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Published:Friday | October 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):A fruitless meeting between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders deepened the impression that the government shutdown could persist into mid-October and become entangled with an even more consequential battle over raising the nation's borrowing limit to avoid a disastrous debt default.

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 5:20 PM

She attempted to ram through a White House barricade, then led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where police shot and killed her, witnesses and officials said.

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 3:05 PM

A woman driving a black Lexus tried to ram through a White House barricade, then led police on a chase that ended in gunfire outside the Capitol, witnesses and officials said.

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 2:08 PM

A police officer was reported injured after gunshots at the US Capitol, police said today.

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 12:11 PM

It is one of the deadliest recent accidents in the perilous Mediterranean Sea crossing that thousands of African migrants make every year, seeking a new life in the European Union.

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 9:16 AM

The court found Ryanair acted illegally when it employed more than 120 staff on Irish contracts at its former Marseille operating hub between 2007 and 2010.

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Grenada has signed an agreement with a Chinese company for the construction of over 2,000 middle-income housing units over the next five years

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says it has entered into an agreement with Spain for a citizen security project that will focus on youth and gender issues as well as youth entrepreneurship

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP):Three Venezuelan diplomats were ordered out of the United States (US) on Tuesday in response to their government's decision to boot three US officials from Venezuela, including the highest-ranking US envoy in the country.Venezuelan...

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Bolivian officials say they've found $1 million in a bag tossed from an airplane.Government Minister Carlos Romero says anti-drug police spotted a man who was signalling to a...

Published:Wednesday | October 2, 2013 | 1:31 PM

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate panel that an estimated 70 per cent of intelligence employees had been placed on unpaid leave.

Published:Wednesday | October 2, 2013 | 8:31 AM

President Uhuru Kenyatta told the gathering that religion had been used to try and divide Kenyans but faith had instead united them.

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2013 | 6:25 AM

This comes after a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and ...

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ROME (AP):Investors are reacting with concern to the possibility that Italy's government might collapse this week, but experts say the political turmoil has not yet reached the point where it threatens to reignite Europe's financial crisis.

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):New York is indeed an expensive place, but experts say that alone doesn't explain a recent report that found the city's annual cost per inmate was US $167,731 last year, nearly as much as it costs to pay for four years of tuition at an Ivy...

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem (right) walks with Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari as he arrives for an interview during the 68th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly at UN headquarters on the weekend.

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

(AP):The world is ageing so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study by the United Nations (UN) and an elder rights group.The report ranks the social and economic...

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

FORT WORTH (AP):American Airlines says it will hire 1,500 new pilots over the next five years and offer jobs to the remaining pilots who are still furloughed.American said yesterday that it would begin posting the new jobs this week and hire 45 to 50...

Published:Tuesday | October 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

RIYADH (AP):A Saudi doctor has gone on air to dismiss claims made by a well-known cleric who caused a stir when he said medical studies show driving affects a woman's ovaries.In comments aired over the weekend by the privately owned Rotana channel,...

Published:Monday | September 30, 2013 | 5:42 PM

The Democratic-led Senate voted 54-46 against the bill, which would fund the government only if President Obama's healthcare law were delayed a year.

Published:Monday | September 30, 2013 | 9:11 AM

The questions arose after Kenyan papers reported that the intelligence agency had issued warnings a year ago.

Published:Monday | September 30, 2013 | 12:00 AM

POTISKUM (AP): Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms in an ongoing Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria...

Published:Monday | September 30, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ATHENS (AP):A Greek lawmaker sought by police surrendered yesterday, bringing to six the number of legislators from the extreme-right Golden Dawn party now in custody and accused of being members of a criminal organisation with intent to commit...

Published:Sunday | September 29, 2013 | 5:53 PM

With the government teetering on the brink of partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed today to keep using an otherwise routine federal funding bill to try to attack the healthcare law.

Published:Sunday | September 29, 2013 | 12:03 PM

A car bomb ripped through a crowded street in Peshawar's oldest bazaar today, killing 40 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city in a week, officials said.

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