US mathematician John Nash, whose life story was turned into the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, dies in a car crash

The United Nations and the United States condemns a mortar attack on the Russian embassy in Damascus that did not, however, cause any known injuries.

"Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account."

Nine people were killed and 18 were injured on Sunday when a simmering feud among rival biker gangs boiled over at a sports bar in Waco, Texas, leading to a gun battle in the parking lot, police said.

President Barack Obama plans to put in place new restrictions on the use of military equipment by police departments, following unrest in US cities over the deaths of black men at the hands of police officers, the White House said yesterday.

A world-renowned extreme athlete died along with another man during a stunt at the Yosemite National Park in California, US media said Sunday.

The news site Vox, reports an analysis by an undercover agent who explains dynamics of biker gangs and its raising trend in the US.

Blues legend B B King, whose crisp but powerful guitar licks made him among the instrument's greatest masters and a towering influence over generations of musicians, has died at 89.

President Barack Obama will seek to convince Gulf allies including Saudi Arabia yesterday that the United States is committed to their

The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would end spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone data, setting up a potential showdown with the US Senate over the program, which expires on June 1.

A passenger train derails in Philadelphia, killing at least six people and injuring more than 140 others, officials in the US city say.

The United Nations will on Monday review the US rights record, with police brutality and racism, mass surveillance and the legacy of

Police in Colombia say they have recovered a signed first edition copy of the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The Ebola virus has been detected in the eye of a US doctor who had already recovered from the illness.

An eight-year-old boy has been smuggled to Spain from Morocco inside a suitcase, Spanish police say.

Police in Mexico rescues more than 100 migrants kidnapped by a human trafficking gang near the capital.

A south Florida man is suing a hospital for emotional distress, saying his leg was amputated and thrown in the garbage with his name tag still on it.

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad declares a state of emergency due to a rapidly expanding avian flu outbreak, saying the entire state was at risk from the spread of the disease.

Baltimore's top prosecutor says she plans to file criminal charges against six officers in the case of Freddie Gray who died in police custody.

A faulty app caused American Airlines to ground dozens of its jets.