On February 13 2012, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping began an historic visit to Washington DC. The man widely expected to be China's next President arrived for a four-day, cross-country tour of the United States that included stops at the White House, the Pentagon, in small-town Iowa and big-city Los Angeles......

On January 30 2012, President Barack Obama made a little history at the White House. He took part in the first-ever, completely “virtual” interview – a Google+/YouTube project that Simon produced along with the team at Feature Story News. The President was questioned directly by members of the public about a range of issues, including the...

On Sunday December 18 2011, North Korean state media announced the sudden death of the country's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong Il. The demise of the country's reclusive and mercurial leader took world powers by surprise......

On December 14th 2011, US President Barack Obama welcomed some of the last US forces serving in Iraq home to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.  The ceremony marked the formal end of the country’s nearly 9 year military operation in Iraq, which began with the ouster of President Saddam Hussein, but quickly morphed into almost a decade of controversial and...

On November 28th 2011, the Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani vowed that there would be no return to "business as usual" in his country's relationship with the United States, following an unexplained NATO air strike that took the lives of more than 25 Pakistani soldiers the previous weekend....

In November 2011, President Barack Obama travelled to the APEC Summit in Honolulu, then visited Australia, and finally the Asian Economic Summit in Bali. Declaring that "the United States is a Pacific nation", the President told audiences that he planned to repoint US foreign policy in the direction of the Asia Pacific.