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BBC News President Barack Obama has vowed to reduce US oil imports by one-third in little more than a decade. He said in a speech in Washington that America had to "get serious" about a secure and affordable energy future. Higher oil prices are threatening to hamper US economic recovery...

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Some public school parents in Edgewater, Florida, want a first-grade girl with life-threatening peanut allergies removed from the classroom and home-schooled, rather than deal with special rules to protect her health, a school official said. "That was one of the...

BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12795971 A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins. The target was a military vehicle, the French defence ministry said. It came hours after Western and Arab leaders met in...

BBC News March 6 Mexico has asked the US for detailed information on a law enforcement operation that allegedly allowed guns to be smuggled across the border. The request follows media reports that US federal agents allowed hundreds of guns to be smuggled into Mexico in the hope of...

BBC News March 2 Two US Air Force servicemen have died after a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying American military personnel at Frankfurt Airport, police say. Two servicemen were also wounded. One of the dead is said to have been the driver. All four were based at RAF Lakenheath in...

BBC News March 2 The US Supreme Court has ruled that a controversial anti-gay church has the right to picket military funerals by the free speech provision in the US Constitution. The court ruled 8-1 in favour of the Westboro Baptist Church, which was sued by the father of a dead US...

AP Feb 24 MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to try to find at least one of the 14 Senate Democrats who have been on the run for eight days to delay a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all public...

BBC News Feb 24 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations, a judge has ruled. At Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south London, District Judge Howard Riddle said the extradition would not breach Mr Assange's human rights. Mr...

AP Feb 20 AUSTIN, Texas – Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms. More than half the members of the Texas House have signed on as co-authors of a measure...

Mail A mother has criticised school authorities for committing her six-year-old son to a psychiatric ward against her wishes because of a picture he drew in class. Jack Dorman was pulled out of his elementary school classroom after he sketched a drawing of zombies and stick figures and...

BBC News Feb 20 Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son, Sayf al-Islam, has admitted the country's military over-reacted when dealing with protesters. But, speaking on Libyan TV, he accused the opposition and Islamist groups of trying to break up the country. He said troops had...

BBC News Feb 19 Libya Intense violence has been reported in Libya's second city, Benghazi, with troops said to have opened fire again on anti-government protesters. At least 15 people were killed and many more wounded, unconfirmed reports say. Witnesses described scenes of chaos as...

BBC News Feb 18 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Taliban fighters in Afghanistan that they face a stark choice between war and peace, as US military pressure on them mounts. "They cannot defeat us. And they cannot escape this choice," Mrs Clinton said in a speech in New...

Express Feb 17 Four people have been killed by Libyan government forces during protests against leader Muammar Gaddafi, an opposition website has said. The deaths in the city of Beyida came as activists using Facebook and Twitter called for nationwide anti-government demonstrations...

BBC News Feb 17 Buckingham Palace has confirmed US President Barack Obama will come to the UK on a state visit in May. It is the first state visit by a US president since that of President George W Bush and his wife, Laura, in 2003. President Obama came to the UK for the G20 summit...

BBC News Feb 17 China has warned the US not to use calls for internet freedom as an excuse to meddle in other countries' affairs. The foreign ministry comments came after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced an initiative to help dissidents around the world get past government...

AP Feb 16 1.40pm MADISON, Wis. – Thousands of people descended on the Wisconsin state Capitol again Wednesday to protest a bill that would strip most public employees of their collective bargaining rights, but Gov. Scott Walker insisted he has the votes to pass the measure. On the second...

BBC News Feb 15 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed her firm support for the thousands of opposition supporters who protested in Iran's capital on Monday. Mrs Clinton said they deserved to have "the same rights that they saw being played out in Egypt" and that Iran had to...

Telegraph Feb 13 Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary who sent American forces to war alongside British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, has criticised President Barack Obama for undermining the relationship between the two close allies "My impression is that the Obama...

Express Feb 13 Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has hired a long-standing Republican political strategist as chief of staff of her political action committee. The hiring of Michael Glassner fuelled fresh speculation about her possible intent to run for president in 2012. Mrs Palin...