Hillary Clinton

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump stepped into a hornet's nest in the Sept.16 debate as rivals turned their sights on the billionaire, while Carly Fiorina showed she had earned her place on the main stage.

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old high school student in Irving, Texas who was arrested in a classroom on Monday after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has attracted admiration from a former secretary of state, a NASA scientist and even US President Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton had the right to delete messages from her personal e-mail account that she deemed non-work related while she was Secretary of State, the US Department of Justice said in a court filing.

Billionaire Donald Trump has extended his lead over the Republican presidential field, while Democratic overall frontrunner Hillary Clinton now trails underdog Bernie Sanders in the key early voting state of Iowa, polls showed on Sept.10. 

U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Sept. 9 that she has spent years trying to convince Israeli to apologize to Turkey for a deadly attack on an aid flotilla to Gaza in 2010.

"We lost what was not just a working relationship but a real bridge," Clinton said. "I spent, you know, literally years trying to get the Israelis to finally apologize to the Turks on the flotilla."

Republican frontrunner for president and brash billionaire Donald Trump pledged loyalty to the Republican Party on Sept. 3 and ruled out a third-party tilt for the 2016 election.

The US State Department released over 4,000 more of the emails former secretary of state Hillary Clinton kept on a private server on Aug. 31 and revealed that some 150 others have been retroactively classified.

A cinema in Sarajevo was too small to hold all would-be viewers on Sunday of "The Diplomat", a documentary by the American director David Holbrooke about the life of his US diplomat father.

Holbrooke is seen as the mastermind behind the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the four-year war in Bosnia.

Former US president Jimmy Carter said Aug. 12 that recent liver surgery has shown he has cancer, and that it has spread.

The 39th president, now aged 90, underwent an initially successful operation earlier this month to remove a "small mass."  

A decade of anger over the Iraq war resurfaced in the 2016 US election race Aug. 11, with Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton's campaigns trading blame about that country's continued instability.