Whoa, this can't be right. Guys, guys, guys - this isn't the end. It feels like the lights have just come on in the theatre just when I was settling down to my popcorn...

CIA director John Brennan is acknowledging that agency officers did "abhorrent" things to captive terror suspects, and he says he can't prove the harsh treatment made the prisoners cooperate.

The police shooting of an unarmed black man has sparked another potential flashpoint in the United States.

A billion-dollar class-action lawsuit over Apple's iPods heads to trial after nearly a decade in legal wrangling.

The Waldorf Astoria sale to a Chinese buyer is likely to spark a national security review to assess potential spying risks.

A stoic President Barack Obama attempted a steady and conciliatory tone yesterday after a rout in Wednesday's midterm elections that saw Republicans crush his party's hopes.

The coalition of young and minority voters that handed President Barack Obama both of his election victories failed to show up for the Democrats in the US midterms as Republicans celebrated their first black female member of Congress.

Tech giants like Apple keep looking for overseas tax loopholes as their foreign cash has piled up to almost absurd levels.

The unmanned Antares rocket that blew up in a spectacular fireball in the United States during a launch to the International Space Station was using two 40-year-old Soviet-made rocket engines of the same type as one that exploded during tests in May.

A New York newspaper has apologised after it referred to US President Barack Obama as a “n*****” in one of its headlines.

New forensic imaging techniques are being used to solve the mystery of the final resting place of Amelia Earhart, whose plane vanished over the Pacific in 1937.

Tim Draper has been identified as the winning bidder for a cache of 29,656 bitcoins seized from the Silk Road website and auctioned off by the US govt.

The CIA and other spy agencies are scrambling to close intelligence gaps as they seek to support possible military or covert action against ISIS.

Computer users have been warned to take urgent action to protect themselves from a cyber virus pandemic, with up to a million computers in 12 countries infected since 2011.

President Barack Obama poked fun at the press, his political rivals and his own healthcare policy, as he spoke at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

As a former leader of the free world George W Bush had significantly greater access to world leaders than other budding artists. Which is why his art is so, er, surprising.

A shirtless New Zealander who saw the Capitol Hill shooting unfold has found instant fame as the "Bro Witness".

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani scooped Barack Obama with a tweet revealing a break in the 34-year silence between leaders of the two nations.

The US administration has bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 1,429 people - far more than previous estimates- including more than 400 children.

Share traders are being replaced by maths geniuses who use supercomputers to beat the markets. But are the "quants" a force for good or evil?

South Africa's president has visited a gravely ill Nelson Mandela in the hospital and cancelled a visit to Mozambique.