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.

Many in China are unconvinced Bo Xilai will serve jail time - they believe he'll take advantage of ding zui, where a hired substitute does time instead.

The world's biggest marine reserve in Antarctica may have to be given an expiry date to get countries with interests in the prized waters to agree to it.

Eleven Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for piracy charges against environmental activists.

President Barack Obama launched a ferocious political attack on hardline Tea Party Republicans yesterday.