ATLANTA (AP): A gay Atlanta pastor and his partner who have been at the centre of a battle over the treatment of gay clergy by America's largest Lutheran denomination are being reinstated to the denomination's clergy roster...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Actor Corey Haim died from pneumonia, complicated by an enlarged heart, bad lungs and narrowed blood vessels, while drugs found in his system played no role in his death, the Los Angeles County coroner...
NEW YORK (AP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is confronting the threat of a new round of United Nations' (UN) economic sanctions on his country by saying experience shows sanctions cannot deter the Iranian nation...
WASHINGTON (AP):The suspect in the failed Times Square bombing told authorities he trained at a terrorism camp in Pakistan, officials said yesterday, as they worked to unravel the events leading up to the nearly...
WASHINGTON (AP): Iran has held unusually direct talks with a United States-based lawyer over the fate of an American businessman jailed nearly two years in Iran.A lawyer for Reza Taghavi has twice travelled to Tehran...
Historians and anti-racism campaigners say they intend to urge countries that oversaw and profited from the Atlantic slave trade to recognise it as a crime against humanity.
New York city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg says there’s no evidence that the failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in the city was the work of al-Qaeda or any other big terrorist group.
US Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, has approved controversial plans for the country\'s first offshore wind farm to operate off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.