The United States and Cuba are trying to eliminate obstacles to normal ties as the highest-level US delegation to the communist island in three decades holds a second day of talks with Cuban officials.

The Obama administration is considering a plan that would shield possibly around 5m illegal immigrants from deportation as part of a broad set of executive actions that could be announced as early as next week, sources say.

New rules will come into effect in the United States today for people travelling from west African nations hit hardest by Ebola.

The director of the US Secret Service has resigned in the face of revelations of security breaches and an erosion of confidence over the safety of president Barack Obama and his family.

Secret Service director Julia Pierson resigned yesterday in the face of multiple revelations about bumbling in her agency and rapidly eroding confidence that the president and his family were being kept safe.

The director of the US Secret Service has quit following a number of security lapses at the White House.

Tightened security across UK airports will not be a "one-off temporary thing" Nick Clegg has warned, and Britain should be prepared for further measures.

Airport security is being increased at European airports after the United States called for heightened precautions amid reports two terror networks are working together on a bomb that could evade existing measures.

IN the final scene of Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s heart-stopping thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Maya, a CIA operative and the movie’s heroine, is strapped into a seat on a military transport plane staring into the middle distance, looking depleted.

The publisher of an insider account of the US Navy SEAL raid that killed terror mastermind Osama bin Laden said it would begin public sales next week despite a Pentagon warning of possible legal action against the author and others.

The US Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being flown to a state-of-the-art prison where Pentagon officials said more extensive mental, emotional and physical health care will be available.

The US army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being moved from a Marine jail south of Washington to a state-of-the-art facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where Pentagon officials said more extensive metal, emotional and physical healthcare will be available.