President Obama should commute US Army Private Manning’s sentence to time already served to allow immediate release, Amnesty says.

David Cameron has raised the case of Shaker Aamer with President Obama. Mr Aamer is on hunger-strike and is the last remaining British resident in Guantanamo Bay.

Barack Obama must take the lead in securing a strong global Arms Trade Treaty, 18 Nobel Peace Prize winners have said in an open letter.

American workers’ access to birth control should not be subject to their employers’ faith or beliefs, a religious liberty group has told a US federal appeals court.