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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said on Monday it will deploy for the first time a laser weapon on one of its ships that...
LONDON (Reuters) - The global economy is recovering - although the younger you are and the longer you've been out of work...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday picked Indiana University to win the NCAA annual men's college...
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Israel on Wednesday without any new peace initiative to offer disillus...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Arab-American groups have sharply criticized a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad depicting an Arab walking thro...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry's nomination as President Barack Obama's new secretary of state sailed through the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Monday to reject political "absolutism" and partis...
(Reuters) - Boeing Co rolled out the Dreamliner's chief engineer to try to quell concerns about the new jet following thr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., the hard-charging U.S. Army general whose forces smashed the Iraqi army in the...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For British director Tom Hooper, the key to turning "Les Miserables" from the wildly popular s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya was grossly inadequate to deal with a September 11 att...
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold on Thursday after eight days of confl...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. lawmakers turned up the heat on Sunday on Susan Rice, saying the U.N. ambassador - see...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama consoled grieving victims of Superstorm Sandy on the ground and surveyed disaster...
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to mark the Veterans ...
(Reuters) - New details emerged on Sunday about the extramarital affair that abruptly ended the career of CIA chief David Pet...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers awoke to the rumble of subway trains for the first time in four days on Thursday and the dea...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was to resume campaigning on Thursday after a pause caused by the U.S. east coast...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy blew the U.S. presidential race off course on Sunday even before it came ashore, forci...
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama scolded challenger Mitt Romney for being "all over the map" ...
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney face off on Monday in their third and final debat...
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney launched a fresh attempt on Monday to pa...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will warn Iran on Tuesday that the United States will "do what we must"...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Family members of a California man linked to an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests acros...
ZURICH (Reuters) - Oslo is the most expensive city in the world, ahead of Zurich and Tokyo, but the well-paid residents of th...
LONDON (Reuters) - Should Eric Clapton ever decide to hang up the guitar, he might try his hand at art dealing.The 67-year-ol...
WASHINGTON/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to "bring to justice" the Islamist...
By Patricia ReaneyNEW YORK (Reuters) - London topped New York as the global fashion capital for the second consecutive year, ...
ROME/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global alarm over a potential repeat of the 2008 food crisis escalated after data showed food prices...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Emmy-nominated psychological thriller "Homeland" will focus more on personal relationships ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Law enforcement agencies in the United States are behind the overwhelming majority of requests for ...
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Pop superstar Madonna kicked off a new world tour on Thursday wishing peace on the Middle East even as s...
SEOUL/LONDON (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics launched its top-of-the-range Galaxy S3 smartphone in Europe on Tuesday, aiming ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New action movie "Battleship" collided with Iron Man, The Hulk and the rest of "The Av...
GENEVA (Reuters) - A diamond coveted by kings, queens and princes for centuries, used to reinforce alliances between nations ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The would-be suicide bomber in a plot by al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate was planted in the group by a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New signs of lower U.S. gas prices could give a boost to President Barack Obama's re-election hope...
MANAMA (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday while rage boiled beyo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are threatened by rising gasoline prices, propos...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As he locks down the Republican nomination for U.S. president, Mitt Romney is framing what looks to be...
TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Robert Bales built a life around a call to arms. A call that emanated from the ashes of the Wo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican proposal to give a permit to the Keystone XL crude ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on a...
Singers James Blunt and Katherine Jenkins have been forced to return to the U.K. after technical problems blighted their trip...
(Reuters) - The average U.S. price of gasoline jumped 18 cents a gallon in the past two weeks due to rising costs of crude oi...
By Alister Bull and Laura MacInnisWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Monday for new spending to boost gr...
LONDON (Reuters) - A golfing fairytale came true when little-known Briton Robert Rock outplayed 14-times major winner Tiger W...
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Tiger Woods has declared he is the fittest he has been in around a decade ahead of his first tournament...
KABUL (Reuters) - A video showing what appear to be American forces urinating on dead Taliban fighters prompted anger in Afgh...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran announced on Monday it had sentenced a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen to death for spying for the CIA, cre...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military pre...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manufacturing grew at its fastest pace in six months in December, capping a late-year upswing, but a Eur...
GRABOVNICA, Croatia (Reuters) - Zlatko Salaj has come a long way from the bleak Christmases of his youth.The 67-year old form...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Army intelligence analyst suspected in the biggest leak of classified U.S. documents in history mak...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, "The Protester" was named Time magazi...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Orson Welles' Oscar for writing "Citizen Kane" -- regarded as one of the best films ever ma...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden has urged Turkey to pass new sanctions against Iran, increasing pressure on Washi...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Cairo police fought protesters demanding an end to army rule for a third day on Monday and the death toll r...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sitting in a barber shop in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City slum, three friends agreed after a long and hard ...
Paul McCartney gave the Formula 1 World Championship an extra gear in Abu Dhabi over the weekend by introducing the world's t...
The following story is the result of a reporting trip by Reuters correspondent Oliver Holmes to the Sahara desert town of Oba...
LONDON (Reuters) - Simple reforms would eliminate much of the risk of investing in poor countries, unleashing billions of dol...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Reality star Kim Kardashian, who married basketball player Kris Humphries in a lavish made-for-TV wedding i...
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) - The United States accused Iran of backing an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washi...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Either Iran could build a nuclear bomb in a matter of months or it is unlikely to get such a weapon any ti...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday took its first step on the Palestinian application to join ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no short cut to Middle East ...
Tony Bennett has apologized for suggesting the American government "caused" the 9/11 terrorist attacks by sparking ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to urge him to d...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that two American men arrested near Iran's border wi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States was stronger 10 years after the September 11...
LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has no regrets about helping bring former Libyan leader M...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tourists flock to Times Square for the bright lights and Broadway shows. There they find another spectac...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rebel forces began to purge Tripoli's streets of diehard gunmen still loyal to fugitive Muammar Gaddafi T...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi was a hunted man on Monday as loyal remnants of his forces made last-ditch stands in the ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The implosion of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year-old rule will put a new spring in the step of the...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into a courtroom cage in a hospital bed Wednesday to face trial for killi...
