US President seeks to assuage anger – at  home and abroad – over unmanned flight attacks

Out of America: Republicans are relishing the discomfort of a president who rarely puts a foot wrong

The IRS affair may have the greatest ramifications and strikes dark historical chords

Parents claim son had been unhappy at work and feared 'heavy hands coming after him'

Out of America: The last resting place of the 'Great Gatsby' author is a long way from the Jazz Age glamour of his novel, now back on screen

This is the land that invented 'Neighbourhood Watch', but a terrible crime has given the lie to the cosy, Rockwellian notion of the American suburbs

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" was how Winston Churchill once described the Soviet Union. Those words could equally apply to Giulio Andreotti, the man who quietly dominated Italian politics for almost half a century, as inscrutable as a sphinx and – in his own country at least – credited with even great power than that dreadful monster of antiquity.

Out of America: Security breach turns spotlight on secret plant in Tennessee where US stores uranium for bombs

Over 100 of 166 inmates now taking part in protest against indefinite detention

Out of America: 'Dubya' may have had his last spotlight moment. Now, it could be his younger brother's turn