Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has been admitted to the hospital after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease.

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack Obama to "do what it takes to win".

US Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on State charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

US Vice President Dick Cheney said today that Russia's actions in the conflict with Georgia are an "affront to civilised standards" and "completely unacceptable".

Rallying troops after an overnight stay at an air base, US Vice President Dick Cheney said today that as long as freedom is suppressed in the Middle East, the region will remain a place of “stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export.”

One of al-Qaida’s top commanders in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed in Pakistan according to a website used by militant groups.

US Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, experienced an irregular heartbeat today and will be evaluated at a Washington hospital.

US Vice President Dick Cheney has admitted he was wrong when he said the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes" more than two years ago.

US Vice President Dick Cheney had minor surgery today to receive a new battery for an implanted device that monitors his heart rhythms.

Lawyers for Lewis "Scooter" Libby are preparing a last-ditch effort to delay the former US White House aide's two-and-a-half-year prison sentence.

FORMER White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted yesterday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity to reporters.

US Vice President Dick Cheney has a blood clot in his left leg, tests revealed today.

Pakistan today rejected the US intelligence chief’s claims that Osama bin Laden and his deputy are hiding in the country, and that al-Qaida is setting up camps near the border with Afghanistan.

An explosion outside the main US military base in Afghanistan killed at least two people and wounded 12 during a visit by US Vice President Dick Cheney.

US Vice President Dick Cheney met with Japan’s emperor today and later flew to a US aircraft carrier where he told thousands of cheering American troops the US would not relent in the war on terror.

US Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter has spoken out for the first time in defence of her decision to have a baby with her long-term partner.

Iraqi state television today reported that US Vice President Dick Cheney was in Baghdad, but US officials said Cheney was not in the capital.

US Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide told prosecutors President George Bush authorised the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case.

THE lawyer shot by US Vice President Dick Cheney during a hunting trip was discharged from a hospital yesterday, saying he was sorry for the trouble his hunting companion had faced.

The lawyer shot by US Vice President Dick Cheney during a hunting trip was discharged from a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, today and told reporters he was sorry for all the trouble Cheney had faced over the past week.

The man shot by US Vice President Dick Cheney experienced a heart irregularity after birdshot moved into his heart and was moved back to the intensive care unit for further treatment this morning.

A 78-YEAR-OLD hunting companion of US Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering yesterday after Mr Cheney accidentally shot him during a weekend quail hunting trip, a hospital official said.

AFGHANISTAN inaugurated its first popularly elected parliament in more than three decades yesterday, a major step toward democracy following the ousting of the hardline Taliban.

A suicide car bomb exploded outside a children’s hospital in western Baghdad today, killing at least two people and wounding 11 including seven policemen.

SUSANNE Osthoff, the German woman taken hostage in Iraq, was freed last night.

US Vice President Dick Cheney is adding his voice to the chorus of Republican criticism of Democrats who have accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence to justify war against Iraq.

US Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff today pleaded not guilty in the CIA leak scandal, marking the start of what could be a long road to a trial in which Cheney and other top Bush administration officials could be summoned to testify.

It has been confirmed that US Vice President Dick Cheney made a stopover at Shannon airport last night en route from Afghanistan.

US Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a history of heart trouble, was being taken to a hospital for tests today after experiencing some shortness of breath, a White House spokesman said.

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has courted controversy by branding US President George W Bush a "non-entity" who relies on his team to make all of his decisions.

Iraqi militants shot dead an American soldier they have held hostage for nearly three months, saying he was killed because the US government did not change its policy in Iraq, Al-Jazeera television said today.

US Vice President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are on a list of potential witnesses in the case of Private Lynndie England, the US army reservist facing a court-martial for alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners, her lawyers say.

US Vice President Dick Cheney portrayed US President George W Bush and himself as champions of the second amendment to the US constitution — the right to bear arms — in a speech at the National Rifle Association’s 133rd annual convention on Saturday.

Optimism that three Japanese civilians held hostage in Iraq would be quickly released evaporated today, when Tokyo’s top government spokesman backtracked on an earlier statement and said authorities were no longer confident about their safety.

US Vice President Dick Cheney said that the Bush administration has not given up on the so far fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The “jury is still out”, he said.

US Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company may have overcharged the US Army by as much as €55.7m for petrol in Iraq, Pentagon auditors have found.

US Vice President Dick Cheney has agreed to be President George Bush’s running mate in 2004, saying past health problems will not prevent him from being on the next presidential ticket.

Iraq was waking up to a future free of Saddam Hussein today while US forces continued to tighten their grip on the capital Baghdad.

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Kofi Annan urged the United States to resist attacking Iraq, joining calls from leaders in Germany, China, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain yesterday for restraint in considering military action to topple Saddam Hussein.

LEADERS of Argentina’s military dictatorship believed Washington was willing to overlook the junta’s bloody efforts to stamp out political dissent, newly declassified US documents show.

THE US Senate has approved the most sweeping changes in corporate accountability since the Depression, creating stiff penalties and jail terms for company fraud and tightening oversight of the accounting industry.

The US Vice President Dick Cheney has claimed the chance of more al-Qaida attacks on the United States is "almost a certainty".

The chance of more al-Qaida attacks against US targets is ‘almost a certainty’, US Vice President Dick Cheney said today.

Gaffe-prone former US Vice President Dan Quayle has found a television star whose family values he can finally applaud: Ozzy Osbourne.