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Brazilian official resigns over indigenous protests The Brazilian official in charge of indigenous affairs resigned Friday amid protests by natives locked in land feuds with white farmers and opposing construction of a huge dam in the Amazon.

09 June 2013

Kerry renews $1.3 bn annual military aid for Egypt Secretary of State John Kerry last month approved $1.3 billion in annual US military aid to Egypt, despite concerns over democratic progress by the country's new government.

08 June 2013

Pussy Riot rockers in US to fight for jailed bandmates Two members of the Russian feminist punk-rock band Pussy Riot on Friday urged the United States to help free their bandmates jailed last year for an anti-government protest performance.

08 June 2013

Obama, Xi urge new relationship in first summit Throwing formality aside at a desert retreat, Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping called Friday for a new approach to forge relations between the US superpower and a rising China.

08 June 2013

Arm Syrian rebels or risk rise of extremism: McCain The United States must deepen its engagement in Syria by equipping the rebels or setting up a safe zone to protect the opposition.

08 June 2013

New York readies major Le Corbusier show Nearly half a century after his death, New York's Museum of Modern Art will pay homage to celebrated French architect and designer Le Corbusier in a major exhibit that opens next week.

07 June 2013

Internet titans deny opening doors to US spies Apple, Facebook and other Internet titans denied Thursday opening doors for US intelligence agencies to mine data from their servers.

07 June 2013

Canada accuses Nestle, Mars of chocolate price-fixing Canadian authorities charged Nestle, Mars and a network of independent wholesale distributors on Thursday over an alleged criminal conspiracy to fix the prices of leading chocolate bars.

07 June 2013

Apple clashes with Amazon in e-book case Apple attorneys in the US antitrust case on e-books went on the offensive Thursday, attacking the credibility of government witnesses and seeking to debunk key elements of the government's case.

07 June 2013

US panel wants diabetes drug restrictions eased Independent experts urged US regulators Thursday to reduce restrictions on GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes drug Avandia, banned in Europe over heart attack risk concerns.

07 June 2013

Chile observatory discovers 'comet factory' A "dust trap" surrounding a young star could help explain how planets are formed.

07 June 2013

Anxiety over student loans as US lawmakers play politics Recent Northeastern University graduate Greg Dube hopes to launch a bright engineering career soon, but like many young Americans, he is haunted by a looming financial burden: some $150,000 in student loan debt.

07 June 2013

Global cybercrime ring targeted by Microsoft and FBI Microsoft on Wednesday said it teamed with the FBI to disrupt armies of hacked computers used to commit more than a half-billion dollars in financial fraud around the world.

07 June 2013

Jackson daughter hospitalized after suicide bid Late pop icon Michael Jackson's daughter Paris was rushed to a California hospital Wednesday after trying to commit suicide.

06 June 2013

Google terminal in works at Silicon Valley airport Google jets are getting a home in an $82-million private terminal being built to cater to executives coming and going from Mineta San Jose International Airport in Silicon Valley.

06 June 2013

US drops plan to allow pocket knives on flights The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), bowing to a chorus of outrage led by flight attendants, abandoned Wednesday its plan to allow pocket knives in carry-on baggage.

06 June 2013

China's Xi sees new 'golden era' in Latin America President Xi Jinping on Wednesday heralded the dawn of a new "golden era" for Latin America during a visit to Mexico and urged the region to hitch its economic development to China's solid growth.

06 June 2013

US girl needing lung put on transplant list A US judge ordered Wednesday that a dying 10-year-old be transferred to an adult waiting list for a lung transplant, said a lawmaker who has been lobbying for the girl.

06 June 2013

Toll from US tornadoes climbs to 20: officials At least 20 people were killed by a series of tornadoes that swept through the Midwestern US state of Oklahoma last week, including seven children.

06 June 2013

NSA presses on with Bush-era phone monitoring: report The US National Security Agency, during the Barack Obama administration has pursued wide-scale monitoring of the telephone records of millions of Americans.

06 June 2013

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