US lawmakers to vote on last-minute debt deal
2011-08-02 06:20:48
US congressional leaders scrambled to line up Republican and Democratic votes on Monday for a White House House-backed deal to raise the US borrowing limit and avert an unprecedented debt default.
'Really close' to debt deal as deadline nears
2011-08-01 06:58:57
Obama and congressional leaders reached for a compromise to permit vital borrowing by the Treasury in exchange for $2 trillion in long-term spending cuts.
'Potter' finale conjures up $1 billion worldwide
2011-08-01 09:35:24
Harry Potter has joined the billion-dollar club.
Planes collide over Alaska, 4 dead
2011-08-01 06:27:34
Two single-engine float planes collided as they flew near an Alaska lake and one of them crashed and burned, killing the four people aboard
Passenger plane crashes in Guyana, no deaths
2011-07-30 23:30:45
A commercial plane with 140 passengers aboard crashed early Saturday while landing in Guyana in rainy weather, causing several injuries but no deaths, the Guyanese president said.
Senate, House at odds as default looms
2011-07-30 22:05:25
US lawmakers, facing a potentially calamitous government default in just days, held votes that highlighted their intense partisan divide.
Caribbean Airlines jet crashes in Guyana
2011-07-31 08:35:18
A packed Caribbean Airlines jet carrying 163 people crashed and broke in two on Saturday as it landed in Guyana at night.
US House rejects Reid debt ceiling plan
2011-07-31 03:46:17
The US House of Representatives Saturday voted to reject the debt ceiling plan put forward by Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid.
43 US Republican Senators oppose Reid debt plan
2011-07-31 03:44:22
Forty three Republican Senators of the United States said Saturday that they opposed the debt ceiling plan put forward by Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid.
US 'almost out time' on debt deal: Obama
2011-07-30 07:28:45
President Barack Obama warned the United States was "almost out of time" to make a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling, insisting that a compromise was within reach.
Bush explains slow reaction to 9/11 attacks
2011-07-30 07:28:45
Former US president George W. Bush says his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks was a conscious decision to project an aura of calm in a crisis.
DPRK, US resume nuclear talks
2011-07-30 07:28:45
Stephen Bosworth, the US special envoy to the DPRK, was in discussions with Kim Kye-gwan, the DPRK's vice-foreign minister, at the US Mission to the United Nations.
