A White House official was fired after it was discovered that he was behind an anonymous Twitter account that criticised the Obama administration.

US President Barack Obama helped catch a pregnant woman when she became faint during his speech about the troubled Obamacare website.

Barack Obama has spoken to France's President Francois Hollande as a row rages over claims that a US spy agency eavesdropped on millions of phone calls of French citizens.

France wants answers from the US after it was revealed the NSA swept up - and in some cases recorded - 70.3 million French phone calls and emails over a month.

He received death threats for blowing the whistle on a multi-million dollar defence scam - now a retired US Air Force officer is living a quiet life in Central Otago.