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The US Senator John McCain has said that many families were changed after Pearl Harbor. He spoke during a commemoration ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the attack.

The owner of a giant inflatable snowman in Missouri has released CCTV footage of it being stabbed, in the hope of catching the assailant.

Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, has died aged 95. Pallab Ghosh looks back at the day he made history.

11 December 2016 Last updated at 11:05 GMT Stars of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took to the red carpet in Hollywood for the world premiere.

Patti Smith has apologised after forgetting the words to Bob Dylan’s song, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, at his Nobel Literature Prize ceremony in Stockholm. She told the audience she was “so nervous”, and was applauded before restarting the verse. The winner himself earlier announced that he was unable to …

Donald Trump has announced that his nominee for secretary of state is Rex Tillerson, the CEO of oil company ExxonMobil. Tillerson, who has close ties to Russia, must first be approved by the US Senate. The BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher reports that in picking Mr Tillerson, a Texas oilman with …

Dylann Roof, the South Carolina man accused of shooting dead nine black church-goers last year, admitted the massacre in a police video shown to the jury. He also said he spent “15 minutes” sitting inside Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston deliberating, before carrying out the attack on 17 June 2015.

The next US Secretary of State and oil executive has been friendly with Vladimir Putin in the past, so what will his appointment mean for relations between America and Russia? Arkady Ostrovsky is Russia Editor at The Economist and author of “The Invention of Russia”. (Picture: Rex Tillerson. Credit: AFP …

Image copyright AP The US unemployment rate fell to a nine-year low in November, adding to expectations that US interest rates will rise later this month. Figures from the Labor Department showed the US economy created 178,000 jobs in November, while the jobless rate fell to 4.6% from 4.9% in …

Image copyright PA US media giant 21st Century Fox has made a takeover approach for Sky that values the UK-based satellite broadcaster at £18.5bn. The proposed offer is worth £10.75 a share in cash, a premium of 36% to the closing price on 8 December. Sky shares ended 26.6% higher …