Barack Obama will propose a budget that raises taxes on millionaires and seeks billions of dollars to create jobs.

A day after Mitt Romney regained some momentum in the Republican presidential contest, his rival Rick Santorum went on the attack.

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A Brazilian airliner made a forced landing after a passenger reportedly attacked a pilot and crew members.

A man from Uzbekistan has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill US President Barack Obama.

US President Barack Obama has backed down on a policy that would have required religious organisations to provide birth control to employees.

A television anchor who was bitten in the face by an 38.5-kilogram Argentine Mastiff during a live broadcast has been released from a hospital.

Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009.

US Marine Corps are again in damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS.

A family of three attempting their first voyage across the Pacific in a yacht were left adrift in rough seas hundreds of kilometres from land when their mast broke in high winds.

US security cameras capture the moment a stranger tried to abduct a seven-year-old girl.

A British armoured car guard suspected of driving off with a fortune worth US$1.5 million back in 1993 has been captured in rural Missouri,

An American Indian tribe is sueing some of the world's largest beer makers, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Argentina's president has accused Britain of "militarising the South Atlantic" and said she would complain to the United Nations, as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.

Of the 600 terror suspects released from Guantanamo Bay, 27 per cent reengaged in terrorist activities, a US report has found.

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A subway train has derailed near a children's playground in Santiago, Chile, smashing parked vehicles and crashing into an apartment building.

A US teenager who had described the slaying of a young neighbour girl as an "ahmazing" thrill has made an emotional apology to the girl's family.

A dog rescued by a firefighter from a freezing pond has been impounded after biting a veteran US television anchor in the face during a live morning broadcast.

Parents of four-year-old boy filmed in the snow wearing only underpants accused of cruelty.

Republican US presidential contender Rick Santorum has claimed a surge of momentum and fundraising after his shocking sweep of three nominating contests that dealt a blow to front-runner Mitt Romney.