United States

• Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 04:56 UTC

  Obama promises to revamp US foreign policy; helping poor countries is “national interest”

  

  President Barack Obama has told the UN a revamped US foreign aid policy will help lift nations out of poverty by focusing on good governance and encouraging trade and investment.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 02:01 UTC

  Head of the US 700 billion USD bail-out program steps down

  

  The US Treasury Department official in charge of overseeing the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp) is stepping down. Herb Allison said that he was resigning now that the US bail-out programme was winding down.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:35 UTC

  Fed anticipates modest US growth and is prepared to provide further support

  

  Admitting that employment and output recovery has slowed down in recent months, the US Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that it is prepared to provide additional accommodation if needed to support the economic recovery and to return inflation, over time, to levels consistent with its mandate.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 03:12 UTC

  Stowaway owl in the world’s largest cruise vessel returned to its habitat

  

  Florida State wildlife officials were called to the world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, to deal with a little stowaway – a burrowing owl.

• Tuesday, September 21st 2010 - 02:27 UTC

  The US “Great Recession” officially ended June 2009, says top think-tank

  

  The United States recession lasted 18 months and was the most prolonged since World War II, a report has concluded. The National Bureau of Economic Research said the recovery began in June 2009, with recession having begun in 2007.

• Monday, September 20th 2010 - 23:25 UTC

  US high unemployment rates “will persist” for another two years, says OECD

  

  Recovery in the United States is under way but at such a moderate pace that painfully high unemployment rates will persist for some time, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Monday

• Thursday, September 16th 2010 - 22:57 UTC

  Poverty rate and number of millionaires in the US soaring

  

  The poverty rate in the United States rose for the third straight year, reading 14.3% in 2009 (one in seven), up from 13.2% a year earlier. More than 43 million people are living in poverty and almost 51 million have no health insurance coverage.

• Friday, September 10th 2010 - 03:27 UTC

  New York Times going out of print “sometime in the future”

  

  Chairman and publisher of the New York Times Arthur Sulzberger delivered a speech within the framework of a newsroom gathering summit in London and tackled the rumours of the newspaper going out of print by 2015.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 01:51 UTC

  US “run out of bullets” to stimulate the economy, says Roubini

  

  Influential market commentator and New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini believes the US has ‘run out of bullets’ in its efforts to stimulate the economy and expects it to drag the global economy back into recession.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 03:14 UTC

  New York skyscrapers “lights-out” project to protect migratory

  

  A growing number of New York sky-scrapers are switching off their lights to help reduce the number of birds hitting the high-rise buildings. The “lights out” project - organised by NYC Audubon - runs until 1 November, when migratory birds are expected to have completed their autumn migrations.