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/ 8 September 2008
The Bush administration will brace itself on Monday morning for a round of adverse publicity with the appearance of a new exposé from Bob Woodward.
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/ 8 September 2008
A year after her disastrous comeback attempt at the MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears swept the event on Sunday.
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/ 8 September 2008
Serena Williams hurled her racket skyward and bounded up and down after winning her third US Open title with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Jelena Jankovic.
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/ 8 September 2008
Joel and Ethan Coen called Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones ”the real thing” when they gave him a leading role in No Country for Old Men.
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/ 7 September 2008
The US government seizes control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an aggressive move to help the distressed US economy.
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/ 7 September 2008
Forgive Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic if this US Open is one grand-slam event he would like to forget.
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/ 7 September 2008
Plenty of fashion-conscious voters who look into Sarah Palin’s eyes like what they see — her glasses.
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/ 7 September 2008
Oprah Winfrey, America’s favourite daytime TV star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on her talk show
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/ 6 September 2008
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is to release his new film via the internet for free as a gesture to fans, he said in a statement on Friday.
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/ 6 September 2008
World number two Jelena Jankovic advanced to her first grand-slam final in the US Open on Saturday, setting up a showdown with Serena Williams.
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/ 6 September 2008
The Marlboro cigarettes empire Altria is in talks to buy the United States’s biggest maker of chewing tobacco.
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/ 6 September 2008
Fierce Hurricane Ike weakens slightly as Tropical Storm Hanna buffets the Carolinas after killing at least 529 people in Haiti.
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/ 6 September 2008
Furore surrounding John McCain’s running mate is a return to the old American politics of red state versus
blue state, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 6 September 2008
US traders returning to their desks from the Labor Day weekend sold oil after earlier falls on Monday, helping to push the price down about 8%.
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/ 5 September 2008
The hit musical Rent closes on Broadway this weekend after 12 years.
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/ 5 September 2008
United States Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday fell victim to cheeky editing of his profile on Wikipedia.
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/ 5 September 2008
US employers slashed 84 000 jobs in August and the jobless rate jumped to a five-year high of 6,1%, according to a government report.
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/ 5 September 2008
Republican John McCain cast himself as an independent-minded reformer on Thursday, and vowed ”change is coming” if he is elected president.
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/ 5 September 2008
The Americans are trying very hard to like Andy Murray. After all, he frequently speaks openly about his deep-rooted passion for the US Open.
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/ 5 September 2008
Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick put in a show-stopping performance at the US Open on Thursday night but only the fired up Serbian was left standing.
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/ 5 September 2008
Sarah Palin was on Thursday hailed as the single most important unifying force behind the Republican presidential nominee, John McCain.
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/ 5 September 2008
Among the endless allegations of thievery, subterfuge and conspiracy, there is only this certainty: North Carolina’s people take pottery seriously.
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/ 4 September 2008
Boeing’s largest labor union said its members had rejected the plane maker’s contract offer and voted to strike.
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/ 4 September 2008
Sixth seed Andy Murray roared into his first Grand Slam semifinal on Wednesday when he beat Juan Martin Del Potro, while Rafael Nadal beat Mardy Fish.
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/ 4 September 2008
Serena Williams on Wednesday fought off 10 set points to prevail in the greatest duel yet with sister Venus, a heart-stopping 7-6 7-6 victory.
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/ 4 September 2008
Hurricane Ike strengthened rapidly into an extremely dangerous category-four hurricane in the open Atlantic on Wednesday.
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/ 4 September 2008
United States Republican presidential nominee John McCain has a new attack dog. Her name is Sarah Palin, and she bites hard.
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/ 4 September 2008
As the focus last week turned to Barack Obama’s choice of running mate his other crucial partner continues to show that the Democratic nominee isn’t t
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/ 3 September 2008
Oil prices fell sharply again on Tuesday to as low as ,46 a barrel — nearly 30% down from the recent record high of just over .
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/ 3 September 2008
The iron will of Roger Federer and the burning desire of Novak Djokovic carried them into the quarterfinals of the US Open on Tuesday.
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/ 3 September 2008
Authorities on the US Gulf Coast were on Tuesday struggling to orchestrate the orderly return of nearly two million evacuees to New Orleans.
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/ 3 September 2008
Sarah Palin has dominated the Republican convention for days without making a public appearance but on Wednesday she takes the spotlight.