Comic Dave McSavage is turning his gaze on the big questions, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Leading Republican senator John McCain has urged the United States to launch airstrikes against Syrian president Bashar Assad's regime to force him out of power.

Mitt Romney convincingly won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary last night, a major step toward cementing his position as the party's choice to run against President Barack Obama in November.

YOU might call it the cognitive divide — the split between an evidence-based worldview and one that is rooted in faith or ideology — and it is one of the most important fault lines in the United States today.

US Senator John McCain is travelling to Libya to meet rebel forces.

LIKE many American presidents before him, Barack Obama never knowingly plays down his Irish roots.

The US is likely to average 95,000 more jobs each month this year while personal savings will remain high as credit remains tight, according to a White House report released today.

WHO will ever forget January 20, 2009? In America and around the world, it was truly a great day. It shouldn’t have mattered but for someone of colour to assume leadership of what we used to call the “free world” counted for quite a lot.

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has incurred the wrath of a US politician - after tricking the congressman into appearing in his new movie 'Bruno'.

'The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening has defended a controversial storyline in the comedy cartoon which sees Homer Simpson accuse his Muslim neighbours of terrorism.

A senator who would be America’s first black president if elected will formally announce his White House candidacy today in the state capital where he began his political career only 10 years ago.

President George Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq ran into a huge wall of criticism from the Democrat-controlled Congress as administration officials drew confrontational, sometimes mocking, challenges from all sides.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush headed west yesterday to stump for Republican candidates insisting that the Republicans will maintain control of both the Senate and House in next week’s elections.

A leading US senator today urged the Democratic Unionists to end their opposition to sharing political power with Sinn Féin.

President Vladimir Putin said today that he will not seek a third term in 2008, but vowed not to allow “destabilisation” in Russia in the weeks following the election, leaving the door open for drastic action in the event of a crisis.

Russian Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov today became the first prominent politician to throw his hat in the ring for the 2008 presidential election, a poll in which President Vladimir Putin is constitutionally barred from running.

Infighting among top political leaders, rattled by popular uprisings in three ex-Soviet republics, may cause a rift that puts Russia at risk of breaking up, President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff warned.