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
No death 'miracle'
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.
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.
US Senate, House still at odds
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.
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.
US 'almost out time' on debt deal
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.
Obama's poll number slips greatly
2011-07-29 09:03:15
The Pew poll released Thursday showed 41 percent of registered voters would like to see Obama re-elected while 40 percent prefer a Republican to win the race.
US, DPRK end 'business-like' talks
2011-07-29 09:00:55
Kim said after landing in New York Tuesday that he was " optimistic" the six-party talks could resume and that relations with the US might improve.
US divide 'not easy' to bridge
2011-07-29 08:01:04
David Beers says he sees a "political divide" in the United States that won't be any easier to bridge with time.