With its imposing splendour and sumptuous glamour, few people come away unimpressed from White House — a fitting home for a man who is master of all he surveys.

US President Barack Obama has set his sights on becoming the next Secretary General of the United Nations when he leaves the White House in one year, the US media reported on Sunday.

An emotional US President Barack Obama has unveiled new restrictions on gun purchases, saying the "constant excuses for inaction" have to stop.

US President Barack Obama is to widen background checks on buyers of firearms, in a series of measures to address gun violence.

US President Barack Obama lays out the most sweeping defense yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State, but he offered no US policy shift to confront what he called a "new phase" in the terrorist threat after a mass shooting in California.

Donald Trump is full of ideas, but all his ideas are sadly full of it. This billionaire-turned-US politician has called China “the number one abuser...

Donald Trump is full of ideas, but all his ideas are sadly full of it. This billionaire-turned-US politician has called China “the number one abuser...

U.S. President Barack Obama urges Pakistan to avoid developments in its nuclear weapons programme that could increase risks and instability.

Turkey is beginning three days of mourning after two blasts at a peace rally in the capital Ankara killed at least 95 people on Saturday, the deadliest ever such attack in Turkey.

US President Barack Obama says the Russian bombing campaign in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad is driving moderate opposition underground and "only strengthening" Islamic State.

US President Barack Obama has said defeating Islamic State in Syria would only be possible if President Bashar al-Assad stepped down.

Some of the biggest names in music and politics from Beyonce to European prime ministers rallied in a concert aimed at mobilizing action to eradicate extreme poverty.

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson said no Muslim should be president of the United States.

US President Barack Obama is due to unveil what he called "the biggest, most important step we have ever taken" in tackling climate change.

In another fifteen months, the world's eyes will be riveted on the United States to see who the next US President will be.

Racism remains "a blight" on society, US President Barack Obama says, in the wake of the killing of nine African-Americans in a South Carolina church.

Barack Obama says the US is concerned China is using "sheer size and muscle" to strong-arm smaller nations in the sea row.

A closet Muslim US President strikes a nuclear deal with the Shia Muslim President of Iran that enrages the Jewish Prime Minister of Israel.

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi accuses the Iranian-allied Houthi on Saturday of staging a coup against him and appeals to the United Nations for “urgent intervention”, even as the United States evacuated its remaining forces