Aide in US State dinner gaffe to step down

White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, a close personal friend of US First Lady Michelle Obama and one of President Barack Obama's first appointees, will step down in March to pursue new......

Obama fumes over gatecrashers

Describing the gatecrashing by a socialite couple into his first state dinner as a 'screwup', an angry US President Barack Obama has vowed that no more uninvited guests will be getting into the......

Salahis to face penalty if they don't testify

A Congressional committee has moved ahead with the process to issue subpoenas for Tareq and Michele Salahi, after the Virginia refused to turn up for testimony before the House Committee on......

Obama not facing higher threat than Bush, Clinton

US President Barack Obama faces the same level of threat as that of his two predecessors, George W Bush and Bill Clinton, and not any higher, a senior Secret Service official has said. "The threats......

Swiss Open: Another early exit for struggling Federer

Top seed Roger Federer suffered a shock 6-3, 6-4 defeat by Germany's Daniel Brands in his opening match at his home Swiss Open on Thursday - the latest setback for the former world number one.The......