A PHRASE has entered the political bloodstream which you are going to be hearing a lot of in the next little while: “one-term presidency”.

US Republicans are trying for a third straight day to pass a Bill on raising the country's borrowing authority and avert a potentially devastating government default.

The Republican Party chose its first black national chairman, just shy of three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first black president.

IT is probably a bit off-base to focus on the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter or to wonder what sort of parental care her own baby gets.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper won a victory today in Canada’s election, ending 13 years of Liberal rule, pushing the country rightward on social and economic issues and bolstering ties with the US.

A US congressional committee has drafted a bill that threatens to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the United Nations unless the world body launches wide-ranging reforms, possibly setting the stage for a funding battle like the one that plunged the UN into financial crisis a decade ago.

A US congressional committee has drafted a Bill that threatens to withhold tens of millions of pounds from the United Nations unless the world body launches wide-ranging reforms, possibly setting the stage for a funding battle like the one that plunged the UN into financial crisis a decade ago.