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/ 25 January 2011
Healthy living pioneer Jack LaLanne’s feats included holding the world press-up record and towing boats while handcuffed.
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/ 25 January 2011
An Illinois state appeals court on Monday threw the Chicago mayor’s race into turmoil by ruling Rahm Emanuel did not qualify for the February ballot.
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/ 25 January 2011
Healthy living pioneer Jack LaLanne’s feats included holding the world press-up record and towing boats while handcuffed.
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/ 23 January 2011
<i>The Other Side of the Wind</i>, an unfinished "masterpiece" filmed by Orson Welles nearly four decades ago, is finally to reach the screen.
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/ 22 January 2011
After slip-ups with search, Street View and Android, it’s clear that Google needs control at the top — and Eris Schmidt is not the man for the job.
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/ 21 January 2011
Google co-founder Larry Page will take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt, a surprise move to make the company more nimble.
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/ 20 January 2011
A woman is now able to speak again after she had a rare operation to replace her voice box.
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/ 20 January 2011
Burglars snorted the cremated remains of a man and two dogs in the mistaken belief that they had stolen illegal drugs.
Barack Obama’s foes have muscled a symbolic Bill calling for the repeal of his overhaul of US healthcare to passage in the House of Representatives.
United States President Barack Obama delivered a strong message on US concerns over Beijing’s human rights record at a summit on Wednesday.
China and the US talked on Wednesday about China’s yuan currency being undervalued, militaries and discourse between China and the Dalai Lama.
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/ 19 January 2011
United States investment bank Goldman Sachs on Wednesday said fourth-quarter profit dropped 52% amid falling revenue.
US President Barack Obama came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to publicly speak out against Beijing’s harsh treatment of dissidents.
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/ 18 January 2011
Citigroup posted a $1,3-billion quarterly profit on Tuesday, as losses on bad loans fell.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced on Monday he is taking a new leave of absence from the technology company "so I can focus on my health".
Back in the heady days of 1970s feminism there was an argument that once women achieved political power, there would be no more war.
United States congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ medical condition was upgraded from critical to serious on Sunday, eight days after she was shot.
Facebook film <em>The Social Network</em> won four Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, including best drama, making it a front-runner in the Oscar race.
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/ 16 January 2011
Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people.
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/ 15 January 2011
Ronald Reagan, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s five years after leaving office, showed signs of the condition while still in the White House.
A United States military presence in the Pacific is essential to restrain Chinese assertiveness, Washington’s defence chief said on Friday.
Sarah Palin’s use of the phrase "blood libel" could scarcely be more incendiary, especially in a religious country like the United States.
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/ 13 January 2011
Stop the presses — completely. The world’s first iPad newspaper, the <em>Daily</em>, is prepping for launch.
According to a secret US diplomatic note, former president Thabo Mbeki was involved in the creation of Cope policy — a claim he has denied.
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/ 13 January 2011
The M&G’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five odd things you may have missed this week, including solitary trips to Mars and Big Brother US.
Obama implored Americans to cleanse their corroded democracy to fulfill the hopes of a nine-year-old girl gunned down in the Arizona shooting.
Sarah Palin on Wednesday slammed as "blood libel" the charges that overheated political rhetoric contributed to a weekend shooting rampage in Arizona.
As Haitians mark the anniversary of the devastating earthquake in 2010, hope has given way to a crushing sense of bitterness and despair.
A judge has ordered Michael Jackson’s doctor to stand trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s drug overdose death.
As John Rooney walks out on to the beach by his hotel, his sunburned neck is already redder than a Manchester United jersey.
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/ 12 January 2011
It’s like a plot out of a spy novel: a powerful government issues a secret subpoena to an internet service for access to private information.
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/ 12 January 2011
Illinois was poised to become the first US state since 2009 to abolish the death penalty after the state senate approved the ban on Tuesday.