US Vice President Joe Biden saluted his boss on Thursday as a man of steel who neutralised Osama bin Laden, as he reduced Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney to a foreign policy neophyte "mired

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the death penalty is possible if a US military court finds an Army staff sergeant guilty of gunning down Afghan children and family members. But it isn't likely.

US lawmakers Friday pressed President Barack Obama to nominate economist Jeffrey Sachs as the next World Bank president with the White House apparently scrambling to pick a candidate ahead of next wee

US Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday defended the government's use of 'lethal force', even against American citizens abroad, as part of the effort to protect the nation against terror attacks.

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A senior US judge has written to President Barack Obama apologising for a racist joke he sent in an email, and has also initiated a judicial complaint procedure against himself.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monday said the crisis emanating from downgrading of the US sovereign debt rating would have only limited impact on India and highlighted the Indian economy's resilienc