Former US vice president Dick Cheney and former American secretary of state Henry Kissinger are expected to attend Margaret Thatcher's funeral on Wedn...

The first week of January is usually a quiet time for news. But 2012 is different - we have seen the teaching union threatening strikes, Tea Party fav...

Michele Bachmann has quit the race to become the Republican party's candidate for president. The tea-party candidate finished a disappointing sixth...

For Chris Huhne and Lib Dem party activists, associating their coalition partners with the much despised American right is just about the worst slur in the liberal book.

Ok, so Barack Obama may not be achieving the great things predicted of him in the White House, but let us get one thing clear: Mr Obama is - by a country mile - preferable to anything the Republican's have to offer

Observers of the American economic crisis might characterize Republicans' refusal to raise the nation's debt ceiling as mere brinkmanship orchestrated to undermine President Barack Obama's leadership.

A Quinnipiac University poll released last week revealed that Michele Bachmann had consolidated her position as the second place candidate behind Mitt...