BARACK OBAMA

The United States met NATO allies on Monday to outline its policy review for Afghanistan after President Barack Obama said it would contain an exit strategy and greater emphasis on economic development.

President Barack Obama said he believes systemic risks are still to be found in the financial system as he discussed an upcoming plan to be issued by his administration to take “toxic assets” off the balance sheets of financial companies in an interview.

Deep in the last stronghold of the struggling U.S. auto industry, Rosario Criscuolo says he owes the survival of his business to Toyota Motor Corp .

Starbucks, Costco Wholesale Corp and Whole Foods Market are joining forces to propose alternatives to a bill that makes it easier for workers to unionize but is strongly opposed by U.S. corporations.

The United States has told NATO allies it will back Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the next head of the alliance, NATO diplomats and a U.S. source said on Saturday.

President Barack Obama plans a significant increase in the size of the Afghan police force, U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said on Saturday.

Citigroup’s chief executive tried to reassure employees about compensation a day after House legislators passed a bill to claw back bonuses for employees earning more than $250,000 at companies which received more than $5 billion in bailout funds.

U.S. states have spearheaded moves to curb global warming and are not ready to pass the leadership baton to President Barack Obama.

Government aid requests from General Motors Corp and Chrysler may rise considerably, a top adviser to President Barack Obama's auto task force said in a Bloomberg Television interview.

Opposition fears of an unfair election in Afghanistan this year are well-founded, and a rigged poll would fuel political instability and undermine support for democracy, a top U.N. envoy has warned.

U.S. President Barack Obama sent Iran an unprecedented videotaped message on Friday offering a new beginning of diplomatic engagement after decades of U.S. hostility to the Islamic Republic.

President Barack Obama issued an unprecedented videotaped appeal to Iran on Friday offering a new beginning of diplomatic engagement to turn the page on decades of U.S. policy toward America's longtime foe.

The U.S. House of Representatives swiftly passed a bill on Thursday to recoup controversial bonuses paid to American International Group Inc as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to calm the furor by taking responsibility.

President Barack Obama is grappling with the AIG bonus furor by both accepting responsibility for the government's failure to head off the payments and blaming it on the big mess he inherited.

The global financial crisis should offer EDF Energies Nouvelles opportunities to acquire assets on favourable terms, the head of the French wind and solar power company said in an interview with Reuters.

A plan to expand a controversial U.S. ballistic-missile shield into Eastern Europe is being scrutinized as part of a 2010 budget request to be sent to Congress next month, the Pentagon's chief financial officer told Congress on Wednesday.

The head of AIG said on Wednesday he was trying desperately to prevent the company from collapsing when he allowed the payment of $165 million in bonuses that have stoked widespread public outrage.

The head of AIG said on Wednesday the cold realities of competition compelled the insurer to pay $165 million in bonuses, but angry lawmakers insisted the money belonged to taxpayers and vowed to get it back.

Japan will clear the way for the deployment of ballistic missile interceptors as it prepares for the possibility a North Korean rocket could fall toward its territory, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday.

The head of AIG said on Wednesday the cold realities of competition compelled the insurer to pay $165 million in bonuses, and acknowledged that bailout-weary Americans' patience was running thin.

Big gaps remain in a new U.N. deal on global warming meant to be agreed in December and time is running worryingly short with just 265 days left, the U.N. climate chief said on Tuesday.