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The Obama administration has communicated to the Indian government that it believes that India?s credentials to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are ?unimpeachable.?

America's top envoy to the United Nations said that Non-Aligned Movement and other cold-war era groupings are "outdated and irrelevant" and they do not serve the interests of their member countries.

Washington, Sept. 19 -- A suspect in an alleged terrorist plot in New York has told investigators he has ties to Al-Qaeda and could plead guilty, US media quoted unnamed sources as saying on Friday.

US ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer on Thursday said his country was taking former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's admission that US military aid meant for the war on terror was diverted for strengthening defences against India "very seriously".

Washington, Sept. 16 -- US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a vaccine designed to protect against the swine flu and hopes to make it available within a month.

Washington, Sept. 16 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested the US is prepared to engage in direct talks with North Korea to encourage the communist country to rejoin negotiations over its nuclear programme.

That Saturday morning, it was Anand?s turn to fetch baby from her music class down the road. As usual, at quarter past 11, I was ready with hot chocolate in a thermos flask, a sipper, car keys and trying to nudge Anand out of the house. ?It?s getting late, Anand,? I said, bugged with him for not getting off the phone.

US Open officials admitted partial defeat on a day of demoralizing rain, with women's semi-finals cancelled and the conclusion of the interrupted men's quarter-finals between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Gonzalez in danger from the weather.

President Barack Obama today led Americans in remembering the nearly 3,000 people perished in the world's deadliest terror strike by Al-Qaida eight years ago, saying the US will "never falter" in struggle against the terrorist organisation.

The students filed into their social studies class just after lunch and slumped into desks where they had learned about the Civil War, Lewis and Clark, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

US President Barack Obama has said given a chance he would like to have dinner with Mahatma Gandhi, whom he considers a real hero.

Barack Obama will on Wednesday tell the US schoolchildren to work hard and fulfil their responsibilities to themselves and their country, in a speech criticised in advance for being too political and prompting conservative calls for parents and schools to boycott the address.

Wajahat Ali, a 28-year-old lawyer and playwright, is busy sending out e-mails to people, urging them to buy tickets for a play that's close to his heart, not just because he has written it but also, and perhaps more importantly, because, as a Pakistani American Muslim, it is an opportunity for him "to showcase White America what it is to be a Pakistani American Muslim".

Let's first get the facts right. Bankruptcy does not hit only banks, but can effect just about any business. US President Barack Obama created a big furore in February when he said the crushing cost of US healthcare causes a bankruptcy every 30 seconds. He meant individuals or families who are equally, often more, susceptible to bankruptcies.

The long tussle between mining giant Grupo Mexico and Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd to buy bankrupt US copper miner Asarco could culminate in a major setback for Sterlite.

It was a humble filing cabinet that came to author L Frank Baum's rescue. Legend has it that having already settled for 'wizard' as part of his title for a book about a young girl from Kansas who is transported to an enchanted land by a cyclone, Baum's eyes strayed to a filing cabinet marked O-Z. The rest, as they say, is history.

Put a gecko on a level piece of glass and it might slip all over the place. Tilt that glass about 10 degrees and it will stay in place. This is because the gecko's grip is triggered by gravity, a recent discovery made by scientists at the University of Calgary and Clemson University in South Carolina and published in Proceedings B, a biological research journal.

The 9/11 plotters are not only alive but planning fresh attacks, a top US military general said. "The people behind that deadly day are still at it. They live and plan and train in safe havens along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border," Navy admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said.

Barack Hussein Obama took oath as the 44th president of the United States of America at a detailed ceremony at Washington on Tuesday. Before Obama, Joe Biden took the oath as Vice President.