US President Barack Obama has cut the defence budget for 2013, which includes funding for a shift in strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific.

Lockheed Martin, the US government’s top IT provider, said on Saturday it had thwarted "a significant and tenacious attack" on its systems.

PRESIDENT George W Bush’s administration has moved to protect Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe from a civil suit in the United States accusing him of ordering murder, torture…