US President Barack Obama announced early on Saturday that the United States formally recognised the newly created Republic of South Sudan and vowed to support it.

The top US military officer has left for China in a trip designed to bolster a fledgling security dialogue with Beijing, even as a US naval exercise in the South China Sea threatens to upstage his visit.

Pakistan Government may have sanctioned the abduction and subsequent killing of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, a top US military official has said.

As defence minister, he inked a game-changing defence pact with the US, as foreign minister, he signed the historic India-US civil nuclear deal and now as finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee is all set to put India and the US on the path of a “strategic economic” relationship.

Two years after Michael Jackson’s shock death, the mystery over exactly how he died continues to fuel legal wrangling, conspiracy theories and family strains over the King of Pop’s clouded legacy.

A cellphone used by Osama bin Laden’s courier appears to show that the Al Qaeda leader was aided by militants linked to Pakistani intelligence, The New York Times said on Thursday.

President Barack Obama said US should avoid unilateral military action overseas and follow the Libyan model where international forces have joined hands against Muammar Gaddafi regime.

Most Pakistanis see India as a bigger threat than the Taliban and the Al Qaeda and disapprove of the US military operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a new poll.

The US Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of Leon Panetta, the CIA director, to be the next Pentagon chief.

Former ambassador to China Jon Huntsman chided his ex-boss President Barack Obama on Wednesday for what he criticised as a too-tentative plan to draw down US forces in Afghanistan.