President Barack Obama tells PM Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington would 'reassess' its options on US-Israel relations and Middle East diplomacy after the Israeli PM took position against Palestinian statehood during his re-election campaign, according to a White House official

US President Barack Obama has tells the Iranian people that a deal to transform the relationship between the two countries could be within reach.

The US Secret Service says it is conducting further tests on an envelope posted to the White House which may contain cyanide

China has become the world's third largest exporter of arms after the US and Russia, according to a new report

US tycoon Robert Durst is arrested on a murder charge ahead of the finale of a TV show investigating the murder of Susan Berman

Facebook provides the public with more information about what material is banned on the social network

Sierra Leone's Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana is seeking political asylum at the US embassy in the capital after soldiers surrounded his house

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of terrorism for ordering arrest of a judge when he was in power in 2012

After federal report alleged widespread racial bias in his department, the police chief of Ferguson, Missouri agrees to resign

Widow of a blogger who was hacked to death in Bangladesh says she will continue to speak out on the causes of secularism and science

Lawmakers passes a bill that would make Utah the only state to allow firing squads for carrying out a death penalty if there is a shortage of execution drugs

The son of Suriname's president is sentenced on Tuesday to 16-1/4 years in prison, after pleading guilty last August to US charges that he tried to offer a home base to the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah

US-led coalition air strike in Syria hits an oil refinery run by the Islamic State militant group killing 30 people

US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says, a democracy can only achieve its full potential with ample and safe space for free expression, opposition voices, and political dialogue.

An Ohio man claiming sympathy with Islamic State militants and charged with plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol says he would have shot President Barack Obama in the head

Men tend to be more narcissistic than women and as a result are more likely to exploit others, a US study said after analyzing three decades of data from more than 475,000 people.

Federal Bureau of Investigation is likely to come to Dhaka later this week to help with the investigations of murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy, according to police

Iran should agree to a decade-long freeze on its nuclear activity if deal is to be finally reached, Obama says

US police shot and killed a homeless man after an altercation in downtown Los Angeles.

North Korea fires two short-range missiles into the sea as US-South Korea military exercises get under way