On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden announced the first $182 Million worth of funds to be injected in form of Federal stimulus to help take the 18 projects to expand the availability of high- speed broadband network, across rural areas and other under-served communities, further.

If sources are to be believed, automobile giant General Motors' Wilmington, Delaware plant might be functioning again, but under a different guise. As America's Vice President Joe Biden sets into motion his plans of visiting the closed plant on Tuesday, it is likely that he will be announcing its reopening as a platform for building of plug-in hybrid electric cars.

Washington  - US Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Georgia and Ukraine next month for talks on boosting the former Soviet republics' economies and supporting democratic reforms, his office said Monday.

Both trips involve political sensitivities with Russia, and the visit would come shortly after US President Barack Obama travels to Moscow.

Washington/Belgrade  - US Vice President Joe Biden embarks next week on a tour of the Balkans to "refocus" on the region and "reset" uneasy relations with Serbia, the largest and central former Yugoslav republic.

Reaffirming the US commitment to Afghanistan and giving a clear indication of the topmost foreign policy priority of the Obama's administration, the vice president-elect Joe Biden arrived in Afghanistan early Saturday to conduct talks with senior political and military leaders of the country fighting against extremists.

For the post of the Vice-President's economic adviser - a new post created as the nation faces a recession - Joe Biden has picked Jared Bernstein, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, thereby providing a strong advocate for workers in the White House. Bernstein will serve in the new position called Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser.