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/ 13 September 2008
Hurricane Ike roared towards the Texas coast on Friday, threatening to drive a 6m wall of water into coastal communities and menacing Houston.
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/ 13 September 2008
An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse.
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/ 13 September 2008
The computer-chip industry on Friday celebrated the 50th birthday of the integrated circuit, a breakthrough that set the stage for the internet age.
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/ 12 September 2008
The United States escalated a major diplomatic crisis with Venezuela on Friday, imposing sanctions on aides to President Hugo Chávez.
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/ 12 September 2008
Hurricane Ike on Friday moved within 24 hours of striking the densely populated Texas coast near Houston with a possible 6m wall of water.
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/ 12 September 2008
Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin vowed on Thursday not to "blink" in pursuit of America’s "righteous" war in Iraq.
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/ 12 September 2008
For visitors, the self-governed 70 000 km2 reservation, created in 1923, is an opportunity to re-imagine America in all its mysteriousness.
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/ 12 September 2008
Hundreds of thousands of people on Thursday fled Houston, Texas, as officials warned that those who stay behind "face certain death".
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/ 11 September 2008
Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin has given party nominee John McCain a jolt in several critical election battlegrounds.
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/ 11 September 2008
Lehman Brothers, desperate for capital and fighting for its survival, unveiled a plan to shed weak assets and sell a stake in its funds business.
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/ 11 September 2008
A memorial opens next to the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on the seventh anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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/ 11 September 2008
President George Bush secretly approved orders allowing US forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan, the New York Times reports.
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/ 11 September 2008
Hurricane Ike gathered strength as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters on Wednesday on a track towardsTexas.
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/ 11 September 2008
A spat over gender politics erupted on the US presidential campaign on Wednesday with John McCain accusing Democrat Barack Obama of a sexist attack.
Milton Friedman’s fans plan to set up an
institute in his name. Not everyone approves, writes Kurt Jacobsen.
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/ 10 September 2008
Ailing investment bank Lehman Brothers announced on Wednesday an estimated $3,9-billion loss in its fiscal third quarter.
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/ 10 September 2008
Esquire has sought to brush aside the gloom pervading the print industry by unveiling a genuine first: a cover partly of electronic ink.
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/ 10 September 2008
UK-listed Old Mutual said on Wednesday it was not looking to sell its US life business after announcing a further -million in writedowns.
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/ 10 September 2008
Lance Armstrong is coming out of retirement in 2009 to raise awareness about cancer, the seven-times Tour de France winner said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 September 2008
Lehman Brothers is set to announce its ”strategic initiatives” on Wednesday that could include plans to sell British real estate assets to BlackRock.
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/ 10 September 2008
Barack Obama has launched an attack on his Republican rivals’ reformist credentials, likening their promise of change to putting "lipstick on a pig".
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/ 10 September 2008
The US and its allies pose the biggest
danger to world peace
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/ 9 September 2008
US stocks rose on Monday as investors bet Washington’s bail-out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would stabilise the US housing sector.
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/ 9 September 2008
Twelve years and 11 months after he was acquitted of the murder of his former wife, OJ Simpson’s freedom is hanging in the judicial balance.
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/ 9 September 2008
After Roger Federer proved that reports of his demise as a Grand Slam champion were greatly exaggerated, the Swiss celebrated winning the US Open.
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/ 9 September 2008
Barack Obama ripped into John McCain and Sarah Palin as never before on Monday, accusing his Republican White House foes of ”shameless” dishonesty.
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/ 8 September 2008
Tennis history will be made on Monday in the US Open men’s final, but whether a familiar face or shocking upstart wins remains to be seen.
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/ 8 September 2008
Asian and European bank shares soared on Monday after the US government took control of mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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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.