Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union launched a campaign Wednesday to push

The United States yesterday joined more than 20 countries in creating 40 new marine sanctuaries around the world to protect oceans from the threat of climate change and pollution.

The woman dramatically kissed by a sailor celebrating the end of World War II in an iconic photograph seen around

Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks yesterday with a moment of silence,

An American Airlines Boeing 767 making a Boston-Los Angeles connection with 92 people on board -- including

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Friday that half the supporters of her Republican rival

The US House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday that would allow the families of victims of the Sept 11 attacks to sue

President Barack Obama yesterday urged Americans to remain united in the face of terrorist attacks, in a barely-veiled jab at Republican

The FBI is taking "very seriously" the possibility a foreign country is trying to meddle with America's electoral process and even

US President Barack Obama yesterday urged Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte to conduct his crime war "the right way", as the pair clashed at an Asian summit over the crackdown that has claimed 3,000 lives.

Hillary Clinton yesterday sought to polish her image as a strong leader with a command of major global challenges -- the IS jihadist group first among them -- while discrediting Republican rival Donald Trump as unfit for the White House.

US swimmer Ryan Lochte is slapped with a 10-month suspension following his bogus gunpoint robbery story during a drunken night out at the Olympics.

The US is likely to respond positively to India's request for 22 unarmed high-tech multi-mission Predator Guardian drones for

People forced from their homes by religious violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state gathered yesterday to meet former

Almost 50 million children throughout the world are "uprooted," forcibly displaced from their home countries by

Kim Jong-Un labelled North Korea's latest missile tests "perfect", state media said yesterday, as he called for the

From the moment Barack Obama touched down in China, his last G20 summit seemed likely to be a tricky one.

The race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the White House has tightened with two months to go before Election

President Barack Obama yesterday pledged to dramatically increase US efforts to clear millions of bombs secretly

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a longer-than-expected discussion yesterday