United States

Wednesday, January 13th 2010 - 08:12 UTC
US trade deficit jumps 10% and exports grow for seventh month running

The United States trade deficit shot up nearly 10% to 36.4 billion US dollars in November, hitting a 10-month high, the Department of Commerce said on Tuesday. Demand for imports is growing, as the US economy slowly gets back on its feet.
Monday, January 11th 2010 - 12:41 UTC
Budget emergency and draconian spending cuts in California

The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has unveiled deep spending cuts aimed at containing the state's 20 billion US dollars budget deficit. Spending on health, welfare, transport and the environment is to be reduced.
Saturday, January 9th 2010 - 08:08 UTC
Surprise rise in US unemployment during December

US employers unexpectedly cut 85,000 jobs in December, but the unemployment rate held steady at 10%, official figures have shown. The number of job losses was surprising, particularly after November's figures had been revised.
Wednesday, December 30th 2009 - 09:59 UTC
Special New Year with a blue moon in the Americas and partial eclipse in Asia

The blue moon has long been a subject of poetry and one of those phrases that are used without quite understanding the meaning, but its presence is a scientific marker for a rotating earth that runs by its own clock, ignoring man’s calendar.
Wednesday, December 30th 2009 - 09:52 UTC
Obama: “a systemic failure” by US intelligence which is “totally unacceptable”

A “systemic failure” by US intelligence allowed the alleged terrorist behind the Christmas Day airliner bomb plot to board the aircraft despite warnings about his extremist views, US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, December 29th 2009 - 08:38 UTC
Argentina begun enforcing “reciprocity tax” in Ezeiza airport

All foreign visitors arriving in Argentina’s international airport of Ezeiza and who live in countries that charge the Argentines before they enter, will have to pay a reciprocity tax.
Monday, December 28th 2009 - 12:41 UTC
Demystifying the Big Apple and California; good for Creole and Hawai

New York and Connecticut rank at the bottom of the life-satisfaction states in the US while Hawaii and Louisiana figure as the top according to a new research by the UK University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US which used the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens to discover which are the best and worst states in which to live in the United States.
Monday, December 28th 2009 - 12:32 UTC
Nigerian failed terrorist exposes security porosity and lack of coordination

Al Qaida warned of a terror attack just days before a former British student allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic airliner carrying 278 passengers, it has emerged. Security services on both sides of the Atlantic are under scrutiny after it emerged Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to board the jet with explosives despite warnings of his extremism, including one from his millionaire father.
Sunday, December 27th 2009 - 06:07 UTC
UK Nigerian student allegedly responsible for Detroit’s “attempted terrorist act”

A Nigerian student reported to have links to al-Qaeda is being questioned after an attempted act of terrorism on a plane arriving in the city of Detroit, according to US officials.
Friday, December 25th 2009 - 16:40 UTC
US Senate confirms ambassadors: Shannon to Brazil and Nelson to Uruguay

United States Senate confirmed Thomas Shannon as the newly appointed US Ambassador to Brazil, after a long delay due to the veto of Republican national deputies, who have showed discontent towards US President Barack Obama's policies as regards Latin America.