US President Barack Obama sought to recapture the magic of his 2008 campaign, holding a large rally in Ohio to help struggling Democratic candidates.
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/ 16 October 2010
But amid all the political weirdness, the middle and working classes aren’t putting up a fight
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/ 14 October 2010
The multibillion-dollar porn industry in the San Fernando has been thrown into crisis after one of its performers tested positive for HIV.
Microsoft unveiled a new mobile phone operating system on Monday as it seeks to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Blackberry.
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/ 11 October 2010
US President Barack Obama has barely a week to save the Middle East peace process, only months after he relaunched it amid optimistic predictions.
Court decision lets Corporate America gang up
on floundering Democrats on the sly.
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/ 10 October 2010
US mid-term elections are on track to be the costliest to date after court rulings opened the way for donors to flood key races with cash.
Rights group Amnesty International called on the United States on Friday to set an example to other nations by abolishing the death penalty.
America’s official colors are red, white and blue but the man to watch right now is orange, writes <b>Jonathan Mann</b>.
Double-dip recession jitters won’t go away. Should we proceed with caution, or take on more risk?
Facebook has unveiled tools to give users more control over personal information and let them set up cliques of friends.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has stepped down as chief executive in order to focus on "product strategy".
The United States, inspired by a sizzling birdie run from Stewart Cink, came from behind to seize control in Friday’s unfinished fourball matches.
Experiments in 1940s saw hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners and soldiers deliberately infected to test effects of penicillin.
Tony Curtis,one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and Sixties and one of Hollywood’s busiest playboys, died at his home on Wednesday.
US approached with deal to continue building moratorium in exchange for the release of Jonathan Pollard, convicted of spying in 1987.
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/ 29 September 2010
American golfing greats Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson may be Ryder Cup teammates but they will never be friends.
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/ 29 September 2010
Barack Obama’s senior aide, a profane "piledriver", looks likely to quit so he can seek to become mayor of Chicago.
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/ 28 September 2010
BP’s bill for containing and cleaning up the oil spill has reached nearly $10-billion.
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/ 27 September 2010
One in seven Americans now live on or below the poverty line, according to figures published recently by the United States Census Bureau.
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/ 25 September 2010
A judge late on Friday granted an appeal to release actress Lindsay Lohan from jail less than nine hours after she was placed behind bars.
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/ 24 September 2010
A US grandmother was put to death by lethal injection in Virgina, the first women executed in the state for nearly a century.
Barack Obama was forced into a damage-limitation exercise on Wednesday after a new book by veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward.
Ernie Els, whose 62 global victories include two US Open triumphs and a British Open title, has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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/ 22 September 2010
African leaders said on Tuesday they could do more to meet UN goals to slash extreme poverty and urged stronger leadership among developing countries.
Billionaire Richard Branson has urged people to invest in Zimbabwe, saying the world was wrong to wait instead of helping the nation.
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/ 21 September 2010
While prosecutors examine his past as part of an investigation into doping, Lance Armstrong is sticking to a relentless public schedule.
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/ 21 September 2010
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed debt-ridden donor countries on Monday not to cut aid to the poor despite their budgetary woes.
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/ 20 September 2010
United States officials have finally declared BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico "dead", five months after a deadly oil-rig blast.
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/ 19 September 2010
Airlines’ shareholders approve tie-up, as unions fear job cuts and customers mourn end of United’s tulip logo.
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/ 19 September 2010
The launch of PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect signals a revolution in the way that we interact through the internet.
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/ 18 September 2010
Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania initiates "blackout" of all social networking sites to discover effects of multitasking.