The U.S. State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida — hacking into al-Qaida websites in Yemen.

Thousands of university students marched through central Mexico City on Wednesday to protest media coverage that they say favors the candidate of the former ruling party in upcoming presidential elections.

U.S. President Barack Obama, hoping to spur U.S. innovation in the explosive field of mobile communications, on Wednesday ordered all major federal agencies to make many more of their services available on mobile phones within the next year.

U.S. President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of conservative-leaning independent groups that are raking in cash from the party faithful highly motivated to topple the Democrat.

The decision of Quebec Premier Jean Charest to get tough with student protesters and introduce a draconian new law has backfired and only served to build support for their movement, experts say.

U.S. senators investigating the Secret Service prostitution scandal said Wednesday that dozens of reported episodes of misconduct by agents point to a culture of carousing in the agency and urged Director Mark Sullivan to get past his insistence that the romp in Cartagena was a one-time mistake.

Subway workers went on strike in Brazil's biggest city on Wednesday, but ended it five hours later after halting a system used daily by more than 4 million people and snarling the city's already difficult traffic.

Asians are the most highly educated group of Americans, with more than half with bachelor's degrees or higher, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday.

A New York bride who faked having terminal cancer to swindle well-wishers into funding her dream wedding and honeymoon to the Caribbean on Wednesday was ordered to repay more than US$13,000 to her victims, prosecutors said.

The top U.S. nuclear regulator says the trouble at California's San Onofre nuclear power plant might result in new rules to guide how equipment is replaced in the nation's nuclear reactors.