with 43 percent who favour Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, a Washington Post-ABC News...

US President Barack Obama has ordered the freezing of Iran's property under American jurisdiction, including that of the country's central bank, the White House said.

The US and its allies are...

NEW YORK Mining giant Xstrata and Glencore, the world's biggest commodity trader, have announced a $90 billion all-share merger to create the world's fourth largest natural resources company....

Many Republicans want President Obama to fail. That's completely understandable and defensible, if one is talking about success or failure in his re-election campaign. It's stunning when...

While the New York Giants will no doubt be visiting the White House in the coming weeks to celebrate their Super Bowl win, President Obama was honoring a different group of champions Tuesday-more...

FALL RIVER, Mass. -; Two former Massachusetts recreation managers have admitted that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them of reckless endangerment of a child for opening a murky...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -; An Ohio lawmaker's proposal to regulate exotic animals in the state is not ready for introduction this week. Republican state Sen. Troy Balderson of Zanesville sent a...

FILE - In a Tuesday Aug. 10, 2010 file photo, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel speaks to reporters after casting her ballot in the Georgia runoff election in Roswell, Ga. Handel,...

NEW CITY, N.Y. -; A guilty plea has averted a trial in an attempted murder case that brought unusual attention to a religious dispute in a Jewish enclave in New York. Defense attorney Deborah...

WASHINGTON -; The prospects for an extension of President Barack Obama's signature payroll tax cut, once considered a slam dunk on Capitol Hill, now seem far less certain as House-Senate talks...

The stylish stucco home of philanthropists Lawrence and Glenna Shapiro is shown on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 in Paradise Valley, Ariz. Police found two bodies that had been tied up and burned beyond...

ATLANTA -; A federal appeals court has rejected arguments from a former counselor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who claims her religious rights were violated because she was...

WASHINGTON -; A Muslim civil rights group wants the Justice Department to investigate the tactics of FBI agents in Portland after two Libyan-Americans from Oregon were barred from returning to the...

As of Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at least 1,769 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -; South Carolina says in a lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department was wrong to block the state from requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote. ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -; The U.S. Justice Department was wrong to block South Carolina from requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote, the state's top prosecutor argued...

(New York, NY) — The Endometriosis Foundation of America (EFA) will hold its Third Annual EFA Scientific/Surgical Symposium on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 (7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.) - Thursday March...

February 7, 2012 The Department Of Homeland Security is the very epitome of unnecessary bureaucracy. Its formation was predicated on the existence of terrorist threats, many of which the U.S....

February 7, 2012 Ron Paul has warned that a new agency — founded under the Federal Reserve dominated Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — is itself an...

House Democrats are largely putting aside environmental concerns for the moment in favor of focusing on an "only in America" agenda as their marketing strategy against Keystone XL...

blog post from the American Beverage Association, people see these tax proposals as a "money grab" to fund more government. "Taxes don't make people healthy," the ABA's...

Stung by critical stories about their crime laboratory, officials at Army Criminal Investigation Command recently questioned lab employees for hours and scrutinized personal phone records looking for...

EUREKA, Calif. -- A California woman accused of killing her infant son by breastfeeding him after she used methamphetamine has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.The Times-Standard of Eureka...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for a likely appeal to the U.S....

WASHINGTON -- The House has passed a bill that would set up a commission to help decide which unused buildings the government can dispose of.The commission would make recommendations to the...

A national accreditation group has reinstated the certification of the Connecticut crime lab where U.S. Justice Department audits last year found a series of...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for a likely appeal to the U.S....

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012 file photo, trader Kevin Lodewick, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A strong one-day rally _ caused by a deal to lock down badly needed bailout...

A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow...

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, Alyssa Bustamante, 15, listens during a brief hearing where her attorney entered not guilty pleas on her behalf to charges of armed criminal action and...

SEATTLE -- The summer after Susan Powell disappeared, her father said, her young son Braden drew a picture at day care of a van with three people in it and told caregivers it showed his family going...

Maria Medina's life is littered with the destruction of diabetes. Her neighbor had a foot amputated because of the disease. Her mother went blind from it. Her sister died of it.Damage that...