Google has filed a patent for toys that pay attention to who is in a room and can interact with other media devices.

The gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says.

Laden was fixated on attacking US targets and pressured al Qaeda groups to heal local rivalries and focus on that cause,according to documents the US says were seized in his hideout in Pakistan.

An Afghan judge sentences 11 police on Tuesday to one year in jail for failing to prevent the mob killing of Farkhunda in Kabul who was accused of burning a copy of the Quran.

US President Barack Obama has just launched his own Twitter feed, the White House has confirmed.

Police in the US state of Texas say nine people have been killed and at least 100 arrested after a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco.

Iran has played the extremist card to the hilt and managed to run rings around the US that continues to suffer from a joint ISIS-Al Qaeda phobia...

The concern of egotistical professionals is confined to criticism and cynicism, instead of attempting to improve the image of their country.

Two police officers are shot dead in Mississippi and the shooter fled the area in a police vehicle, local television station WDAM reports.

The US government is offering rewards totalling $20m (£13m) for information on what it says are four leaders of the Islamic State (IS) militant group.

By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it, but it’s just won the 2015 Desal Prize - a competition run by USAID to encourage better solutions to water shortages in developing countries, reports sciencealert.com.

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.

The fourth US-Bangladesh Partnership Dialogue begins in Dhaka with the meeting of its working group.

For two months an unusual bank robber has been captivated the US. She is a woman, short, young and well-dressed, and she held up a string of banks in quick succession. The Bombshell Bandit told Jeff Maysh her story.

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow to attend a dialogue with high government officials.

US expresses disappointment over 'widespread, first-hand, and credible reports of vote-rigging, intimidation and violence that have occurred at polling stations today, and the BNP’s decision to boycott the city corporation polls'.

The US city of Baltimore declares a state of emergency amid violent protests over the death of a black man fatally injured in police custody.

United States reiterates its stand against violence surrounding the city corporation elections to Dhaka and Chittagong.

Google GOOGL +2.15% appears to be an indomitable force. DARPA’s Memex search technologies have garnered much interest due to their initial mainstream application: to uncover human trafficking operations taking place on the “dark web”.

A car bombing claimed by Islamic State kills three people on Friday outside the US consulate in Erbil, in a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region.