One little dog who encounters a robodog that's a lot bigger. The robot canine is Spot. It was created by Boston Dynamics, a company owned by Google, reports CNET.

Catholic Church abuse movie "Spotlight" is named best picture, the top award at Oscar ceremony, after an evening peppered with pointed punchlines from host Chris Rock about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that has dominated the industry.

Leonardo DiCaprio wins his long-awaited first Oscar for revenge epic "The Revenant" but journalism drama "Spotlight" took best picture in a surprising end to Hollywood's glittering awards season.

Mexico's former President Vicente Fox has compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

With its imposing splendour and sumptuous glamour, few people come away unimpressed from White House — a fitting home for a man who is master of all he surveys.

President Barack Obama yesterday presented a long-awaited roadmap to close the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying it was time to shutter a facility that betrayed US interests and values.

A man working as an Uber driver admits to the fatal weekend shootings of six people in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a police detective testifies in a case raising questions about how the car service vets its drivers.

A man arrested on suspicion of shooting dead six people in the northern US state of Michigan is an Uber driver who may have picked up fares during the killing spree.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said on Saturday he was suspending his campaign after a disappointing finish in the South

Jeb Bush drops out of the US Republican presidential race after a disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary.

Six people are shot and killed and several others wounded in Michigan, US in a series of apparently random shootings, authorities say.

A former Black Panther activist who spent a record 43 years in solitary confinement was freed from a US prison Friday after decades of

The contest for Republican and Democratic contenders to become presidential candidates in the United States has entered its third

Harper Lee, who wrote one of America's most enduring literary classics, To Kill a Mockingbird, and surprised readers 55 years later with the publication of a second book about the same characters, dies at the age of 89 on Friday.

The United States and Cuba will sign a bilateral agreement tomorrow to restore regular flights between the two countries after more than half a century, the

The United States said Friday it had approved selling up to eight Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, along with training, radar and other equipment, worth a total of $699 million.

The Zika virus may be particularly adept at entrenching itself in parts of the body that are shielded from the immune system, making it harder to fight off and possibly lengthening the timeframe in which it can be transmitted, top US experts say.

US scientists have modelled how a 1930s-like "dustbowl" drought might impact American agriculture today, and found it to be just as damaging.

Surging Republican hopeful Marco Rubio wilted under sustained attack in the latest US presidential debate, denting his stature going into tomorrow's New Hampshire primary dominated by frontrunner Donald Trump.

Twitter says it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 "for threatening or promoting terrorist acts".