Lack of action on the climate change bill bogged down in the U.S. Senate will not stop Washington from seeking a framework to curb carbon emissions at next month's summit in Copenhagen, experts say.

What starts as a cleverly devised scheme may backfire.

Pakistan's nuclear installations are so well guarded that Islamist militants behind a wave of violence in the country's heartland would find it very hard to storm them and steal material for a nuclear bomb, analysts say.

President Obama was right to warn on Friday, in the aftermath of the horrific Fort Hood, Texas, slayings, “against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”

I've been deployed to Iraq for the past four months, and I've figured out ways to cope with the stress that comes from being thousands of miles away from my family.

One of the working rules of pounding out a readable newspaper column is to focus squarely on a single topic, and to stick to it. Every now and again, however, I find it devilishly hard to follow rules.

It's kind of heavy, isn't it? Those are the first words people seem to utter when they heft a Droid smart phone. And the answer is, yeah, it is — maybe because so much is packed into it.

The United States is likely to bear the brunt of the blame among recession-hit developed nations for an expected six- to 12-month delay to a new global climate deal hoped for December in Copenhagen.

The jump in U.S. unemployment above 10 percent for the first time since 1983 will pressure President Barack Obama to find additional stimulus to keep a fragile economic recovery on track, analysts say.

U.S. President Barack Obama will be seeking China's backing over North Korea and Iran when he visits this month, but Beijing appears increasingly assertive about what Western pressure it accepts or rejects.