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...

Kate Winslet has revealed in an interview that she had trouble getting former President Bill Clinton to take part in her latest charity project.

Winslet, 36, asked various celebrities to be...

An American federal appeals court has rejected California's same-sex marriage ban, setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown as early as next year.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S....

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...

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....

A Harvard scientist has created a new product that allows you to breath in your daily dose of caffeine. The small canisters carry 4-6 puffs of caffeinated powder, giving you about as much caffeine as...

o Even as the White House is signaling a willing to compromise, battle lines hardened over the Obama administration's dictate that employers, including religious institutions, offer...

An employee of a privately run Department of Revenue office in St. Louis County helped others provide Missouri IDs to undocumented immigrants, federal prosecutors say. In an indictment handed...

LOS ANGELES -; A retired Los Angeles police officer has testified in the trial of a veteran LAPD detective charged with the murder of her ex-lover's new wife. Steven Hooks told jurors...

NEW YORK -; Prosecutors have decided not to pursue charges against the police commissioner's son following a woman's claim that he raped her. "After reviewing all of the evidence,...

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...

PHOENIX -; The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a ruling that barred a woman from running for a city council seat because she doesn't speak English proficiently. The state's...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Media Relations University of Virginia shows Yeardley Love. George Huguely is charged with first-degree murder, robbery, burglary, breaking and entering,...

In this Feb. 3, 2012 photo, a welder works on steel pipe at the World Trade Center transportation hub construction site, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) -...

Historian Barry Landau walks out of federal court Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 in Baltimore. Landau plead guilty to stealing thousands of documents from historical societies and libraries stretching from...

PHILADELPHIA -; A federal judge on Tuesday recommended the release of an elderly man who remains in prison nearly two years after his acquittal on murder charges in the 2007 death of a police...

This photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. shows Michael Crane. Police said Crane, 31, would face two murder charges, as well as kidnapping, armed robbery, arson and burglary...

NEW YORK -; A New York City teacher's aide already accused of possessing child pornography was jailed Tuesday after prosecutors brought new allegations that he videotaped himself spanking one...

NEW YORK -; The criminal trial of a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. has been moved from April to May after his lawyer grumbled that prosecutors want to keep...

WASHINGTON -; Senate Democrats say they plan to take up a bill to extend federal highway programs next week, even though they are still figuring out how to pay for them. The Senate Finance...

Ivis Urbina, right, with her granddaughter Alexa Agillon, 6, protest with others outside Miramonte Elementary school in Los Angeles Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. About three dozen parents and supporters...

WASHINGTON -- A bill to speed the nation's switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years,...

priests first took to their pulpits more than a week ago to attack the new birth control mandate, the administration has been feeling heat from all sides. On Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney...

RICHARDSON, Texas -- A suspected gunman and another man are dead and a police officer and another bystander are wounded after a shootout at a suburban Dallas transit station.The incident happened...

BYRON, Ill. -- A northern Illinois nuclear plant is back up and running after a reactor lost power and shut down last week.Exelon Nuclear says the Unit 2 reactor at the Byron Generating Station...

Former Gov. Ed Rendell and Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider are leading a "civic-minded" effort to buy Philadelphia's two largest newspapers, Rendell said...

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 bizarre case at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher was charged with taking bondage-style photographs of children has expanded with the arrest of a second teacher suspected of fondling...

With his trademark flair for spectacle, Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday on the famed Las Vegas strip - just hours after Newt Gingrich's advisers were spreading the word...

A presidential historian is expected to plead guilty in a case in which he is accused of stealing documents signed by leading figures throughout western...

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,...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Silicon Valley is creating jobs and wealth for highly skilled workers but may be leaving some residents behind as employment closes in on pre-Great Recession levels, according to a...

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 camping:...