Sources: BBC
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, celebrates his 100th birthday, becoming the first centenarian former U.S. president. 2024-10-1
The Pentagon rejects an offer from Poland's foreign ministry to "deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets" to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America" for transfer to the Ukrainian Air Force. 2022-03-9
ISIL releases purported footage of the October 2017 attack on American special forces in Tongo Tongo, Niger. 2018-03-5
British-born American Oliver Hart and Finnish Bengt Holmström win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on the science of contracts. 2016-10-10
A Texas nurse tests positive for Ebola. The health care worker is the first person to contract the disease in the United States of America, the first infection in the US to occur by secondary contact, and the second in the world sickened from exposure outside of the African continent. 2014-10-12
United States Senator John McCain travels to Syria to meet with rebel fighters and discuss with them America's possible involvement in the nation's civil war.2013-05-28
North Korea authorities announce a new nuclear weapon and long range missile test, threatening their publicly manifested arch-enemy, the United States, as their primary target. 2013-01-24
The James Bond film "Skyfall" opens in China with censored scenes, prompting criticism from fans. [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-332072-chinese-film-fans-decry-censors-cuts-in-skyfall ("Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019 2013-01-22
Citing nuclear sanctions, the United States of America deny visas to 20 out of 160 Iranian officials, of which two are ministers, impeaching diplomats' attendance at next week's United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. 2012-09-23
Nations including the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Italy and Greece evacuate their citizens from Libya. 2011-02-23