LOS ANGELES - Candice Glover, a soul singer from rural South Carolina, was named “American Idol”, becoming the first female singer to win the television singing competition since 2007.Glover, 23, defeated country singer Kree Harrison in the popular vote with her powerful voice in what ...

LOS ANGELES : A US soldier convicted of killing five of his colleagues in Iraq in May 2009 was sentenced to life behind bars Thursday and dishonorably discharged. Army Sergeant John Russell was convicted earlier this week over the murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

NEW YORK: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez could be American Idol‘s newest judges! Producers have been the teen stars at the top of their most wanted list because they’re desperate to boost ratings! “It’s been a lackluster season for Idol and everyone involved with the show is ...

MANAGUA: Police inNicaraguaon Monday announced the arrest of Eric Justin Toth, an American on the FBI’s most wanted list, who is sought on child pornography charges. Toth, a former schoolteacher and camp counselor was taken into custody in the northern city ofEstelion Saturday, police said. ...

LONDON A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis’s “American Psycho”, the disturbing tale of a Wall Street banker turned sadistic serial killer, will have its world premiere in London in December.A spokesman for London’s Almeida Theatre said on Friday that the show would open on ...

At the end of the Cold War and following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US emerged as the sole superpower. Because of its enormous economic and military power, the US loomed large like a colossus on the global geopolitical scene. No other country in the world was even close to it in terms of ...

NUEVO LAREDO - A US citizen on Wednesday married her Mexican fiance on a raft on the river border between their two countries, a unique ceremony designed to meet US immigration requirements. Stephanie Guerra, 26, and Ruben Alfonso Fierro, 27, defied the swirling currents of the Rio Grande and ...

WASHINGTON - The US Senate voted Thursday to debate the most ambitious gun safety legislation in nearly two decades, after a bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed on expanding background checks for firearm sales.With relatives of the 20 children killed in the Newtown massacre watching from the ...

16-YEAR-old Timothy Doner from New York City has taught himself to speak 23 languages from Hebrew and Arabic to Swahili and Chinese.Timothy Doner has taught himself a host of languages, starting with Hebrew, which he learnt so he could keep up with his favourite Israeli dance music.“Some of ...

DANYA GREENFIELD & DAVID J KRAMER - Most news out of the Middle East these days is dispiriting: The devastating civil war in Syria, the autocratic nature of Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, continued militia activity in Libya, a coalition collapse in Tunisia. Less discussed, and surprisingly ...

WASHINGTON - About 100 US troops have been deployed to the West African country of Niger to set up a drone base to spy on militants battling French troops in neighbouring Mali.Announcing the deployment, President Barack Obama said in a letter to Congress released that about 40 US service members ...

CHICAGO  - David Coleman Headley, who helped plot the devastating 2008 Mumbai attacks before agreeing to become an informer, was sentenced by a US judge on Thursday to 35 years in prison.Headley, 52, struck a deal to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty to scoping out Mumbai on behalf of ...

UNITED NATIONS - In the aftermath of news that 35 Pakistanis have been killed so far this year by unmanned US drones Congressman Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to be elected to the House of Representatives, Monday called on Congress to play a role in reforming existing policy governing the ...

Happy days are here again for the makers and sellers of guns and ammunition, and why not? There’s nothing like a good school massacre to really move those Mausers off the shelves. The timing of the Newtown, Connecticut, atrocity, moreover, couldn’t have been better, coming as it did ...

NEW YORK (TIP) - The rights of Muslims to practice Islam and to live safely within US have been gravely compromised by a striking increase in Islamophobia - orchestrated by the appalling rhetoric of religious bigots, racists and hatemongers, the Islamic Post reported. The Americans Muslims took a ...

GEORGIA (Reuters) - A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who was born when William McKinley was president of the United States and had ranked as the oldest known living American for just over two weeks, has died, her daughter said on Saturday.Mamie Rearden died on Wednesday at a hospital in Augusta, ...

Dr ELIAS AKLEH - Hypocrisy is the most prominent characteristic of the successive American administrations. The observer could easily detect this hypocrisy when it comes to administration’s policies towards the Middle Eastern countries generally and towards the Palestinians specifically. One ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - An American citizen has been detained by the communist authorities in North Korea, a country that has no diplomatic ties with the US, an official said. “We’re obviously aware of these reports that a US citizen has been detained in North Korea. We obviously have no ...

SANCHITA B SAXENAThe fire that killed 112 workers at a garment factory in the suburbs of Bangladesh’s capital last month was a stark reminder of the human costs of producing and consuming cheap clothes. While American officials have condemned poor safety conditions at the factory and have ...

There is surprising news that there is an increase in mental illness in US soldiers returning from Afghanistan. Parallels can be drawn to the Hollywood flick, The American Psycho, who hacks friendly people around him with axe and a chain saw. The number of suicides is also rising. The latest report ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ - A US soldier killed his pregnant wife after a Thanksgiving Day argument and dumped her body at a landfill near the Mexican border city, then killed himself. Cristal Nevares, 20, was two months pregnant, the Mexican office of the prosecutor for gender crimes said. Her husband Johnny ...

WASHINGTON - An influential American newspaper Friday criticised the US’ increasing reliance on drone strikes against suspected terrorists, and called for a comprehensive effort, including economic development in Pakistan and Afghanistan, to defeat terrorism."The Obama administration’s ...

WASHINGTON – In some of his most blunt remarks to date, US President Barack Obama said on Monday that Osama bin Laden would have escaped if the United States had sought Pakistan’s permission ahead of the raid.During the third and final debate ahead of presidential election on November ...

LONDON   - The inaugural American Grand Prix scheduled to take place at New Jersey next June has been postponed for a year, according to local news reports confirmed by Bernie Ecclestone. The race was due to take place on June 16, but is understood to be re-scheduled for 2014, according to a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A US Navy Aegis cruiser collided with a nuclear-powered submarine during exercises off the East Cost on Saturday, collapsing the sonar dome on the cruiser and possibly causing other damage, but no injuries, US Navy officials said.The collision between the USS San Jacinto and ...

America’s image and influence has taken more of a beating within the Middle East, credit goes to the anti-Islam film. The movie, which appeared on YouTube has yet to be taken down. Meanwhile, both Iran and Israel are becoming increasing defiant of America’s calls for peace. Retired ...

US President Barack Obama offered a warm personal tribute to Hillary Clinton's close aide Huma Abedin, who some conservative Republicans claim has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.Obama used the occasion of a dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramazan to pour praise on his "good friend" ...

These companies are becoming an unintentional fifth column in Kurdistan’s march toward economic autonomy. On July 31, France’s Total became the third big oil company to break with Baghdad by signing an unsanctioned oil deal with Kurdistan. Baghdad, intent on full mastery over the ...

Commenting over US Ambassador Cameron Munter’s remarks that PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif and PTI Chairman Imran Khan are pro-American, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman on Wednesday said he was not against any nation instead he was an opponent of US policies. “You should be asking this ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A singer who competed on the second season of “American Idol,” filed a libel lawsuit on Thursday against MTV Networks for more than $40 million, claiming he was unfairly ridiculed by one of its news reporters. The lawsuit claims that after Corey Clark was ...