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/ 9 February 2011
A US study suggested early stage breast cancer patients who have a small amount of lymph node removed fare as well as those with extensive surgery.
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/ 9 February 2011
Tottenham Hotspur and David Beckham’s Los Angeles Galaxy are planning closer ties that could lead to players crossing the Atlantic in both directions.
Toyota scored a victory after its electronic throttle systems were cleared of blame for defects but it still needs to restore its reputation.
Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary under George Bush, says that attempts to prosecute the ex-president are a misguided response to US public policy.
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/ 8 February 2011
Tura Satana — who gained cult status for her role in the 1965 Russ Meyer movie <i>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</i> — has died of heart failure.
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/ 8 February 2011
Tura Satana — who gained cult status for her role in <i>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</i> — died on Friday of heart failure. She was aged 72.
The United States said on Monday it will recognise South Sudan as the world’s newest nation as it moved to taking the north off a terrorism blacklist.
Activists vowed on Monday that former US president George Bush will face a torture case against him wherever he travels outside the United States.
US President Barack Obama said on Monday he wanted to lower the corporate tax rate and pay for it by eliminating tax loopholes.
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/ 7 February 2011
AOL has agreed to purchase the <em>Huffington Post</em> for $315-million, the United States internet company announced on Monday.
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/ 6 February 2011
British chef Jamie Oliver won’t be cooking another course of his reality TV show in Los Angeles schools after a filming permit was revoked.
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/ 5 February 2011
Sarah Palin said on Friday an explosion of government spending and debt under President Barack Obama had put the US on "the road to ruin".
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/ 5 February 2011
Hackers repeatedly entered the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market in the past year, but the platform was not compromised.
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/ 4 February 2011
The Empire State Building announced it would meet all its electricity need with wind power.
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/ 4 February 2011
Global food prices tracked by a UN agency hit their highest level on record in January, a problem set to worsen after a massive snowstorm in the US.
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/ 3 February 2011
Injured South African photographer Joao Silva will try on his first pair of prosthetic legs in Washington on Monday, his friend Greg Marinovich said.
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/ 3 February 2011
A survey of oyster habitats around the world released on Thursday found that they are disappearing fast and 85% of their reefs have been lost.
Millions of Americans dug out from an epic winter storm on Wednesday that buried more than a third of the United States in drifting snow.
President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies in the US Senate on Wednesday defeated a Republican push to repeal his landmark healthcare overhaul.
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/ 3 February 2011
Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld concludes in his new autobiography the war in Iraq has been worth the cost, a newspaper reports.
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/ 2 February 2011
Children aren’t the only ones being lavished with expensive birthday parties. Pet owners are also marking their dog’s special day with celebrations.
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/ 1 February 2011
News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch is to unveil <em>The Daily</em> on Wednesday, a digital newspaper for the iPad.
The White House energy and climate adviser is due to step down in the next few weeks, a departure seen as a collapse.
The trouble with being so good for so long is that it makes the bad times look even worse. Tiger Woods never looked worse at Torrey Pines.
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/ 31 January 2011
A senior human resources manager at Toshiba Corp accused a US unit of the Japanese technology company of "systemic" gender bias against women.
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/ 31 January 2011
Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo replaced Malawi’s leader as African Union chairperson on Sunday.
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/ 31 January 2011
Oscars front-runner <em>The King’s Speech</em> won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday.
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/ 29 January 2011
New Pentagon rules allowing gays to serve openly in the US military prohibit separate bathroom facilities based on sexual orientation.
Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of attempting to assassinate US Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
A return to form by Tiger Woods should give the US PGA Tour a boost as television negotiations loom and top Europeans drop United States events.
US President Barack Obama proposed a five-year freeze on some government spending and warned of painful cuts ahead on Tuesday.
UK historical drama <em>The King’s Speech</em> garnered 12 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, leading the competition for the film industry’s top honours.