President Barack Obama today followed up on the last presidential debate by accusing his Republican challenger Mitt Romney of shifting his positions, as the two candidates entered the two-week home stretch before Election Day.

American music fans still holding tickets for a cancelled 1979 show in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who can finally use them.

A diverging portrait of the US Army sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers is emerging as records and interviews show a man appreciated by friends and family who won military commendations, yet faced professional disappointment, financial trouble and brushes with the law.

Tourists fleeing Hurricane Rina crowded Cancun’s airport even as the cyclone lost some of its punch on a course for Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faced down city chiefs to hang on to its makeshift headquarters, showed its muscle with a big Times Square demonstration and found legions of activists demonstrating in solidarity across the world.

The top-ranked competitive eater in the world and reigning king of the World Bratwurst Eating Championship successfully defended his title in Cincinnati, Ohio, washing down 35 sausages in 10 minutes.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain will name the youngest and first female governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his running mate today, US media reported.

Sony Music must pay a small record company $5m (€6.9m) for failing to put the firm's logo on reissues of Meat Loaf's 'Bat out of Hell' album.

An American music producer has reportedly stunned a judge by revealing he is set to have six children this year, by six different women.

Nick Lachey is fighting off yet another report that he cheated on his wife Jessica Simpson - and this time the accusations come from one of his childhood pals.

A US soldier accused of beating an Afghan prisoner who later died was set to go to trial today, one day after a US military jury acquitted a fellow Army reservist of the same charge.

Music stars Jay-Z and R Kelly have fuelled reports they've fallen out on tour - by cancelling a further two dates.

Officials at the White House have hit back at reports they had anything to do with First Lady Laura Bush's reported snub of Sean P Diddy Combs this week.

A passenger attempting to board a flight from Paris to the United States sparked a security alert today when wires were spotted in her jacket.

President George W Bush’s deputy national security adviser became the second US official to apologise for allowing a tainted intelligence report on Iraq’s nuclear ambitions to find its way into a major speech by Bush before Congress in January.

Teenage singing star Charlotte Church appeared to put all her relationship troubles aside as she stepped out with DJ boyfriend Steven Johnson.

An Oklahoma state appeals court has ordered an indefinite halt to the execution of a Mexican national whose case drew appeals from Mexican President Vicente Fox.

A white police officer has denied charges in connection with the shooting of an unarmed black man that prompted three nights of race riots in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A white police officer whose shooting of an unarmed black man sparked three nights of devastating riots in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been charged with two offences, including negligent homicide.