Cuba's Fidel Castro signaled continued resistance to rapprochement between Washington and Havana, writing in an opinion piece yesterday that his country "has no need of gifts" from the United States.

A police officer was shot and wounded yesterday in the US Capitol complex and the gunman captured, a source citing information from the Sergeant-at-Arms office in Congress said.

Texas police accuse the estranged wife of internationally renowned pianist Vadym Kholodenko of killing the couple's two young daughters before stabbing herself.

Major US cities deployed police in large numbers, some with heavy weapons patrolling transit hubs, after around 35 people were killed in attacks on a Brussels

Donald Trump defended Sunday his campaign manager, who appeared to grab a protester at a rally for the Republican presidential frontrunner that was again marred by demonstrations and sporadic violence.

US President Barack Obama flew to Cuba yesterday to bury the hatchet in a more than half-century-long Cold War conflict, but the arrest of dozens of dissidents just as his plane took off underlined the delicacy of the mission.

Hollywood star and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie visits a makeshift camp in Greece and says the refugees were stuck in a "deteriorating humanitarian situation" and needed help.

Prosecutors have announced the first criminal conviction in connection with the 2014 hacking of Hollywood celebrities that resulted in the online release of hundreds of private nude photos.

The US has called on North Korea to immediately release an American student sentenced to 15 years' hard labour for crimes against the state.

US Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders has hit back after Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he had sent protesters to disrupt his rallies.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump refused to take responsibility yesterday for clashes that have erupted at his campaign events, saying he was not inciting violence but giving voice to the anger of his supporters.

Donald Trump trains his fire on the protesters disrupting his rallies, branding them "thugs" and extremists, as White House rivals warned the Republican's heated rhetoric was dangerously fanning tensions.

Donald Trump calls off a rally in Chicago after protests against the Republican presidential front-runner led to violent clashes.

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has attacked Donald Trump for saying that Islam hates America, in a televised debate in Miami.

A shooting at a backyard barbecue in the northeastern US state of Pennsylvania has left five people dead, and at least two suspects are

A shooting at a party in the town of Wilkinsburg in the US state of Pennsylvania has left five people dead, and at least two suspects are on the loose, local media reports.

Foreign diplomats are expressing alarm to US government officials about what they say are inflammatory and insulting public statements by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, according to senior US officials.

North Korea warns of "indiscriminate" nuclear strikes on the US and South Korea as they begin their largest ever military drills.

Nancy Reagan, the former actress who was fiercely protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hollywood career, eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt and Alzheimer's disease, dies at age 94, the Reagan library says.

The US Department of Defense invites vetted hackers to test its cybersecurity under a pilot program that is the first of its kind in the federal government.