US News

Los Angeles - Just in case you forgot who Ylvis are, here's a reminder, as the two Norwegian brothers appear in a special feature on "Dancing with the Stars" on US TV where they sang "What does the fox say" to tumultuous applause.

Kabul - A loya jirga or meeting of elders is planned for the third week of November by the Karzai government. The meeting would decide on whether to accept a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the U.S. to give American troops immunity from the Afghan laws.

Budapest - There are indications that the US used information gleaned from spying on its small NATO ally, Hungary, to politically influence the internal affairs of the country, it has emerged from a meeting of the National Security Committee in Budapest.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has tried to reassure Saudi Arabia that Washington shares Riyadh's goals of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran and bringing to an end the ongoing war raging in Syria.

The United States has plans to provide more than $1.5 billion worth of assistance to Pakistan for the first time since relations between the two countries grew tense following the Navy SEALs' raid into Pakistan which took out Osama Bin Laden.

Philadelphia - Policemen in Philadelphia unlawfully detained two African American pedestrians for talking to a stranger on the street - namely, saying "hi".

Like a frustrated mother with headstrong and uncontrollable children, world leaders are advising the United States as candidly as possible. Raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government before the credibility of the U.S. disappears. Period.

The United States is alarmed upon seeing that Turkey has gone into business with a Chinese missile manufacturer that it has placed sanctions on.

Goldsboro, North Carolina, January 23, 1961. A U.S. Air Force B-52 breaks-up in the sky, as two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs fall towards the earth, all by accident.

A striking resemblance between the two controversial events may provide the answer to the long awaited question - should the U.S. intervene in Syria?