Sony “made a mistake” in shelving a satirical film about a plot to assassinate North Korea’s leader, US president Barack Obama said, and he pledged the US would respond “in a place and manner and time that we choose” to the hacking attack on Sony that led to the withdrawal.

Report finds agency handling disasters lacks co-ordination

The mother of a woman shot dead by police after a car chase that began when she tried to breach a barrier at the White House said her daughter suffered from post-natal depression.

A woman driver was shot and killed by US police after trying to ram through a White House barricade with a young child in the car.

One of three college students arrested in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the US from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa.

Boston Marathon investigators have found a piece of circuit board they believe was part of one of the bombs.

FBI agents zeroed in on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out – with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel - but said they still did not know who did it and why.

The Boston marathon bombs were explosives packed in 6-litre pressure cookers and placed in black duffel bags, according to a source close to the investigation.

Superstorm Sandy disrupted the US presidential race as President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney both cancelled campaign events.

Investigators looking for clues to the motive behind a shooting rampage at a screening of the new Batman movie sought to enter the suspect's elaborately booby-trapped apartment today.

A US Airways jet on a flight from Paris to North Carolina has been diverted over security fears after a French passenger handed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a surgically implanted device.

A notorious Traveller criminal network which dominates a multi-million dollar global trade in stolen rhino horn is being targeted in a huge police operation in the United States.

The size of the US government’s secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States has more than doubled in the past year.

US counter-terrorism officials are pursuing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to set off a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York or Washington.

US counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

US counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

Officials have received a credible but unconfirmed terror threat concerning New York or Washington.

THE US government is warning airlines that terrorists are considering having bombs surgically implanted inside themselves.

The US government is warning airlines that terrorists are considering having bombs surgically implanted inside themselves.

Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to hit the US and his terror organisation was becoming battered and fragmented, according to his private diary and other documents recovered in the raid on his Pakistan hideout.

THE bombs used in the cargo plane terror plot were at least 50 times more powerful than would be needed to blow a hole in an aircraft fuselage, officials said yesterday.

The tip-off that foiled the airline ink bomb plot came from a leading al-Qaida militant who surrendered to Saudi Arabia, Yemeni intelligence sources said today.

The US government is changing its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travellers' nationalities.

Barack Obama said security lapses that led to a near-disaster in the Christmas Day attack on a US-bound airliner were not the fault of an individual or agency.

An airline passenger from Nigeria who said he was acting on al Qaida's instructions set off an explosive device in a failed terror attack on the plane as it was preparing to land.

Former US homeland security secretary Tom Ridge claims in a new book that he was pressured by other members of George Bush’s Cabinet to raise the US terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election.

A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began on July 4 knocked out the websites of several US government agencies - including some responsible for fighting cyber crime, it emerged today.

A Washington Metro train crashed into the rear of another during rush hour yesterday, killing at least four people and injuring scores of others as cars of one train jack-knifed into the air and fell atop the other.

US President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started selecting his inner circle by appointing existing Washington insiders to top posts.

Democratic President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to reverse or sharply modify many of the Bush administration’s policies.

IN Washington DC at the weekend, the Bush joke books piled high in the stores’ discount sections told their own story.

At least seven people died when a freeway bridge suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River in the US during rush-hour traffic jams.

Airport security officers in the US have been told to look out for terrorists practising carrying explosive components on to aircraft.

Al Qaida is stepping up its efforts to sneak terror operatives into the US and has acquired most of the capabilities it needs to strike, according to a new intelligence assessment.

America’s Homeland Security Department is breaking the law by not telling the public how personal information is used to screen international travellers, government investigators say.

A break-in targeting US State Department computers around the world happened after an employee in Asia opened a mysterious email that quietly allowed hackers inside the government’s network.

US President George Bush called Saddam Hussein's execution a milestone on Iraq's road to democracy, but warned it would not halt the bloodshed and political discord splitting the country.

A leader of the incoming Democratic Congress, business travellers and privacy advocates have expressed outrage over computerised “terror score” assessments.

US President George Bush today signed a bill authorising 700 miles of new fencing along the US-Mexico border, hoping to give Republican candidates a pre-election platform for asserting they are tough on illegal immigration.

Internet threats of “dirty bomb” attacks at NFL stadiums this weekend were a hoax, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said tonight.

The FBI is today interviewing a Milwaukee resident believed to be responsible for posting what officials think are phoney threats on a website about radiological dirty bomb attacks on National Football League stadiums this weekend.

THE EU has agreed to hand over airline passenger data to an unlimited number of US agencies in a new deal thrashed out during a nine-hour conference.

The US government is relaxing its ban against carrying liquids and gels onto airliners, instituted after a plot to bomb jets flying into the United States from the UK was foiled, an administration official said today.

An American expatriate school teacher said publicly today he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died in what he called “an accident", a stunning admission after a decade without answers in the six-year-old’s murder.