Barack Obama has wished Jimmy Carter a full and speedy recovery after the former US president announced that he was battling cancer.

Talk about nine lives eh?

* Warning this article contains graphic pictures and video of the cat’s injuries.

Americans don’t tend to do anything by halves, and 2013 New Orleans Rose Molly Molloy Gambel and her new husband Kyle Catlett are no exception.

GERMANY: An American exchange student who got stuck in a giant vagina sculpture was freed by firemen in southwestern Germany.

USA: US special operations forces may be a few years away from donning a similar suit to the film character Iron Man, one that can monitor the user’s vital signs, give them real-time battlefield information and be bulletproof from head to toe-

USA: Teenager Brian Genest’s attempt to take a selfie with a squirrel didn’t quite go to plan.

Despite a mid-round mishap Darren Clarke has put his new slimmed-down frame into contention to end a more than two-year winless drought at the Valspar Championship in Tampa, Florida.

On Saturday photographer Tim Telford snapped the heart stopping moment when a small aeroplane crashed into a landing skydiver near Tampa, Florida.

The perception that male ice skaters are gay — and the hostility behind it — is the sport’s dirty little secret, writes Abigail Jones

Authorities have arrested a third senior US Navy officer in connection with a massive bribery scheme in Asia involving prostitutes and luxury travel.

The greatest woman-beats-man match in tennis history could have been an elaborate mob fraud, according to a new report from ESPN.

Hulk Hogan rushed to hospital after burning his hand yesterday.

Rihanna cancelled her shows in Texas after two "days from Hell".

A man is missing after a large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house near Tampa, Florida.

The top US commander in Afghanistan has been cleared of sending inappropriate emails to a woman linked to the sex scandal that forced David Petraeus to quit as CIA director.

Retired US General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78.

A powerful winter storm blamed for 15 deaths in other parts of the US is bringing rain to southern New England and snow further north, but the region has been largely spared the pounding that other states took.

Members of the US Congress are demanding more details about the FBI investigation that unmasked an extramarital affair between ex-CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer.

President Barack Obama squeaked out a fundraising victory over Mitt Romney in August as the candidates gear up for the final stretch of their campaign.

Clint Eastwood has broken his silence on his infamous speech at the Republican National Convention, saying President Barack Obama is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people”.

Democrats launched President Barack Obama on his uncertain bid for re-election as they opened their national convention.

The US Democrat convention will get underway tonight with the aim of selling Barack Obama as the wise and humane alternative to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney.

In the US, hundreds of people have marched through Charlotte's central business district ahead of the Democratic National Convention.

US President Barack Obama last night ampooned the Republican National Convention as better suited to an era of black-and-white television as he declared that Mitt Romney “did not offer a single new idea” to fix the economy.

A fired-up Barack Obama has lampooned his Republican rivals, saying they had taken the country backwards and were better-suited to the black-and-white TV era, as he began touring battleground states in the run-up to the Democratic National Convention.

HURRICANE Isaac had an elemental impact on the Republican National Convention last week. The ‘Grand Old Party’ (GOP) was gathered in Tampa, Florida, to select Mitt Romney as presidential candidate.

Actor and film director Clint Eastwood today earned plenty of bad reviews for his latest performance – a bizarre, rambling endorsement of Mitt Romney.

A black camerawoman who works for CNN spoke today of a race-hate attack at the Republican National Convention by two people who hurled peanuts at her and said: “This is what we feed animals.”

Barack Obama has failed to deliver on his promise of hope and change and it is time for new leadership in the White House, Mitt Romney told America today, in the most critical speech in his presidential campaign.

Paul Ryan, a hero to conservatives and lightning rod for Democrats, accepted the Republican nomination as Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential running mate, saying the moment for President Barack Obama’s Democrats “came and went”.

Paul Ryan, a hero to conservatives and lightning rod for Democrats, accepted the Republican nomination as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate today, saying the moment for President Barack Obama's Democrats "came and went".

Hurricane Isaac sidestepped New Orleans, sending the worst of its howling wind and heavy rain into a cluster of rural fishing villages with few defences against the slow-moving storm that could bring days of unending rain.

Tropical Storm Isaac continued to lash New Orleans with heavy rain today despite being downgraded, as residents in cars and homes were stranded exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

More than 500,000 people have lost power as Hurricane Isaac moves through south-east Louisiana, bringing torrential rain and flooding.

Hurricane Isaac has lashed the Louisiana coast and is heading for a shuttered New Orleans, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds.

Hurricane Isaac made landfall in south-east Louisiana today, with winds of nearly 80mph.

Republicans bestowed their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney, turning to the former Massachusetts governor and multi-millionaire businessman to drive Barack Obama from the White House and usher in a new era of small-government conservatism.

The storm-shortened Republican National Convention which begins in earnest today will be a three-day coronation of Mitt Romney as the party’s rival to President Barack Obama.

The centre of Tropical Storm Isaac’s projected path is heading directly for New Orleans and could make landfall as early as tonight, nearly seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

Tropical Storm Isaac churned across the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, disrupting US offshore energy production and threatening to hit Louisiana on the anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

A tropical storm threatening to grow into a hurricane is heading towards America’s Gulf Coast.

Republican Mitt Romney’s selection of Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate has not altered the race against President Barack Obama, and the campaign remains very close with less than three months to go, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows.

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke aggressively yesterday about protecting Israel from Iranian nuclear threats and suggested that he was open to breaking with US policy dating to 1967 by moving the United States embassy to Jerusalem if the Israelis asked.