Gold price hits record high amid fears over coronavirus crisis
Investors buy precious metal as concerns grow over global economy and US-China row
September 2015
British Airways plane fire investigators find key components
‘Multiple breaches of the engine case’ discovered as experts begin inquiry into incident on Boeing 777 at Las Vegas McCarran airport
July 2015
US marine treated at hospital after 4 July shark attack off North Carolina
The 32-year-old soldier suffered lacerations to his hand and arm in the incident at Surf City, the eighth such attack in the past three weeks
April 2015
Senate leaders inch closer to trade deal despite uproar from top Democrats
Finance committee poised to announce new powers to oversee trade deals – but many lawmakers fear further erosion of American jobs to Asia
January 2015
FBI hunts Colorado man in connection with explosion near NAACP office
Blast happened outside a barber shop next door to the Colorado Springs chapter of the civil rights organisation
November 2014
'I felt like a five-year-old holding on to Hulk Hogan': Darren Wilson in his own words
WNBA star Brittney Griner slightly injured after knife attack in China
October 2014
Pennsylvania suspends top judge linked to pornographic email scandal
State supreme court alleges Seamus McCaffery exchanged ‘hundreds’ of pornographic emails with lawyers in attorney general’s office
September 2014
Donald Trump retweets serial killer photo in comedian's Twitter prank
Kerry urges Syrians to fight 'Isis first' as Obama rules out combat mission – as it happened
August 2014
'A kind and gentle soul': mourners pack church to remember Michael Brown
Black teenager shot dead by police officer buried on Monday after funeral infused with anger, hope and demands for justice
July 2014
Guardian Environment Network
Barack Obama and Xi Jinping to attend major Ban Ki-moon climate summit
GM announces six more safety recalls over faulty bolts
April 2014
World in a week
World in a week: USAid funded 'Cuban Twitter' programme exposed
31 March - 4 April: Fill in on the week's winners, losers, controversies, figures, milestones and reports
March 2014
September 11 Memorial Museum to open in New York on 21 May
Officials announce an opening date for the long-awaited 9/11 Memorial Museum, dedicated to the victims of the New York terrorist attacks
Obama announces further two-year reprieve for old health insurance plans
Decision to grant extension helps defuse a political problem for Democrats in tough re-election battles this fall
Ukraine: there's no way out unless the west understands its past mistakes
Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser: Western leaders mostly paint the whole dispute as totally one-sided: it is all Russia’s fault. But the Crimea crisis is directly related to the misguided steps taken after the Soviet Union’s fall
February 2014
Obama hosts French president François Hollande on state visit
Presidents visit Monticello, the plantation home of Thomas Jefferson, as part of French leader’s official visit
January 2014
State of the Union 2014: Obama calls for 'year of action'
Barack Obama calls for 'year of action' on inequality, increases minimum wage for federal contractors to $10.10 and announces executive orders to bypass Congress
July 2013
Journalist James Risen ordered to testify in CIA leaker trial
Appeals court rules that reporters have no first amendment protection that would safeguard confidentiality of their sources
