President Barack Obama has postponed his trip to Asia until June so he can stay in Washington for a possible vote Sunday on his health care overhaul. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday the president is disappointed and regrets having to delay his visits to Indonesia and Australia but has told the leaders of those nations that health care ...

US President Barack Obama Thursday dramatically postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until June as he wages a vote-by-vote struggle to drive his health reform bill through Congress. The move, which will delay Obama's effort to intensify US engagement with the dynamic Asia Pacific region, was enforced by the need to woo wavering Democratic lawmakers with a knife ...

US President Barack Obama Thursday postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until a later date, as he attempts to push his health care reform bill through Congress. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would now travel to Indonesia in June, but did not say whether the president would also go on to Australia on that journey. Gibbs said ...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Thursday warned China the "world will be watching" the trial of a Rio Tinto mining executive as Beijing cautioned the sensitive case should not be "politicised". Rudd's comments looked likely to increase pressure on China over the trial of Australian national Stern Hu and three Chinese colleagues, which will take place partly behind ...