The US House of Representatives has easily approved a bipartisan measure requiring politicians and staff to take annual anti-harassment training.

Michigan's presidential recount has been thrown into doubt after a state appeals court said the Green Party candidate's poor showing disqualified her from seeking a second look at the votes.

US researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th Century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after travelling to Pennsylvania to build a railroad.

Nearly a million people were without electricity on America’s east coast tonight as hurricane Isabel slammed ashore.

BRITAIN is to award US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan an honorary knighthood, the UK Treasury has said.